“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.”
Meloni added that Hungarian-born US financier and philanthropist George Soros, however, is the one meddling in other nations’ politics
“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 to comment on Musk’s endorsement of Alternative for Germany and criticism of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social democrats, Meloni replied: “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 scandalised.
“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.”
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