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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Giorgia Meloni condemns Italian union leader for ‘Trump courtesan’ remark

Giorgia Meloni
Meloni said leftwingers had ‘lectured us on respect for women’ for decades only to then criticise a woman by ‘calling her a prostitute’. Photograph: Simona Granati/Corbis/Getty Images

Giorgia Meloni has condemned the boss of Italy’s biggest trade union after he referred to the prime minister as the “courtesan” of Donald Trump.

Maurizio Landini, the leader of CGIL, which organised several pro-Palestinian protests before the Gaza ceasefire deal, made the remarks on TV on Tuesday, the day after world leaders, including Meloni, met in Egypt for a Middle East peace summit.

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