“I won’t vote for her again”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with President Biden this week and called for an end to illegal immigration, amid criticism from voters that he had deviated from the tougher stance he advocated during the campaign.

“I was just at the White House reading the comments below. [my reporting]Stefano Vaccara, founder of La Voce di New York and Italpress U.S. political correspondent, told Fox News Digital: “Many voters who supported her are now saying, “I don’t want her anymore.” “I will not vote,” he wrote. He said that’s because “she gets along well with Biden.”

“I mean, you were in a position in a far-right party… and you’re the prime minister of a NATO country and you go to the Oval Office… you can no longer speak like you used to speak. “I did,” he claimed. “She’s completely changed, so now…if someone woke up today and listened to her speech and the way she spoke, they’d say, ‘Oh, no.’ [they would] I think she’s centrist or centre-left. ”

Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, met with Biden on Friday to discuss a number of foreign policy issues, including Ukraine, Gaza and immigration. During her campaign, Vaccara portrayed Meloni as a staunch anti-globalist, but after the national conservative, right-wing populist Italian Brothers party won the election, she became more of a globalist on most issues. took a position. .

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“There’s a very famous phrase she said during her campaign: ‘I’m Giorgia. I’m a mother. I’m a Catholic and I’m a patriot,'” Vacara said. It seemed like a sign of being very conservative.”

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“In foreign policy, when she was in the opposition, she was really anti-European, saying, ‘He’s great.’ [on] Bureaucracy, when I’m in government, you know what I’m going to do’ – you know, all these things,” he explained.

But after coming to power, “she became a very stable partner, both for Europe and for America, so she didn’t do any of the things she was saying when she was complaining,” Vacara said. he said.

German outlet DW questioned how “radical” Meloni’s stance has been since taking power in Rome, repeating none of the “more radical slogans she favored during the campaign”. I pointed out that it was not.

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DW said Meloni had sought to shape domestic policy around “strict and conservative family ideals”, but economic policy “more or less inherited” those enacted by his predecessor, and European policy ” He acknowledged that he had proven to be “mostly moderate.”

Thomas Corbett Dillon, a US-based political commentator and former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, warned that Meloni’s change in stance would continue to alienate voters, adding that he would become more anti-rebellious at election time. I expect him to return to his European, hard-right rhetoric. But it’s too little, too late.

“The people elected her to be Italy’s Trump. It was supposed to be Italy first, but instead she became immigration and Ukraine first,” Corbett Dillon told Fox News Digital. “Europeans are completely fed up with being ignored by globalists who promise us everything but deliver nothing.”

“She abandoned all right-wing policies and jumped into bed with the globalists,” he said. “If she had done any of the things she promised to do, if she had done any of the things the Italian people elected her to do, she wouldn’t even come close to Joe Biden’s girlfriend. I guess.”

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“At election time she will suddenly move to the right, but the Italian people will see through that,” he added.

During the meeting, Mr. Meloni and Mr. Biden reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression, and Mr. Biden also agreed to join the G7 and European Union, which began in January, to strengthen support for Ukraine. He praised Meloni’s leadership in the Union.

Most strikingly, Meloni said he supports the US role in mediating the Gaza crisis, reaffirming Israel’s commitment to its right of self-defense “in accordance with international law” and “increasing the provision of lifesaving humanitarian assistance.” It emphasized the urgent need.” across Gaza, according to a statement from the White House.

Mr. Meloni has also continued to maintain large numbers of migrants on the Italian border in the media, with stricter immigration laws, restrictions on sea rescue charities, and plans to build migrant reception camps in Albania to increase illegal immigration from North Africa. He repeatedly promised to crack down on the issue.

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Last year, the prime minister lied about his age to benefit from a “protection system” for foreigners legally residing in Italy and unaccompanied minors if they were deemed a threat to public order or national security. announced that immigrants would be deported.

But at the end of the year, Meloni told reporters at a press conference that although the EU’s agreement on migration and refugee treaties had partially improved the situation in Italy and other refugee-receiving countries, there was still no solution to the growing number of migrant arrivals. He said that it should not happen.

“What we need to do in Africa is not charity,” she says. “What we need to do in Africa is to build cooperation and serious strategic relationships, where we are equals, not predators.”

Meloni also stressed the need to “defend the right not to migrate…and this will be realized through investment and strategy.”

Italy has been proposed in Africa with the so-called Mattei Plan, named after Enrico Mattei, the founder of state oil and gas giant Eni, which aims to address the development of education and training, agriculture, health, water and energy. The following is an overview of the current strategy.

The aim is to turn Italy into an energy hub for transporting natural gas supplies from Africa to the rest of Europe, and Italian energy giant Eni will play a key role in the initiative.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Original article source: Meloni’s shift from anti-globalist to pro-European makes Biden’s friend furious at supporters: ‘I won’t vote for her anymore’