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Migrants, Mattarella on Musk: 'Italy can look after itself'. And Meloni: 'We listen with respect to the president'. The tycoon counter-attacks: "Does an unelected autocracy decide?"

The Head of State: "Anyone, particularly if, as announced, about to take on an important government role in a friendly and allied country, must respect our sovereignty and cannot attribute to himself the task of issuing prescriptions".

by Redaction Rome

13 November 2024

Musk: "Rispetto Mattarella ma continuerò a esprimere opinioni"

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Key points

Anm: 'Musk meddles and the government lets him do it'
Musk insists: 'an unelected autocracy decides in Italy?
Musk retweets comment on Mattarella: "Meloni is right"
Musk on migrant case: these judges must go
Schlein on Musk: what is Meloni waiting for to defend sovereignty?
Barelli (Fi): wise words Mattarella, every country is sovereign
Fazzolari: we don't need government, NGO or media interference
Mattarella in 2022 criticised Paris's interference in the new Meloni government
Court of Appeal to decide on validation of detention of migrants

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"Italy is a great democratic country and I must reiterate that it knows how to take care of itself, while respecting its Constitution". This was stated by President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella referring to the words of Elon Musk. The head of state also calls for respect for the 'sovereignty' of other countries. "Italy is a great democratic country and I must reiterate, in the words used on another occasion, on 7 October 2022, that it 'knows how to take care of itself while respecting its Constitution. Anyone, particularly if, as announced, about to assume an important role of government in a friendly and allied country, must respect its sovereignty and cannot attribute to himself the task of issuing prescriptions to it,' the Head of State wrote in a note.

And Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has filtered from Palazzo Chigi her support for the Head of State: 'We always listen with great respect to the words of the President of the Republic.

Anm: 'Musk meddles and the government lets him do it'

And it is a big clash between the ANM and the government. "An American tycoon so influential in the new administration of that country talking about the internal affairs of the sovereign Italian state, this is the fact that leaps to the eye. He meddles in Italy's affairs making unfounded judgments, naive at best without anyone thinking of the government responding by saying that these are Italy's affairs on which it has no right to intervene. Borders are defended so much precisely in the matter of illegal immigration and the supreme duty to defend borders is called for, these too are borders. There are ideal borders that cannot be violated by those who think they can interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign country'. The president of the Anm, Giuseppe Santalucia, told 24 Mattino on Radio 24.

Musk insists: "An unelected autocracy decides in Italy?"

"This is unacceptable. Do the Italian people live in a democracy or is it an unelected autocracy that makes the decisions?" So writes Elon Musk on X returning to the judges' stop on the migrant case in Albania.

Musk retweets comment on Mattarella: "Meloni is right"

And it didn't end there. Because then the tycoon retweets a comment on the words of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella by a right-wing Dutch columnist, Eva Vlaardingerbroek. The latter, publishing the Quirinale's post, writes in Italian: 'No. Elon Musk and Giorgia Meloni are right. The fact that the judges of the court in Rome think they are above the government and the democratic process is madness. They are not a constitutional court, so they are exceeding their jurisdiction in violation of the separation of powers'.

Musk on migrant case: these judges must go

'These judges need to go'. This is how Elon Musk had commented on 12 November on X on a post by a user reporting the news of the suspension of the validation of the detention of seven migrants decided by the immigration section of the Court of Rome, which had also referred to the EU Court.

Schlein on Musk: what is Meloni waiting for to defend sovereignty?

PD secretary Elly Schlein intervened in the case on Instagram: 'It is embarrassing that the self-styled sovereignists at home are letting an American billionaire like Musk dictate the line. His repeated outbursts against the Italian judiciary are an unacceptable attack on a constitutional body. What is Meloni waiting for to defend national sovereignty?".

Barelli (Fi): wise words Mattarella, every country is sovereign

In the majority, Forza Italia takes a position: 'The President of the Republic has said wise things, in line with democratic logic and the sovereignty of each individual country,' said Fi's group leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Paolo Barelli, commenting with journalists on Sergio Mattarella's words on Elon Musk.

Fazzolari: we don't need interference from governments, NGOs or the media

Then the voice of Fdi was added with the undersecretary Giovanbattista Mantovano. "It is right and proper that the President of the Republic, the head of the judiciary and guarantor of the Constitution, should make his voice heard. Italy can look after itself. We do not need foreign interference from other governments, from NGOs, from big media," Fazzolari urges, contacted by the Ansa agency. "For Fratelli d'Italia this is always true and with whoever, it is surprising, if anything, that the left turns out to be an alternating current sovereignist, invoking external interference against this government and being scandalised when it is a person like Musk who comments on Italian events and who is not currently in office in any government.

Mattarella in 2022 criticised Paris's interference in the new Meloni government

Mattarella in his note today, 13 November, refers to words he himself said in October 2002. What did he say and to whom did he address himself on that occasion? 'Italy can look after itself while respecting the Constitution and the values of the European Union'. This is what the Head of State said at the time, reacting to an interview given to Repubblica by the French Minister for European Affairs, Laurence Boone, in which she showed concern for the new government being formed under the leadership of Meloni. The head of state's stance was also added at the time to Mario Draghi's statements on the Prague European Council, where - he said - "curiosity" emerged about the new executive but "no concern". Meloni herself unloaded her disappointment on Twitter, describing the transalpine minister's words as 'an unacceptable threat of interference against a sovereign state, a member of the EU'. In turn, Boone relied on her cabinet to clarify that the interview was 'oversimplifying'.

The Court of Appeal will decide on the validation of detention of migrants

In the meantime, the premier's party has presented an amendment on the basis of which the "proceedings concerning the validation of the measure with which the Questore orders the detention or the extension of the detention" of the migrant requesting "international protection" will be the competence of the Court of Appeal in monocratic composition. No longer the specialised section on Immigration of the Court of Law, to which instead remains the competence for disputes "concerning the appeal against the measures" for the "non-recognition of the prerequisites for special protection".