Biden said Meloni’s election last year suggested democracy might not survive.
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday invited Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to visit the White House — despite previously calling her ascent cause to doubt whether democracy can “be sustained in the 21st century.”to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of the Friday one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
“President Biden spoke with Italian Prime Minister Meloni tonight on the phone following the President’s trip to Ukraine and ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit to Ukraine,” the White House said. A White House invite isn’t automatic for major allies. For example, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who took office on Oct. 25, just three days after Meloni, hasn’t yet booked a trip to DC, despite the longstanding “special relationship” between the world’s largest English-speaking countries.Meloni’s right-wing populist party Brothers of Italy won the country’s parliamentary election on Sept. 25 — prompting Biden to describe her win as a threat to global democracy.
“You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. And the reason I bother to say that is we can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either,” Biden went on. “I don’t want to exaggerate it, but I don’t want to understate it.”
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