French and German leaders who lost
the Euroepan elections cannot impose choices and isolate Italy's
Giorgia Meloni who on the contrary scored a big win and whose
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group should replace
the Greens as new entry into the future European Parliament
majority, Deputy Premier, Foreign Minister and centre-right post
Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) leader Antonio Tajani said amid
reports that several countries were "shocked" at alleged French
and German attempts to isolate Meloni in the post-election
jockeying for the EU's top jobs.
"Yesterday I was not at the meeting in Brussels but certainly
there is always an attempt to impose choices on the part of some
forces that lost the elections, to impose the law of the loser",
said Tajani referring to French President Emmanuel Macron who
got half the votes of marine Le Pen's rightwing National Rally
and called a snap election in response, and to German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz whose centre-left SPD lost second place behind the
centre right CDU to the rightwing Alternative for Germany.
Commenting at the Farnesina on rumours that several countries
were shocked by France and Germany's apparent desire to isolate
Meloni, Tajani said "One cannot try to change the electoral
outcome and the will of the citizens with Palace operations.
"The election result must be taken into account, the doors of
the majority must be opened to the ECR, not to the Greens".
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