THE League of Matteo Salvini launched, a week before the European elections, an attack against the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.

In more detail, during yesterday’s anniversary of the Italian republic, the Italian president, addressing the ambassadors of foreign countries who are in the country, emphasized, among other things, that “our society is part of the wider community of the European Union, to which we decided to give life, together with the other free peoples of our continent.”

“In a few days, we will reaffirm its sovereignty, with the election of the new European Parliament,” he added.

Commenting on this statement, the Lega senator Claudio Borghi he underlined that, “if Mattarella really believes that the sovereignty belongs to the European Union, and not to Italy, for reasons of cohesion he should resign, because his role would lose all importance”.

In the same vein, yesterday, Sunday, was added the position of the secretary of the League and vice-president of the Italian government, Matteo Salvini, who, in a broadcast of the public television channel Rai Tre, said:

“Today is the celebration of Italians, of unreigned democracy, not of European sovereignty. We have a president of the Republic because there is a despotic democracy. I see Europe as sovereign states that make up a whole, but national sovereignty is of key importance. I will never accept a European “overworld”, in which power is held by those with money.”

These statements by Borghi and Salvini caused widespread confusion. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the leader of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani decided to separate his position and in an interview with the private radio network Rtl he answered a related question:

“We are Italian and European, this is our history and identity.” According to a large part of the Italian press, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni allegedly contacted Salvini by phone, asking him to proceed immediately with a corrective statement.

A while ago, indeed, the leader of the League, speaking again on a Rai show, emphasized:

“There is no “warlike mood”, the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella enjoys my respect, as well as my party.” It remains to be seen whether the whole case has really been closed or whether, during this last week before the European elections, the League will decide to raise the tone significantly again.