They argue about the budget, while they differ on assets and Ukraine. But in the ‘no’ corner to the ice cream corner desired by the majority and opened for the first time a few days ago in the Chamber canteen, the wide field was packed.
The six flavors of artisanal ice cream chosen by the centre-right police commissioner on September 17 are selling well but ‘reek’ of casteism and for this reason Five stars (who voted against the honor cup) keep it away from the refrigerated counter where the cream is displayed. Today their leader Giuseppe Conte asked a question about the color of the day (”Ice cream yes, ice cream no?”) in an even tone: ”I’m on a diet…”.
Also to boycott the parliamentary party center-left. Angelo Bonelli, a representative of the Alliance of Greens and the Left and one of the spokespeople for Green Europe, explained to Adnkronos: ”I have not tasted the ice cream, I find it absurd that in the House the majority is dealing with a cup of cream and not with the problems of the Italian people. They have lost touch with reality,” said the Green exponent. In the line of star Nicola Fratoianni, who doesn’t eat sweets and usually consumes coffee and boiled eggs in Montecitorio bars: ”Given the social situation in the country, this could have been avoided… Besides, I think there are some ice cream parlors not too far from the Palazzo Montecitorio,” the leader of the Italian Left ironically told Adnkronos, insisting: ”If they took care of Italians’ salaries, it would be better”. Francesco Mari, also of the Avs, joked about being tempted by greed: ”Let’s see what it’s like… Does it seem like it’s going to change every week? They thought of everything, with this ice cream they trapped us…”.
Matteo Richetti, head of the Action in the Chamber group, even spoke out against its discussion: ”I learned about ice cream from the newspapers. With the existing problems..”. In the Democratic Party, the Honorable Coppetta’s objections were blunt: Marco Furfaro, an Elly Schlein loyalist, did not mince words: ”They make us look bad, I don’t understand why they can’t go to the employee bar downstairs to consume packaged ice cream like mere mortals do…”. Democratic Senator Dario Franceschini in his ‘going’ to Montecitorio did not hesitate and underscored Adnkronos: ”I only eat ice cream of the bipartisan Senate…”. Matteo Orfini quipped: ”I am a big fan of ice cream, we will see, I have to understand the origins of this ice cream, however, I have no political line on this issue”.
