Many and inevitable discussions. Three days ago, on February 12, Fdi’s Veneto district councilor, Joe Formaggio, posted a photo of him holding a machine gun on the district council’s Facebook profile with the caption: “I went to the Verona hunting fair representing the region, always looking for hunters and guns. next to the lobby”.
An underappreciated gesture even on social media. Many criticized the choice to use a corporate profile for such messages. “I don’t want to believe that the Veneto District Council feels represented by this message,” wrote a citizen of Veneto. The news echoed in Rome today, sparking a political debate in which the opposition attacked the district councillor’s “violent and dangerous” election. Formaggio made the headlines many times in the past, from his words “If a thief breaks into my house I’ll shoot him in the head, sometimes dead is good” to his anti-Roma decree. He even forbade them to stay in the village.
“Representatives of institutions should always be honest and not in the service of lobbies or in the interests of groups that support the means of death. As party leader, I turn to Giorgia Meloni to clarify whether the Brothers of Italy is a party. I’m going to turn to Giorgia Meloni for a fair like the one held in Verona,” he said. accompanied by weapons and as a mother. Fratelli d’Italia cannot transform our country into a new Far West.” Days put a question to Minister Piantedosi to ask that measures be taken to ban the entry of minors at the Verona Arms Fair, and he is today the governor of Venice. He resorts to intervention: “Zaia’s silence is deafening: from councilman Joe Formaggio and these numerous inappropriate attempts by him”.
“Does the Veneto Region share Formaggio’s numbers and positions? It is appropriate for Zaia, or whoever it is, to distancing himself openly from Formaggio,” insists Action-Italia Viva senator Daniela Sbrollini.
Jonatan Montanariello (Pd) says, “Formaggio’s advertisement supporting the gun lobby is serious. It’s serious that the Regional Council is spreading photos with guns in hand.” and tragedies don’t sell for free, a district councilor should make a similar ad in favor of this lobby. a question of civilization, not of political affiliation. Propaganda, with institutional sanction, the use of weapons is an incitement to barbarism. I will present a question to find out how this very serious lapse is possible”.
Source: Today IT
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
