Centre-left opposition Democratic
Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein on Tuesday called Premier
Giorgia Meloni a coward and said she was fleeing from the Lower
House where a no-confidence motion in Tourism Minister Daniela
Santanchè was being debated.
The motion against Santanchè after she was recently indicted for
alleged false accounting at her former Visibilia publishing
company, is expected to be easily defeated. The minister has
said she won't stand down even if she is also indicted in
another case seen as more serious, that of allegedly defrauding
social security and pensions agency INPS over COVID redundancy
funds.
"Meloni has been a world champion of requests for resignations
and today she deserted this chamber, how can she not be ashamed
of her inconsistency, how can she not realize how cowardly her
attitude of constantly fleeing from this chamber and from
reality is?," said Schlein.
"Where has the prime minister hidden? Maybe she is recording
another video, a contribution to send to a convention among
chainsaws and Nazi salutes".
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