Europeans, Meloni: “I am ‘Giorgia’, one of the people. Not Sbirulino”
"After a year and a half as Prime Minister, most people turn to me by first name and calling me Giorgia", says the Premier
ROME – “I would like it if those who voted for me wrote Giorgia on the ballot, even just Giorgia. Also because the thing I’m most proud of is that after a year and a half as Prime Minister, most people turn to giving me first name and calling me GiorgiaI am proud, because the role has not created distance and I am still a person of the people”. This was reiterated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, guest of Mattino Cinque.
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For the elections of 8 and 9 June, which will elect our representatives to the European Parliament, a rule provides that preference for the candidate can also be assigned “using identifying expressions such as diminutives or nicknames , communicated previously to the voters”. And precisely to avoid appeals and conflicts of attribution, the parties move in advance, ‘recording’ all the possible ‘said’ in the lists, in an often compelling rosary of popular imagination and localism. “A trick? I no longer follow these left-wing debates, what can I say… Giorgia Meloni known as Sbirulino?“, jokes the Premier. And on the failure to discuss with the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein , in view of the European elections he says: “I’m very sorry because in my opinion it was a missed opportunity”.