“I don’t receive it, come to the border to see what your friend Putin is doing and condemn him.” The Mayor of Przemysl Wojciech Bakun he had no other words to say to the League secretary Matteo Salvini arrived in Poland, in the city that hosts most of the Ukrainian refugees. Next to him he unrolled a T-shirt with the face of Vladimir Putin and the inscription “Russian Army”, the same one that Salvini wore in 2015 during his visit to Moscow.
On social media, the mayor then wrote that “certain things must be said in the face”. The Northern League leader only found objections to his trip to Poland: its presence appeared more populist than humanitarian. A choice, that of leaving, which seems to have been advised against by the members of his party themselves, and which seems to be the definitive abolition of populism ridden by the Northern League leader. “I’m here to help,” Salvini said and it is certainly true, but it is equally true that it cannot be forgotten. The Putin he supported is the same Putin who is invading Ukraine with the Russian army. Silvio Berlusconi has been silent for days, since he has long called himself a friend of Putin, a way that is certainly more cautious.
The images of the protest have made the rounds of the web and have become memes. To show Salvini the shirt he wore in Russia a few years ago, then saying that he gave two Mattarella for half Putin, was a conservative mayor. It was supposed to be a silent journey and it became very noisy. However, he did not help people in difficulty, sparking a controversy and showed what seems to be yet another misstep by Salvini, punished on those social networks that have been his sounding board in recent years.
There are those who speak of an own goal by the Northern League secretary, after the split of the center-right for the election of Mattarella and the missed appointment with Giorgia Meloni, after the photos without a mask, after the exits on not vaccinating children, after the intercoms at home of alleged drug dealers. The too social secretary ends up more and more victim of the gear. To hit him this time is the one who does not post. Of the whole trip, in the documentation of the official accounts, there is everything except the dispute which is instead the thing that runs everywhere else. “We are not interested in the controversy of the Italian or Polish left, we are here to help those fleeing the war,” the answer reported by La Stampa.
The change of look no longer seems to work: wearing the shirt of the moment. The pacifist’s jacket does not work in front of those who remember the Putinian t-shirt and faces more than two million people on the run.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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