Alessandro Zana: “Fontana’s election makes Putin happy. Me as a deputy? The party will decide “

“The election of La Russa to the Senate and Fontana to the House is the signal of a shift towards right-wing extremism that will put at risk – as happened in Trump’s America and Orban’s Hungary, which are the references politicians of Salvini and Meloni – both civil rights and many of the achievements of republican Italy “. The deputy of the Pd Alessandro Zan, a leading exponent of the LGBTQ + community that many would see well as the anti-Fontana in the vice-presidency of Montecitorio, has no doubts. The one-two settled by the center-right at the top of the institutions will take the country back decades.

“No to a homophobic and pro-Putin president”: this is the banner you rolled out in the classroom before the vote. Why, Honorable?
“It was a peaceful and silent demonstration to denounce the political profile of Fontana who has built his entire career around hate speech and discrimination, cultivating opaque relationships with far-right movements like Golden Dawn. His story shows that he does not possess any of the requisites of impartiality and balance that the third office of the state should have to guarantee all deputies, including those of the opposition “.

In his speech, however, Fontana praised diversity, did he expect it?
“It was a very bland, generic and above all smart speech. We are waiting for him to prove the facts to measure the distance between saying and doing, which I am convinced will be very wide. first political act elected a president of the Senate who sleeps between the busts of Mussolini and a president of the pro-Putinian and religious integralist Chamber, who has always fought against the rights of women and the LGBTQ + community. location of Italy: Fontana has never hidden his sympathies for Moscow and the Russian dictator “.

He is saying that his election is a message for Putin.
“It seems obvious to me. The Northern League deputy secretary, as indeed Salvini, has always contested the sanctions against Russia and was also an observer of the farce referendum in Crimea. I believe that Putin celebrated his rise to the top of the Italian institutions which, at the eyes of the world, also makes the international Meloni line not very credible “.

She is spoken of as one of the vice-presidents of the Chamber, in an anti-Fontana function.
“Apart from the fact that no institutional role can be anti-something, I am not aware of this hypothesis. Of course I remain available, as a party man, at the service of my country, always and in any case”.