“Let’s dissolve NATO”: storm over Marco Tarquinio’s tweet
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ROME – The sentence is one of those that make noise. Even more so if the person saying it, or rather tweeting it, is a leading name in the race for the European elections. Even more so if it comes from a candidate from the ranks of the Democratic Party, who has never questioned the existence of NATO. Marco Tarquinio, former director of the Avvenire newspaper, thought about it. Words that agitated his opponents and embarrassed his party comrades.
RENZI: TO BUILD PEACE YOU NEED NATO AND THE ARMY EUROPEAN
“The PD with Marco Tarquinio says that to build peace we need to dissolve NATO, disavowing the Atlanticism of the last 70 years – comments the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi on X -. We instead say that to build peace we need NATO, the European Army, common defense and a foreign policy. In short, we need a United States of Europe, not this PD #ScriviRenzi“.
BORGHI (IV): TARQUINIO TAKES US BACK TO 1949
“The standard-bearer of the new course of the Democratic Party, Marco Tarquinio, reaches the unstoppable: he proposes to dissolve NATO – adds SenatorEnrico Borghi, group leader in the Senate of Italia Viva-. In the midst of a war in the heart of Europe, opened by Russia, in the midst of cyber attacks and hybrid warfare against all Western countries by autocratic states, we are thinking of abolishing the shield that ensures us security, peace and stability” “I would like to remind Tarquinio of the foundations of the Atlantic Charter: no to territorial enlargements at the expense of others; no to territorial changes that do not respect the votes freely expressed by the peoples concerned; the right of all peoples to choose their own form of government and restoration of sovereign rights and autonomy of those who have been deprived of them by force; equal access to trade and raw materials in the world; economic cooperation between all States to ensure better working conditions and progress for all economic, social security; destruction of Nazi tyranny and guarantee of peace to all peoples to live safely within borders and free from fear and want; free movement in seas and oceans; renounces the use of force. In your opinion, are these values – asks Borghi – no longer current?”. “The war of aggression launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the condition of instability in the wider Mediterranean, pose on the contrary the need for a strengthening of the action of defense and protection of NATO on the southern flank. Other than going out. We thought – concludes the group leader of IV in the Senate – that this logic was typical of the sovereignist and nationalist dynamics, which are re-emerging even in these hours, as well as of the group and late 1968 approaches. Berlinguer had arrived at this in 1976, saying that yes he felt safer with NATO than with the Warsaw Pact. Tarquinio takes the Italian left back to 1949. And good night to its government culture…”.
CARFAGNA: TARQUINIO GREAT MISTAKE OF THE PD AND SCHLEIN
“The candidacy of Marco Tarquinio confirms itself to be a huge mistake by the Democratic Party and Elly Schlein: now let them have the courage to distance themselves from his words on the dissolution of NATO – Mara Carfagna writes on president of Action – We cannot bring to Europe people who work for the disarmament of the West and for the abandonment of the European peoples to the aggression and arrogance of their enemies We must do the exact opposite : choose who, as Action, intends to fight to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance through a common European defense and who works to protect the spaces of freedom and security that three generations of Italians have conquered with their sacrifice and their blood”.< /p>
PROVENZANO: “POSITION OF THE PD CHIARA, TARQUINIO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE”
“As is known, Marco Tarquinio is an independent candidate, the positions on the foreign and security policy of the Democratic Party are expressed by the Democratic Party – said Peppe Provenzano, head of foreign affairs of the Party democratic– And they are clear and well-known. We reiterated them in the program for the European elections and, to those who want to exploit them, I remind you that the Italian left resolved the NATO issue with Berlinguer. in the Seventies. We are for European strategic autonomy, which is expressed within international alliances and by strengthening multilateral institutions Today, this means supporting Ukraine , and working for a just peace and not for escalation. It also means having a leading role in the Middle East, to bring about a ceasefire, respect international legality and preserve the two-people, two-state solution, with the recognition of the State of Palestine”.