EU ‘oligarchy’ betrayed voters with appointment of top jobs, says Meloni
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/26/eu-oligarchy-betrayed-voters-appointment-top-jobs-meloni/
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EU ‘oligarchy’ betrayed voters with appointment of top jobs, says Meloni
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/26/eu-oligarchy-betrayed-voters-appointment-top-jobs-meloni/
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**From The Telegraph:**
[Giorgia Meloni](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/rishi-sunak-giorgia-meloni-g7-summit/) accused European leaders of acting like “an oligarchy” by stitching together backroom deals to divvy up the EU’s top jobs.
Addressing parliament in Rome, the Italian prime minister accused the EU establishment of continuing to act as if the political landscape had not changed after the European elections, [held in early June](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/10/europe-young-voters-flocked-hard-right-elections/), which saw a big swing to the Right.
“The European ruling classes (are) tempted to sweep the dust under the carpet, as if nothing had happened,” said Ms Meloni, responding to a deal reportedly reached on Tuesday by the leaders of six EU nations to put forward [Ursula von der Leyen](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/11/charles-michel-seeks-block-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-meetings/) as European Commission president for a second time, appoint Antonio Costa, the Portuguese former socialist prime minister, as the president of the European Council and make Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, the EU foreign policy chief.
Rather than cooking up cosy “fireside deals” to apportion the top jobs to establishment figures, leaders should have better reflected the will of voters, Ms Meloni said.
She criticised “those who argue that citizens are not mature enough to make certain decisions, and (believe) that oligarchy is basically the only acceptable form of democracy. I am not of this opinion. I have fought this surreal principle in Italy and I intend to fight it in Europe too,” she told MPs.
# ‘Fragile majority’ decided top jobs
The decision on who should be awarded the top jobs had been made by “a fragile majority” within the European Parliament, Ms Meloni said.
The consultations took place between six national leaders, including [France’s Emmanuel Macron](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/22/emmanuel-macron-risks-triggering-frexit-warns-eu-chief/) and Germany’s Olaf Scholz, who represent the three main blocs in the European Parliament: the centre-Right European People’s Party (EPP) and its partners, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the centrist group Renew Europe.
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she is right, and doubly so.
hot and witty she is, too.
Relax, Mussoloni. You ain’t the boss yet.
Rare Meloni W
Translation: “I’m mad, because I wasn’t invited to the party.”
Unfortunately this only benefits those populist parties, now they can go around and scream “Eu mafia! see they only want power for themselves even if we won! Vote us more to change this”
she correct , van der leyen , did a bad job as president and got rewarded for it
So the composition of the EP barely changed, and this proto-fascist is mad her agenda isn’t being better reflected than it already is. Always wants more, to normalize what she’s doing in Italy.
If she was really a team player, she’d recognize that there are different ways and POVs to make the EU succeed, and it doesn’t have to be hers. Like a President or a PM that must work for the interests of the entire country, including one’s political opponents, even if only to convince them.
What’d she expect? Everyone rolling in the red carpet while blowing her trumpet? Just because some parties gained steats and others lost doesn’t mean they’re gonna lay down and roll over so they could let her take over. That’s politics hun, calling it what it is does nothing, and now you’re trying to be a victim who was cheated out of her prize, boo fucking hoo
She is right but I have the feeling that if she was included to the ‘oligarchy leadership’ of Germany-France she wouldn’t utter a word of the same sentiment.
Kinda ironic to speak of oligarchy, when you yourself, like all right-wing politicians, are in the pocket and only serve the interests of corporations, millionaires and billionnaires, and the private sector.
Oligarchy isn’t the right term it should be kleptocracy.
People who are mocking her right now in the next five years will be asking “But how could the far-right and other eurosceptic parties have risen even more???!??!?”, still refusing to address the elephant in the room.
Her grouping in the parliament is ultimately a tiny minority and while minority concerns should be listened they don’t drive the agenda. At the end of the day, democracy is a majority endeavor. EU groupings representing majority of parliamentarians have presented the candidates. No oligarchy, majority, words matter. Unfortunately fringe nutters on both sides of the spectrum use human nature to try to divide and divert people from normalcy of the middle ground into extremes.
Right point, wrong person.
Meloni is a populist and not hair better.
For anyone not following Italian politics:
This is her weekly populist cry/rant about whatever the current topic is.
This time she was addressing the parliament in anticipation of the EU council and since the new EP hasn’t changed much and denied her any big EU win she is already spewing the usual BS about how the EU is evil and run by evil establishment bureaucrats.
Sad thing is that this bullshit always work extremely well in Italy
Meloni’s right wing allies did not win the European Parliament elections, no matter how loud they cry. PPE and PES won the elections, just like they have many times before.
Meloni goes around parroting that she will never make and alliance with the “left wing”: then she has to deal with the consequences.
As an Italian I am Laughing because I don’t want to cry for her whiny fascist attitude
MFW the parties voted in by a majority of voters form a government without inclusing another party for no reason.
“Say the line, average non-centrist politician!”
Imagine calling “a fragile majority” making decision undemocratic 🤣. What does she propose, a non-majority making decisions?
It‘s called democracy. You and your bunch simply were not needed for building the next leadership team of the EU. Happens all the time, for example in Italy YOU are the “oligarchy” that “betrayed” a lot of voters by not including their preferred personnel.
Costa as president of the Council is genuinely scandalous, seriously undermines that already weakened role.
Not wrong but coming from her it’s highly comical .
The biggest joke in EU politics has to be proto-fascists populist parties acting like they care about the economic statut-quo.
Ah sure.
So does it mean that that she is happy to show example in Italy.
ECR got what – 72 seats out of 720.
PD in Italian parliament got 69 seats out of 400
M5S got 52 seats out of 400.
The Cabinet in Italy was decided by the leaders of 3 parties (Meloni’s Fratelli, Lega and Forza).
But that, i assume, is totally different, right?