The G-7 gives in to pressure from Giorgia Meloni. The far-right Italian leader I would have gotten it the word abortion as such disappears from the conclusions of the institution which is meeting in Borgo Egnazia (Italy). As indicated by the Italian media ‘Corriere della ser’and has subsequently been confirmed by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, Meloni would have managed to have the issue of abortion removed from the G-7 declaration and only discussed implicitly, despite the initial idea of ​​including it in the new document. However, it will not be until this Friday when we know the group’s final statement.

During the Government’s negotiation phase there was a proposal from France to reform the document and that an explicit mention would be made of the issue of abortion. At Macron’s request, Meloni turned the tables and demanded that he also They will talk about the prevention of abortion and help to avoid abortion. A strategy of the extreme right that left France in check, which she preferred to wipe her hands of and gave in to pressure from the Italian extreme right, claiming that in that case they preferred not to make an explicit mention of abortion.

The sources that confirm the news to the Italian media assure there is no reference to the voluntary termination of pregnancy in the deletion, which is present in the final declaration of the G7 in Hiroshima. However, the issue is not yet closed, the same sources report, inviting us to wait for the definitive conclusions reached by the leaders present in Borgo Egnazia. Therefore, these same sources insist that the draft prepared by the G-7 contains a formulation that does not include the word “abortion”which did appear in the final communiqué of the G-7 in Japan.

A defeat for Macron and Joe Biden

Macron and Biden would have thus reaped a painful defeat against Meloni’s extreme right, which prevails at the G-7 summit in a clear whitewashing of its image internationally. The president of France has expressed his discomfort for not including the word abortion in the statements and has regretted that he is not going to appear in order to give visibility to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.

“You know the position of France, which has included the right to abortion in the Constitution. It is not the same sensitivity that exists in your country. France shares a vision of equality between men and women, but it is not a vision shared across the political spectrum. I’m sorry, but I respect him because it was the sovereign choice of his people,” Macron said.

On the other hand, President Joe Biden has also joined Macron’s words and has expressed dissatisfaction with Meloni’s position. And it is that The US president wanted to sell the reference to abortion at the national level after becoming known the ruling of the US Supreme Court that rejects a resource to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristonethe most common in the North American country.

World whitewashing of Meloni

Giorgia Meloni is the international protagonist of the day and the one who monopolized all the cameras during the G-7 summit. A date that is marked on the calendar as the day of her definitive global whitening. The cordon sanitaire that revolved around the extreme right in Europe has been broken after years in which the Italian was not liked by her European counterparts, even seriously distrusting her policies based on polarization and expulsion as a maxim of immigrants in Italy.

However, everything indicates that the differences have been left behind, leaving Meloni’s good relationship with the G-7 leaders latent during the day this Thursday. Laughter with the British Rishi Sunakhugs with Joe Biden, confidences with the German Olaf Sholz and the Canadian Justin Trudeau… A whole series of good gestures towards Giorgia Meloni, the same one to whom they had made the cross. The least enthusiastic, Emmanuel Macronperhaps because of what is happening in France with the extreme right.