Premier Giorgia Meloni said Saturday
she was very well and doing her job as usual a day after
splitting from her eight-year partner and father of their seven
year old daughter, TV journalist Andrea Giambruno, a day after a
string of lewd comments and apparent admission of infidelity
with female colleagues were broadcast on another Berlusconi
channel.
"I am well, I am very well, I am doing my job as always", said
Meloni meeting the press in Cairo on the sidelines of the peace
summit, responding to those who asked her how much it cost her
to make this trip in the aftermath of her separation from
Giambruno in the wake of a string of gaffes culminating in him
talking of threesome and foursomes off air and apparently
admitting the affair.
Challenged that there was also a political side to her post
announcing their separation after they had parted ways "some
time ago", she replied: "There is no political side".
She stressed: "I don't know what is not clear about the fact
that I don't want to talk about this anymore."
Giambruno, 42, met Meloni, 46, in 2015, and they have a
daughter, seven year old Ginevra.
Before his off-air sexist remarks on Retequattro were broadcast
by satirical show Striscia la Notizia on Canale 5, Giambruno
also got into hot water by telling women they should not get
drunk if they wanted to avoid getting raped, by describing
migrant movements as "transhumance", and by denying climate
change and telling the German health minister that he should
stay at home in the Balck Forest if he found it too hot in
Italy.
Meloni's critics have latched onto the split to renew criticism
of her self-characterisation as a Christian mother and her
campaigning on a God, motherland and family platform, with gay
rights activists also saying she and her ruling rightwing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party should stop policies against the
registration of gay marriage and surrogacy outside Italy.
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