Elon Musk's Man in Italy: "FdI Makes Deals with the PD, Don't Call Us Anymore"

To our friends at FdI we say "don't call us anymore". Andrea Stroppa's attack on the largest majority party obviously arrives on X. Musk's representative in Italy materializes with a forceful attack on the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: a foul play that surprised many after the many openings of Meloni herself to the owner of Tesla and Starlink.

This is a threatening post that brings up an alleged agreement between FdI and Pd in ​​the Productive Activities Commission on the "space bill". A complex measure that has the objective, among other things, of regulating Italy's use of satellite technologies and, as is evident, has strong implications on national security. Naturally, the weight that Starlink could have in Italy is at stake. "PD-FdI agreement. Well, they want to pass off Starlink and SpaceX (which, among other things, has launched missions for Italy, accelerating the timing to lend a hand) as the bad guys. To the friends of FdI: avoid calling us for conferences or anything else", we read in Stroppa's harsh post. Enough for the opposition to rise up, highlighting how the intrusion of Musk's most loyal follower is blackmail to Parliament just as it is legislating on a very delicate matter. "Tomorrow in the commission we will verify whether the majority will give in to Musk's blackmail. For us, the autonomy of Parliament is sacrosanct, just as it is essential that digital sovereignty, national security and the industrial return for the country system are safeguarded", underlines the leader of the Democratic Party in the productive activities commission of the Chamber, Vinicio Peluffo. Even clearer is Avs, who with Francesca Ghirra comments: "Musk would like a free hand and the amendments of the opposition that have set boundaries have made the all-conquering tycoon lose his temper".

The 5 Star Movement is on the same page: "the Space bill is full of favors and little favors from the government patriots to the Musks of the moment. But listening to Stroppa, today Fdi realizes that this is not enough for the American magnate: he wants the road literally cleared to call the shots in Italy". The rapporteur of the bill on the space economy, Andrea Mascaretti, Fdi, intervenes in defense of his party: "It is a completely unfounded controversy, because two amendments were approved unanimously that talk about something completely different. I must also point out that no amendments were approved against or in favor of anyone. The amendments do not introduce anything new, but they reinforce the concepts of national security and industrial return for the country system, already expressed in the law". But what happened to unleash such a pandemonium? The commission approved two amendments presented by the Democratic Party that introduce criteria for maximum diversification of supplies that Italy will refer to and digital security.

"Clear limits for digital security", explained the PD deputy Andrea Casu. In essence, with the PD amendments, also signed by M5S and AVS, Azione, in article 25, the one that defines the reserve of national transmission capacity, the topic of safeguarding national security and industrial return for the country system is introduced. To go into even more detail in the text of the bill that will arrive in the Chamber next week - with the two PD amendments reformulated by the majority - it is stated that the satellite systems will be "managed exclusively by entities belonging to the European Union or the Atlantic Alliance, also in order to provide for an adequate industrial return for the country system as well as national security".