“Italy is a great democratic country and I must reiterate, with the words used on another occasion, on 7 October 2022, that ‘She can take care of herself in compliance with its Constitution'”.Sergio Mattarella raises the shield of his authority again to defend the institutions and sovereignty of our country. After the words about X of Elon Musk, who, commenting on a post regarding decisions on the detention of migrants in Albania, had written that “the Italian judges must go”, the head of state, as he has already done on other occasions, claims the autonomy of our country. Even more so when faced with the words of a future ‘minister’ of an allied country. “Anyone, particularly if, as announced, about to assume an important government role in a friendly and allied country, must respect its sovereignty and cannot take on the task of giving it prescriptions” continues Mattarella, who among his functions also has that of presiding over the CSM.
As often happens to avoid getting involved in hot controversies, the head of state waited a few hours before responding, hours not filled by declarations from government representatives to protect a constitutional body, then he took pen and paper and issued a official statement. It is not the first time this has happened, the President moved to defend Italy’s autonomy in the face of interference from various allies, of all political colours, while different governments of all political colors were leading the country. From Boris Johnson to Christine Lagarde to the French minister Boone, others had already been criticized by Mattarella for not respecting our sovereignty.
Musk will be the head of the United States Department of Government Efficiency led by Donald Trump. The announcement came overnight from the president-elect himself, according to whom the South African billionaire founder of Tesla “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations and unnecessary spending and restructure federal agencies”. Musk will lead the office together with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in what Trump has called the ‘Manhattan project’ of “our era”, with a bizarre reference to the military research program that led to the creation of the first bombs atomic bombs during World War II.
Meloni: “We always listen to Mattarella with great respect”
“We always listen with great respect to the words of the President of the Republic”, says Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sources at Palazzo Chigi report.
What Musk said
“These judges must go” commented Musk at the bottom of the post on Mario Nawfal’s account on The post’s author has emerged as one of the rising stars on X where he has more than 1.7 million followers, hosts some of the platform’s biggest audio events and often receives praise from Musk himself. Positioning himself as a combination of entrepreneur, corporate influencer and “citizen journalist”, Nawfal hosts and moderates ‘The Roundtable Show’, which he says brings in more than 6 million listeners a week.
Musk: “Does an unelected autocracy decide in Italy?”
“Do the Italian people live in a democracy or is it an unelected autocracy that makes decisions?”, Elon Musk writes again on . Musk shares a post from a user who claims that due to the judges’ decision, ‘Giorgia Meloni’s government in Italy will not be allowed to expel illegal immigrants’ and ‘Italy’s borders will remain open and new Europeans will be allowed to invade forever both Italy and Europe.” “This is unacceptable – writes Musk, who tonight Donald Trump appointed head of the Department for Government Efficiency in his next administration – do the Italian people live in a democracy or does an unelected autocracy make the decisions?”.