Italian policy remains the same. Barely a week after the fall of the country’s government, due to the deterioration of the parliamentary support base for the government of Mario Draghi – the sixth prime minister of Italy in the last 12 years, post-Berlusconi period -, now it seems a new scandal in the internal politics of the country. This time it is related to a possible Russian interference in Italian political life.
This Thursday, the Italian newspaper La Stampa revealed that an official from the Russian embassy in Rome had asked an international relations adviser to League leader Matteo Salvini months ago if the far-right party would be willing to let go. support for the Draghi government. Throughout the war sparked by a Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the Italian executive repeatedly opposed the Kremlin and sided with European powers in supporting kyiv.
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Source: Observadora
