“Happy Liberation Day”. This is how Vito Pretocelli, senator of the 5 Star Movement, decided to celebrate April 25: with a capital Z, a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
A letter painted on the tanks and armored vehicles that are occupying Ukraine. Petrocelli, president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Palazzo Madama, has long been known for his openly pro-Russian positions. And also for this reason there are those who, to the senator’s tweet, did not take long to reply: “happy feast of denazified liberation”, bringing back that “z” to its original lowercase version. Others, more succinctly, have defined it as a “merchant of Z “.
After the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, two months ago, controversies broke out in the Movement and in the majority of the government over the five-star parliamentary friend of the Kremlin: Petrocelli, in fact – in foreign policy close to China and with excellent relations also with Moscow – last March 31 he voted no to trust in the Ukraine decree.
“Enough with these continuous provocations – says the exponent of the Democratic Party and leader of the Dem Commission Alessandro Alfieri at the breaking latest news -. It has passed the mark. It is time for the President of the Senate Casellati to intervene ».
The reaction of the president of the Movement, Giuseppe Conte, who announced the expulsion of the parliamentarian via Twitter, was also immediate.