National security can't be entrusted to Musk says Fratoianni

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 6 - Italian Left (SI) and Green_left Alliance (AVS) leader Nicola Fratoianni said Monday that Italian national security can't be entrusted to Elon Musk amid reports, which Premier Giorgia Meloni has denied, that the SpaceX owner has reached a deal to hand over the management of Italy's telecoms security systems to his Starlink satellite programme.
    "A negotiation or exclusive discussions between the Italian government and Elon Musk's company are disturbing: entrusting the military security of our country to a private company of one of the most powerful and rich men in the world could be a resounding mistake," said Fratoianni.
    That same man who is today one of the closest advisors to the future US president and who has been organizing and weaving the web of the extreme right in all European countries for months.
    It cannot be done, we cannot accept it.
    "To the concerns for the independence and security of Italy, are added - continued the leader of SI - other concerns, of an industrial nature: this assignment to Musk would be the definitive leap in the privatization of Italy, in terms of network and communication infrastructures after the sale of the Telecom network to the American fund KKR.
    "All at the hands of the sovereignist Meloni, the same one who in her inauguration speech in Parliament had given centrality to the creation of an Italian cloud (an important and central theme) to remove the sensitive data of the government, administrations and Italian citizens from the clutches of digital capitalists.
    "After just a couple of years, Meloni contradicts herself and her promise. We have become accustomed to the lies of Meloni and associates, no surprise. The problem is that this lie has to do with national security - concluded Fratoianni - and the democracy of the country. So they must immediately come to Parliament to explain what is happening". (ANSA).