A fight broke out in the Senate chamber during the discussion of the budget bill. In his speech, Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi criticized Forza Italia’s abstention on the ratification of the ESM.
“This betrays your history – said the former prime minister – and the pro-European preferences of Silvio Berlusconi. With your abstention in the ESM (and I understand Gasparri’s embarrassment) you betray the political legacy of Silvio Berlusconi”.
Maurizio Gasparri’s scream
When questioned, the Forza Italia senator shouts at the Italia Viva leader: “Coward, go ac*gare.” An expression that is (unfortunately) very common in the semi-circles of the two houses of Parliament, but echoes in the hall of the family-owned building, thanks to those inexplicable moments of silence created in crowded places. At this point it starts making noise. Justifiably angry, Matteo Renzi interrupted his speech by asking the presidency to make up for the time stolen by his colleague’s “rudeness and impoliteness”. On the sidelines of the session, the former prime minister told his followers: “I made a political intervention, Gasparri is a completely rude person,” he said.
Borghi (IV) “A serious matter”. And Gasparri wants a video exam
Enrico Borghi (Iv): “The incident was serious, he said – as Enrico Borghi, the group leader of Italia Viva, took the podium -. It was clearly heard during Matteo Renzi’s declaration of votes, and he felt it throughout the House, Senator Gasparri’s insult towards Senator Renzi “A statement. Therefore, I ask the President of the Senate to intervene.” At this point Ignazio La Russa assured the Renzian senators: “I understand very well”, replied the Senate president. “President Renzi requested that the television footage be reviewed, and we will do so, and if Renzi deems it appropriate, he may intervene at the end of the session for a personal matter. But we will still conduct the review for evaluation.” every possible precaution,” he concluded.
Apology from Gasparri
A public apology soon followed, as is often the case in such cases. Speaking in Parliament, Gasparri said: “I apologize for some inappropriate sentences”, but I do not apologize for having to tell the truth, because ‘I will not vote for the ESM reform because we do not allow others to dictate’, Silvio Berlusconi said in December 2020, Council deputy president and best-known European Antonio Tajani, secretary of the pro-government Forza Italia, has said several times that the ESM does not work this way due to the lack of democracy, saying: “The control of the European Parliament is needed.” That’s why we abstain here. “So, as we apologize to those who should have them, we will not take a posthumous lecture on Berlusconism from anyone in this room.”
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