The PP candidate for the general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, today showed his approach to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. In an interview published in Corriere della Sera and El Mundo, the popular president maintains that it would be desirable for the EU for the leader of the Brothers of Italy to join the European People’s Party (EPP), a statement that comes after the approaches that the Italian premier is making to the popular to carry out an alliance with the European group that she presides over, the Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), of which Vox is a part.
Asked if he will support Meloni’s entry into the EPP, Feijóo maintains that “it will depend on Mrs. Meloni’s attitude”, but he says he is convinced, according to what Antonio Tajani, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and leader of Forza Italia (member of the PPE), tells him that Meloni’s positions today concern them “much less compared to the moment she was elected to the government”. “However, she must always respect the decisions of each country and respect her electorate. With the Italians we have always had optimal relations in our positions, ”he points out.
Later, when asked if it would be desirable for the EU for Meloni to become part of the EPP, the popular leader replied: “Undoubtedly.” Regarding the relations that he hopes to have with Meloni, Feijóo affirms that they will be “correct and fruitful” and stresses that the Italian premier “will be able to have greater contacts with the PPE in the future.”
Feijóo follows in the footsteps of the EPP president, Manfred Weber, who has blessed the government alliance formed in Italy between the Brothers of Italy, Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s League. Meloni’s dream is to translate this agreement at a European level so that her group, the ECR, can play a decisive role after the next European elections in 2024. The far-right leader has been courting the popular for months, hoping that these community elections will lead to a new conservative wave and displace the socialists in the majority that the European Commission of Ursula Von der Leyen elected.
For this reason, Meloni is very attentive to the result that Vox can obtain this Sunday, and also to what may happen in the elections scheduled for autumn in Poland, where his allies of Law and Justice govern. Last week she wrapped up Santiago Abascal at a campaign rally by sending a video in which she bet on a “patriotic-conservative” alternative in Spain in which Vox is the “protagonist”. “The time of the patriots has arrived”, she proclaimed, pointing to the examples of Italy, Finland, Sweden or the Czech Republic.
