'Trump chosen by citizens, we'll work together' - Crosetto

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 6 - Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on Wednesday congratulated the new president of the United States Donald Trump with a post on X.
    "US citizens have voted and have chosen their president", Crosetto wrote.
    "It is Donald Trump, who obtains a victory both with the electoral college and the popular vote, which didn't happen when he won the last time against Hillary" Clinton.
    "To him, to the new future Government best wishes for a good job, with the certainty that we will work together, as Italy and the US have always done, to defend out common values of democracy and freedom". And the Defence minister also wrote that, "over a year and a half ago, I told NATO and the EU, during Defence sessions, that we should have prepared for the new scenario opened by a possible victory" of Donald Trump.
    "Which one? We will have to show firstly that we want and are willing to guarantee our security and that we don't expect American citizens and the government to think about it, at their expense. "We will have to entrust to the US, for many years to come, the deterrence capability through the alliance of which we are part, NATO, but we will have to take charge of our part of Defence, first of all at a national and collective" levels, the defence minister wrote on X. (ANSA).