The previous day, Musk wrote on his platform X that Rome judges “need to go” after they nixed the detention of a second batch of migrants subjected to Italy’s controversial policy of processing migrants in Albania.
“Italy is a great democratic country and I must reiterate that it knows how to take care of itself, in respect of its Constitution,” the Italian president said.
Mattarella was quoting a statement he made on October 7, 2022, responding to an interview given by former French European Affairs minister Laurence Boone to Rome daily La Repubblica.
Boone had expressed concern for the new cabinet to be led by Giorgia Meloni.
“Anyone, particularly if, as announced … [is] about to undertake an important government role in a friendly and allied country,” Mattarella went on to say, “must respect sovereignty and cannot claim the role of imparting provisions”.
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