Melons with his head in his jacket on the WSJ. The Prime Minister: «I covered my face with irony, I didn’t want to intimidate»

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The photo of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Chamber, hiding her head in her suit jacket during the debate and while talking about the crisis in Gaza was published on the WSJ. Meloni spoke on the eve of the European Council meeting in Brussels.

«Don’t Look at Me With Your Disturbing Eyes», we read in the photo published on the WSJ. This is how the phrase pronounced by the leader of the Greens, Angelo Bonelli, who was speaking in the chamber at that moment, was translated. “Don’t look at me with those disturbing eyes,” he said.

Bonelli: Glassy eyes and an unthinkable reaction from Meloni

«I couldn’t imagine that Giorgia Meloni would react that way», hiding her head in her jacket, the leader of the greens Angelo Bonelli (Avs) confided in an intervention on Un giorno da Pecora. Bonelli said he was amazed by the prime minister’s reaction: «I had never seen something like that, not even when I went to school….That’s Parliament, I might have said something out of place but could that be the reaction? The photo (by Giorgia Meloni, ed.) was not only published Wall Street Journal, went around the world. And it’s not just a problem for him, but for Italy. We risk making ourselves look like caricatures.” To those who asked him to better define the prime minister’s “disturbing” look, he replied: “Glass eyes that looked… the eyes of a person evidently not interested in what I was saying but in declassifying it.”

All of Meloni’s expressions in the Chamber

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«Am I intimidated? No, never, but I invite the prime minister to adopt an institutional posture”

«Am I intimidated? No. The problem isn’t even the excuses – continued Bonelli -, the point is that when the prime minister comes to the chamber, she must be the prime minister and have an institutional posture, which she doesn’t have. Yesterday in the Chamber I was talking about serious, serious issues, the tragedy of Gaza, and the frankly annoying facial expression of the Prime Minister is something that is not seen in any hall of parliament, in Europe and in the world. Grimaces, jokes, glances while talking about relevant issues… no. You may or may not agree but you listen then you respond. However, I don’t feel intimidated, I have never been intimidated by anyone, but I invite you to assume an institutional posture when you come to the Chamber.”

Meloni: «In the Chamber I covered my face with irony, I didn’t want to intimidate»

The prime minister returned to what happened in the Chamber. «I note the uproar from various opposition members because to the words of the leader of the Greens Bonelli addressed to me in the Chamber, “don’t look at me with a disturbing look”, I responded by ironically covering my face so as not to arouse anxiety in my colleague – he wrote on Instagram, reporting the photo even ended up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal -. I don’t know what he meant by “disturbing look”, but I apologize to my colleague and to anyone else who may possibly feel intimidated.”