The President of the League, Party of Far Right Italian, who, there is little, showed his proximity to the Russian President, went to the Ukrainian border. His initiative turned into a public humiliation session.
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But how could he embark on such a foolish initiative? Tuesday, March 8 afternoon, Matteo Salvini, President of the League (Italian far-right), arrived in front of the Petite Polish station in Przemysl, about fifteen kilometers from the Ukrainian border, flanked by a small group of representatives of humanitarian organizations. On site, he met the mayor of the city, Wojciech Bakun (nationalist right), who, in less than two minutes, inflicted a memorable public humiliation session.
Speaking in Polish in front of a cloud of journalists, the mayor begins by thanking humanitarian organizations that help his city respond to the humanitarian emergency (more than 40,000 refugees, he, have been welcomed in Twenty-four hours), along with a serious and concentrated salvini. Then he comes out of his jacket a white t-shirt with the effigy of the Russian president and throws, without a look for his visitor, who breaks down in seconds: “I learned this morning that you were going to visit Przemysl. I consider This as an insolence on your part, so I decided to offer you a jersey to the effigy of your friend Putin and invite you to visit a refugee center in which are thousands of victims of this war. “Sounded The league leader tries to stumble he’s “came to help”, but he has no other solution than to retreat, under the hoots.
True to the permanent agitation strategy that has been successful for years (or simply incapable of acting otherwise), Matteo Salvini had been employed, since the beginning of the Russian aggression of Ukraine, To display his rejection of the war, seeking in a few words to forget the years of praise in Pouinian power. The images where it appears smiling on the red square, dressed in a white t-shirt to the glory of the chef of the Kremlin? The affirmations that Vladimir Putin was “the greatest head of state” of the moment? Repeated support for the annexation of Crimea by Russia, in 2014? The charges of Russian financing of the League, who have brought a tough blow to its popularity in the summer of 2019, while it was up to the highest in surveys? Rather than being discreet, hoping for better days, the Chairman of the League tried to forget all this by setting up an unlikely convoy for the peace that no one asked him.
Disastrous happening
On March 2nd, when he announced his departure for the Ukrainian border, he even sought to avail himself of the support of the community of Sant’Egidio and the Caritas (the Italian equivalent of the Catholic rescue), this that the two humanitarian organizations immediately denied. The Italian Embassy in Ukraine itself sought to dissuade it from undertaking this trip, but nothing has done. The result is this disastrous and perfectly avoidable cappening, which is likely to be expensive in Matteo Salvini, more and more contested internally and free fall in the surveys.
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