Italian PM Giorgia Meloni criticises the left's double standards, backs Trump and Modi, and praises Ukraine.
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00:00We have some breaking news, it's coming in.
00:07Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slams left hypocrisy.
00:11She says left nervous with Donald Trump's victory.
00:13She further says left says threat to democracy if Trump speaks.
00:17Left says threat to democracy if Narendra Modi speaks.
00:20She also says we are now used to double standards of the left hitting out.
00:25She says nobody believes in the left anymore.
00:27Citizens keep voting for us.
00:29This is what Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.
00:32Let's take a listen.
00:35President Benz was discussing something deeper, identity, democracy, freedom of speech.
00:43In short, Europe's historic role and mission.
00:49Many pretended to be outraged, calling for European pride against an American dating
00:56to lecture us.
00:58But let me tell you, as someone who is proud to be European, first, if those who were outraged
01:08had shown the same pride when Europe lost its strategic autonomy, tying its economy
01:15to autocratic regimes, or when European borders and our way of life were threatened by mass
01:22illegal migration, now we would live in a stronger Europe.
01:26When we stopped invasions, won our independences, and overthrew dictators.
01:32And we have done it together the last three years in Ukraine, where a proud people fight
01:39for their freedom against the brutal aggression.
01:42And we must continue today, working together for a just and lasting peace, a peace that
01:47can only be built with the contribution of all, but above all, with strong leaderships.
01:54And I know, that with Donald Trump leading the United States, we will never again see
02:00the disaster we saw in Afghanistan four years ago.
02:04My colleague Shashank Mattu joins us on the broadcast with more details.
02:09Shashank, the Italian Prime Minister has hit out at left hypocrisy, not just expressed
02:13support for Donald Trump, but also Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
02:17Do you think her remarks showcase her great personal rapport with both Trump and Modi?
02:22Well, absolutely.
02:23In some sense, we know that she does have a close relationship with Prime Minister Modi.
02:27We also know that, you know, being in America right now as the European leader, what she's
02:31trying to do is playing on something that Donald Trump and his administration have already indicated.
02:36What we're seeing in the Western world right now is this massive divide between center-left
02:40liberal parties and conservative right-wing parties.
02:44And Donald Trump and his administration in America have made very clear that they have
02:47a preference for conservative right-wing parties like themselves.
02:51You will notice that they have, some people like Elon Musk, who is very close to the president,
02:55have endorsed right-wing parties in Germany and in other European elections, and that
02:59is what they want Europe to increasingly look like.
03:02So Johnson Maloney is playing to that.
03:03She's saying that I am a very strong European leader.
03:06I am also from a conservative right-wing background.
03:09And so you and I can form this form of alliance.
03:12So she's there.
03:13She's praising Donald Trump.
03:14She's praising his foreign policy, slamming the policy of the Biden administration.
03:19So what you're seeing really is this divide in the Western world between center-left liberal
03:24parties and this emerging alliance of conservative right-wing parties that want to act in concert
03:30with each other all across the Western world.
03:32So it's a very interesting development in the political sphere.
03:36Absolutely, Shashank.
03:37Thanks for bringing us those details.
03:38Do stay with us.
03:39We have some more breaking news that's coming in.