This is the affair that shook Italy and even made the front page of website of the very respectable La Repubblica. So for once it is not a political-judicial affair but a political-love affair. 20 minutes sums it all up for you.
What did Giorgia Meloni do?
The head of the Italian government announced Friday morning that she was separating from her partner, television journalist Andrea Giambruno, with whom she had her only child, Ginevra, aged 7. “My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost ten years, is over […] Our paths have diverged for some time, and the time has come to take note of it,” wrote Giorgia Meloni in a message posted on social networks accompanied by a selfie dating back several years where we see her smiling with her now ex-partner and their daughter who is still very young.
Far-right politics ends with a mysterious postscript in the form of a schoolboy’s aphorism: “All those who hoped to weaken me by targeting my home should know that, even if the drop can hope to dig up the stone, the stone remains stone and the drop is only water. » Probably a reference to the recent revelations about his fellow journalist Andrea Giambruno.
But what did Andrea Giambruno do?
Indeed, this announcement from Giorgia Meloni comes after the broadcast of scandalous statements from her now ex, 42 years old, recorded without his knowledge on the sidelines of the show he hosts on the private channel Rete4. These remarks were broadcast Tuesday and Thursday evening in a satirical program on the Canale 5 channel, another channel of the Mediaset group, which belongs to the Berlusconi family.
In the recording broadcast Thursday evening, the journalist says to a colleague: “Can I touch my package while I’m talking to you? » Then he continues: “What’s your name? Do we already know each other? Where have I seen you before? Was I drunk? » Before adding: “How my darling? Do you know that me and XXX (name redacted) have a relationship? All of Mediaset knows it, and now you too. But we are looking for a third participant. You want to be part of our working group, would you like it? »
Andrea Giambruno is not on her first questionable outing. At the end of August, he declared regarding the gang rape of a 19-year-old young woman in Palermo: “If you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, you probably also avoid certain problems and the risk, indeed, of throw into the den of the wolf. » Words which then created controversy.
Why does this put Giorgia Meloni in difficulty?
Apart from the fact that on a personal level, Giorgia Meloni may have felt betrayed by these filthy remarks and the revelation of an extra-marital affair by Andrea Giambruno, this also poses a political problem for the head of government since she built part of its success on promoting traditional family values. Thus, she presented herself during her electoral campaign as “a Christian mother”. But this time, she obviously didn’t know how to forgive.