MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “I reiterated, attacking the Pope is not useful, is not intelligent, is not appropriate and is offensive. Who governs deals with government and let the spirit, souls and well-being of people take care of the Holy Believe. If one believes or does not believe. It is clear that when you attack the Pope or Meloni for me you are to be condemned in one case or another. It seems clear and obvious to me, I do not have to make ten statements a day to repeat these things.” Thus Vice-Premier and Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Matteo Salvini, commenting on the statements made yesterday by US President Donald Trump on the Pope and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, during a press conference on the Remigration summit in the Milan headquarters of the League in via Bellerio. “It is clear that yesterday I met President Meloni in Verona. We talked to Verona about everything,” he replied to those who asked him for his lack of official communication on Trump’s statements. “There is total support for government activity and the President of the Council from all points of view and all fronts.” According to Salvini, in the distance of the Italian government from Trump’s statements, “there is nothing political. If Trump attacks the Pope wrong, if Trump attacks the Italian government wrong, but the problem is not ours, the problem is his.”.
“The closeness to the United States was and remains, regardless of the presidents. We are firmly anchored to the alliance with the free, democratic and Western countries – said Salvini –. Relations with the United States and America are and will continue to be positive, it is not some style fall of these hours to question the relationship between Italy and the United States.” However, “I hope they stop the attacks on the Pope and Meloni because, at a delicate moment internationally, if there is a government attentive to good relations not only political but also economic, cultural with the United States is the Italian one – the vicepremier continued – . But when attacking the Holy Father not only attacks Italy, attacks some billion people in the world. The problem of the world is not the Holy Father but the Islamic fanaticism in Iran, there is in Lebanon, there is in some European capitals.” “So I realize that the American president let the Holy Father stand,” he concluded.
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