Tension in the Chamber between Matteo Renzi and Ignazio La Russa during declarations of the vote of confidence in the budget law. It all starts with the request from the leader of Viva Italy to the President of the Senate to impose silence in the Chamber during the speech. The Russian responds that the background noise is normal and asks Renzi to avoid teaching. At this point, Renzi blurts out: “You, comrade La Russa, must get used to respecting the opposition in this chamber.” The president of the Senate responds: “And you must get used to having the courtesy of not running away from the truth.” Renzi counters by alluding to the epithet ‘comrade’: “I thought I paid you a compliment.” And he adds about the noise in the chamber: «The president doesn’t notice noise, it’s typical of his advanced age…».
But Fratelli d’Italia doesn’t let the ‘joke’ about age go unnoticed. «Today Renzi completely lost his line when he realized that, while he was speaking in his declaration of vote, the center-right senators, instead of contesting him, were not paying attention to his speech and, even without bothering them, they were (as the poet) ‘occupy yourself with other matters. The thing was intolerable for him and that’s why he proceeded with insults to the representatives of the majority, low-level rudeness towards President La Russa, guilty (according to him) of not forcing the chamber to listen to him in religious silence; and then an intemperate protest against a rule that he believes affects his personal economic interests. But no one fell into the trap of getting involved in a verbal fight with the former prime minister. Perhaps a harder blow for him than those reserved for him by voters”, a position taken by the president of the senators of the Brothers of Italy, Lucio Malan.
Then it was also the turn of Antonella Zedda, deputy leader of the group of FdI senators, to observe: «If a parliamentarian from the Brothers of Italy had offended a president of the Senate with a different political background due to his age, an uproar would understandably have occurred. But it couldn’t have happened, because Fratelli d’Italia knows how to respect institutions and people. Instead, it was Renzi today who made a nasty joke against La Russa, and yet not a word of condemnation of Renzi nor of solidarity with La Russa came from the opposition. This demonstrates the level of brutality to which a left that would like to give moral licenses to others is reduced.”
Source: IL Tempo
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