The government lives on another planet, centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein said after Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said poor Italians eat better than rich ones because they can get cheap and wholesome fare straight from producers, unlike in America where the opposite is true, on Thursday.
“I deal above all with those Italians who struggle to do the shopping, they are many, although I have seen that unfortunately there are some ministers who think that the poor eat better than the rich.
“There is no need for parodies when there is a government living on another planet,” said Schlein, at her arrival at the PD’s main Festa dell’Unità in Bologna.
Lollobrigida, brother in law of Premier Giorgia Meloni and grand nephew of late screen star Gina Lollobrigida, made his comments at a symposium calling for “inter-class” diet education in Italy.
A few months ago Lollobrigida drew flak by appearing to espouse the ethnic ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory.
Source: Ansa News Agency