Posted on 12/11/2018 8:19:04 PM PST by aquila48
ITALY’S Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of keeping the power from the people and in the hands of the elite, less than 24 hours after he said the young centrist was to blame for the “yellow vest” protests that have unnerved Paris.
The young centrist is struggling to curb a wave of violent protests that have rocked his administration to its core, and forced him to scrap a planned carbon tax and up salaries. Mr Salvini, head of the far-right League party, has repeatedly locked horns with Mr Macron over immigration policy, and has jumped on the anti-government protests rattling France as proof the French leader is out-of-touch and arrogant. He said in Rome yesterday: “The ‘yellow vest’ crisis shows that the French have finally understood that their president, Emmanuel Macron, is nothing but a ‘laboratory mouse’ elected to keep the [elitist] political system in place."
In a thinly veiled reference to his conservative ally Marine Le Pen’s defeat to Mr Macron in France’s 2017 presidential election, he added: “That Macron was a lab-made product invented to block change just as it was looming in the horizon now strikes me as obvious."
Mr Salvini further twisted the knife, mocking Mr Macron’s efforts to position himself as the de facto head of Europe.
He said: “Let me remind you that until a few months ago, Macron was seen as the champion of the new Europe by all of Italy’s leftists. He was Europe’s new genius, Europe’s new saviour… But they had it all wrong, again.
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White lab coats, too.
This newssheet calls Macron a “Centrist”???
Good for Salvini.
Europe is waking up.
Salvini rocks! He needs to be Italy’s prime minister but probably brings more s*** against the muzzies as interior minister.
Who the h*** is the Italian PM, anyway?
Talk is cheap. The EU has Italy by its short hairs. It’s content to let Salvini throw a few bones to the hoi polloi to keep them pacified, but if Salvini gets too big for his britches...there goes the funding keeping Italy afloat. Salvini knows it. So does anyone who can add and subtract.
Italy has cut immigration by 81% under this guy.
“Who the h*** is the Italian PM, anyway?”
Giuseppe Conte, but he’s just a figure head appointed as a compromise between the two coalition parties.
The de facto PM is Salvini and his popularity has sky rocketed since his election. A couple days ago he had a rally where 80,000 people showed up.
What’s going on in France with the yellow jackets and now the bombing of the Xmas market will only add to his popularity and political clout.
“This newssheet calls Macron a “Centrist”???”
On the economy, he has actually fairly sane policies - reform the labor laws so people can be hired and fired/laid off more easily, stop gouging the rich (eliminated the wealth tax), reduce tax on investment income, reduce regulations, fight national unions.
For the rest he’s a rabid leftist globalist with napoleonic complex.
“...Salvini and his popularity has sky rocketed since his election. A couple days ago he had a rally where 80,000 people showed up.”
“Il Trumpini”? This nationalism stuff is catching on everywhere. How long before he’s compared to `Il Duce’?
;^)
“How long before he’s compared to `Il Duce’?”
He was called all that and more during the election, just like the left did to Trump.
“The young centrist.”
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