The following video is a brief interview with Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the party Fratelli d’Italia. The occasion was an anti-EU rally in Rome of several center-right parties, including the Lega Nord (Northern League).

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is an article about the same event from RAI News, also translated by Fousesquawk:

“Sovereign Italy” Rome: At the Fratelli d’Italia Demonstration, Salvini: “Napolitano traitor to Italy” Fratelli d’Italia organizes a political demonstration in Rome to confirm the will for elections as soon as possible. Salvini and a delegation of Forza Italia participate in the initiative. Harsh words against Napolitano from the leader of the (Northern) League January 28, 2017 “Giorgio Napolitano is a traitor to Italy, who merits another treatment and not a cushy chair of senator for life.” Matteo Salvini, leader of the Northern League, said that from the stage of a demonstration by Fratelli D’Italia (Brothers of Italy). The League is in the arena “not to participate, but to win”, also with the center-right, the leader of the League continued. “Nobody closes the doors in the face of anybody”, but he who betrays is no longer put on the list, event if Father Pius: Alfano, Verdini and Casini need to go home.” “Open doors for a coalition as wide as possible, but with a precise program that says,, ‘First the Italians’, and I say to Silvio Berlusconi: A country that doesn’t control its currency is not sovereign. It is a slave.” The Leader of Fratelli d’Italia: “FI (Forza Italia) don’t lose your bearings.” Giorgia Meloni, leader of FdI, stressed that her party would like to go to the elections as soon as possible, and about Forza Italia Meloni says: We have invited FI to this demonstration, Brunetta has been sent to represent the party, Toti would have come anyway., there is Santanche… And especially there are many voters who side with us that FI doesn’t lose its bearings. And she confirms, “We want a coalition as wide as possible, but tied coherently to the program. This demonstration is the occasion to invite FI to choose which side it is on, with the stupid or with the people.” The next step would be the primaries of the center-right: “I believe they are a valid way to involve the citizens who want to count” and they are carried out in (the spirit of) collaboration and not supremacy. (When) the standard bearer of a squadron stands out, it makes fools of the squadron”. Obviously, the inescapable condition is to go quickly to the ballot boxes. Elections immediately, the word must pass to the Italians: There are no more excuses, also after the pronouncement of the Consulta, for maintaining a government not chosen by anybody. It is the fourth government in a row not chosen by anyone. Enough with the palace games, with the turncoats, with governments that take care of the interests of everyone except the Italians.

Representatives of Forza Italia such as Toti, Brunetta. Santanche, among others, also participated in the demonstration. Brunetta: United we win, Divided Renzi wins Renato Brunetta, from the stage of DEL demonstration, pointed his finger at the division of the center-right (his) speech interrupted by numerous whistles from the public. The group leader of FI in the Camera said, “The center-right is in the plural. Whoever divides the center-right wants the government of Renzi. I want Renzi at home, we have sent him home with the referendum. But if we continue with our errors, we let him win, if you don’t want that, you have to want a united center-right. He who doesn’t want a united center-right, takes his responsibility.” That was Renato Brunetta in Rome. During his speech there were numerous whistles from the public. Toti also points to unity and defends Berlusconi on FB “This crowd knew how to gather the wind of change that is spiraling everywhere in Europe, we are not all the same, we don’t think in the same way, but we share the same values. I believe that this is the way to return to winning, today we must begin to construct a small step forward, we must begin to say that the center-right can be a candidate to govern this country, and we must do it as we have done for these months, winning so many battles.” That’s according to the political adviser to Silvio Berlusconi, Giovanni Toti, from the stage of the center-right (demonstration) at Piazza San Silvestro in Rome. Moreover, on Facebook he spoke of never-ending persecution against Berlusconi. “The right has always foreshadowed the principle of ‘ne bis in idem’ (Latin: Not twice in the same thing). For Berlusconi, they have invented the third, fourth; absolution is not contemplated. A persecution without end.”

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