Meloni to Bonaccini: 'The left, though defeated, disrespects right-wing voters'

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sharply criticized Stefano Bonaccini, the president of the Democratic Party, accusing him and "a certain left" of disrespecting voters who support right-wing parties.

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In an enlightened lesson, Stefano Bonaccini, president of the Democratic Party, explains to us that millions of Italians vote for the right because they have studied little.

Meloni's remarks, made on Facebook, were a direct response to Bonaccini's statement that a majority of right-wing voters are "those who have studied little, live in internal areas and city peripheries, and are economically worse off." Meloni countered this by suggesting that these Italians, regardless of their formal education, have learned from the "consequences of the left's policies" through lived experience.

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Those who vote for them are educated, aware, and intelligent citizens, while those who vote for us would be ignorant to be pitied, if not re-educated.

"They have seen less secure cities, uncontrolled borders, forgotten peripheries, and moral lessons from those who presume to tell others how to live, how to vote, and how to think," Meloni wrote. She argued that people vote for the right because the party does not question their educational qualifications before listening to them.

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Perhaps Bonaccini should consider a simpler hypothesis: those Italians, regardless of the schools they attended, have studied the consequences of the left's policies on their own skin.

"We respect them. And perhaps it is precisely this respect that Bonaccini and a certain left, despite many defeats, have not yet studied enough," Meloni concluded. Her statement frames the political divide not just on policy, but on a fundamental difference in how political parties regard and interact with the electorate.

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They have seen less secure cities, uncontrolled borders, forgotten peripheries, and moral lessons from those who presume to tell others how to live, how to vote, and how to think.