Brussels avoids assessing Meloni's triumph in Italy: "We never comment on electoral results"

BRUSELAS, 26 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The European Commission has avoided this Monday making assessments of the victory this Sunday in Italy of the extreme right led by Giorgia Meloni alleging that it "never comments" on electoral results, although it has indicated that Brussels works with all governments that "arise from the polls" in the member states.

"We never comment on the results of national elections," said the chief spokesman for the Community Executive, Éric Mamer, at a press conference in Brussels when asked about the triumph of the far-right force and the support of the rest of the right.

"The Commission works with the governments that emerge from the polls in the elections of the countries of the European Union, it will not be different in this case," he stressed, later adding that Brussels hopes to have a "constructive cooperation with the new Italian authorities "When a new Government is appointed, following the constitutional procedures.

The spokesman for the Executive of Ursula von der Leyen has insisted that "it is not up to the European Commission to comment on the electoral campaign" that has been carried out in Italy or to try to analyze the reasons for the vote expressed by the citizens.

"Seeing in these elections a kind of judgment on Europe seems to me an extreme simplification," warned the community spokesman, who has also denied again that Von der Leyen wanted to compare the situation in Italy with the procedures against Hungary with some statements on Friday. and Poland for threatening the rule of law.

Mamer has insisted that they are different issues that the head of the Community Executive did not want to relate when she spoke about it during a colloquium at Princeton University (United States), ignoring that it was Von der LEyen herself who mentioned these two countries when she was asked by the possible entry of the extreme right in power in Italy.

"We will see what the results are (...). My position is that we will work together with any democratic government that is willing to work with us", added the head of the Community Executive, to later point out that "if things go difficult direction -- we talked about Poland and Hungary earlier -- we have instruments," von der Leyen said at Princeton.

Meloni's party, founded in 2012 and with its roots in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), founded by followers of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, has won 26.5 percent of the vote, according to data from more than 90 percent of the count. The far-right Matteo Salvini League has obtained nine percent and Forza Italia, led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has collected eight percent of the support.

In second place was Enrico Letta's Democratic Party, with 19.4 percent; while in third place is the 5 Star Movement, led by Giuseppe Conte, with 14.8 percent of the ballots. In this way, the right-wing bloc made up of the parties of Meloni, Salvini and Berlusconi would achieve an absolute majority in both chambers.