The Lower House whip of Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Tommaso Foti, on
Tuesday slammed comments in Italy on the formation of a
government in Austria after the Freedom Party (FPO) on Sunday
scored the first far-right national parliamentary election win
in the country since World War II, ahead of the ruling
conservative Austrian People's Party.
"It will be up to those elected in the Austrian Parliament to
decide which majority they will want and I have always
considered as inappropriate meddling, as far as Italy is
concerned, when others wanted to suggest other forms of
government", he noted.
"I don't see why we should suggest who should govern in
Austria", Foti told the Tagadà program on La7.
On Monday, Deputy Premier, Transport Minister and right-wing
League party leader Matteo Salvini said there was no danger of
neo-Nazism rearing its head in Austria after Deputy Premier and
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Austria needs a government
led by conservatives that excludes the Freedom Party (FPO).
The Forza Italia (FI) leader noted that "neo-Nazi resurgence
must be rejected".
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