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The secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, commented on the abstention of the Lega parliamentarians in the European Parliament on the resolution calling for sanctions on Belarus and the launch of an international investigation into the poisoning case of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny:
In Brussels, the League refrained from sentencing a dictator. Gross. #Lucashenko
– Nicola Zingaretti (@nzingaretti) September 17, 2020
The European Parliament adopted by majority a resolution calling for new presidential elections in Belarus and urging the European Union to sanction President Alexander Lukashenko and the perpetrators of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, suspected of being linked to the Russian government of Vladimir Putin. The resolution obtained 574 votes in favor, 37 against and 82 abstentions, including those of the members of the League.
The resolution also does not recognize the official results of the “so-called presidential elections” in Belarus on August 9 this year. According to the European Parliament, these elections were held “in violation of all internationally recognized standards”. When Lukashenko’s term expires on November 5, the European Parliament will no longer recognize him as President of Belarus.
The League’s decision not to openly take sides against the president of Belarus, a long-time ally of Russia, or those responsible for poisoning Vladimir Putin’s main opponent, was seen as a kind of “favor” to Russia. The leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini has never hidden his political proximity to Putin and relations between the League and the Kremlin have been documented, as in the case of the meeting in Moscow in October 2018 between Gianluca Savoini, Matteo’s collaborator. Salvini and president of the Lombardy-Russia association, and some Russian officials.
For that meeting, Savoini is being investigated for international corruption for an alleged sale of oil that would have been negotiated, before, after and during that meeting, between the representative of the League and Russian officials, in order to illegally bring millions of euros to he left her from Russia.
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