Throughout the G-7 summit, which runs from Thursday by way of Saturday, Italy is welcoming leaders from the European Union and 6 different industrialized nations, together with President Biden. There, leaders will focus on the warfare in Ukraine and different international points.
Photos from the brawl had been splashed throughout the nation’s newspaper entrance pages Thursday. The lawmakers had clashed over a invoice that seeks to grant sure areas additional autonomy. Opponents of the controversial proposal say it can additional exacerbate the north-south divide within the nation and produce extra hardship to the impoverished south.
Footage taken moments earlier than the brawl reveals opposition social gathering member Leonardo Donno trying to present an Italian flag to Minister Roberto Calderoli. As Donno approaches, Calderoli rejects the tricolor flag and backs away. Inside seconds, others within the decrease chamber be part of the fray, shoving each other and throwing punches into the gang.
Donno later advised Italian information company Adnkronos that he “acquired shut” to Calderoli, in an try handy him the flag and “nothing else.”
“Then, chaos ensued,” Donno stated. “I didn’t simply get kicked a number of instances, I additionally obtained a really robust blow to my sternum, and I collapsed as a result of I might not breathe.”
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Donno stated the incident scared him and that he was handled by docs in hospital.
Legislative brawls have a protracted historical past of enjoying out in parliaments all over the world.
In Taiwan, lawmakers have thrown punches, chairs, eggs and water balloons throughout bouts of parliamentary violence. In 2020, legislators threw pig hearts, intestines and lungs by way of the air after the ruling social gathering determined to permit imports of U.S. pork that contained the additive ractopamine.
Ukraine additionally has a protracted historical past of parliamentary brawling, with fights breaking out over private issues, home points and worldwide issues. In 2017, Uganda’s parliament was taken off the air after a brawl broke out between lawmakers who hurled chairs at one another as they fought over President Yoweri Museveni’s efforts to increase his rule.
Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.
