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“The government’s position is very clear, the centre-right is a very cohesive majority, as demonstrated in the only way in which the cohesion of a majority can be demonstrated, and that is in the speed of implementation and the clarity of implementation of the line of a government”. The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in an interview with Agorà, broadcast tomorrow morning on Rai 3, dampens the controversy regarding the state of health of the majority, in light of the words of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini on the elections in Russia. “What we have done in this year and a half with the speed with which we have done it, and the clarity we have demonstrated in foreign policy – he adds – all this speaks of a cohesive majority. And I believe that the point is always this: that is, it doesn’t matter how broad the field is, but what matters is how cohesive and compatible that field is, how much it has clear answers to give to citizens and to represent abroad. And Italy with its centre-right majority is clearly doing this.”

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But what had the leader of the League said? “They voted and we take note of it. When a people votes they are always right, wherever they vote”, the words of Deputy Prime Minister Salvini regarding the vote in Russia, pronounced on the sidelines of a meeting in Milan, which unleashed a storm on the Northern League leader. “The elections – Salvini said again, after the official victory of Vladimir Putin with 87.2% of the votes – are always good, both when one wins and when one loses them. When I lose them I try to understand where I made a mistake and how to do better next time. There have been elections and therefore we take note of the vote of Russian citizens, hoping that 2024 will be the year of peace.” Shortly after, the League corrected its aim with an official note: “In Russia they voted, we do not give a positive or negative opinion of the result, we take note of it and work (we hope all together) for the end of the war and the return to peace. With There’s nothing to celebrate when there’s a war going on.”

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The other deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani, engaged in the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, replied: “Foreign policy is made by the Foreign Minister”, and again “the elections were characterized by strong, even violent pressure. Navalny was excluded from these elections with a murder, we saw the images of soldiers at the polls, it doesn’t seem to me that it is an election that respects the criteria that we respect”, underlines Tajani.