Elon Musk is not a danger for
democracy with his statements on X on affairs in foreign
countries and Hungarian-born US financier and philanthropist
George Soros is the one meddling in other nations' politics,
Premier Giorgia Meloni told an end of year press conference in
Rome Thursday.
"Is the problem (with Musk) that he is rich and influential or
that he is not left-wing?," she asked reporters.
"Musk is not a danger to democracy.
"Interference exists in other cases when wealthy people use
resources to finance parties and associations around the world
to influence policies, as in the case of Soros".
"I don't take money from Musk, if anything, others took it from
Soros. I don't see the danger to democracy".
Asked her to comment on Musk's endorsement of Alternative for
Germany and criticism of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social
democarts, Meloni repliee: "I would like to recall the
interference of the German side in the Italian campaign.
"We must bring things back to where they are, in the channel
where they are.
"Musk expresses his position and this is what we are talking
about.
"You may like it or not but when I am told that there is a
danger of interference I point out that it is not the first case
of well-known and wealthy people who express their opinions.
"I have seen several cases and often against me and no one has
been scandalized.
"The problem is when these people use resources to finance
parties and associations around the world to influence policies,
something that I do not see Musk doing unlike Soros.
"I consider this a dangerous interference.
"But when it happened, people talked about philanthropists: is
the problem that (Musk) is rich and influential or that he is
not left-wing?".
Meloni and the Tesla, SpaceX and X owner are friends.
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