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"It's over", CNN: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is separated from her partner after his sexist comments on television
2023-10-20 23:26:28 / BOTA
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she had split from her TV journalist partner Andrea Giambruno, who has faced criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments made on and off the air.
"My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here," wrote Meloni on her accounts on social networks.
"Our ways have changed for some time and it's time to admit it," she added.
According to CNN, the split comes as the 46-year-old prime minister celebrates her first year in office at the head of a right-wing coalition government that has championed the traditional family as one of the hallmarks of her politics.
Meloni said she would not be distracted by the difficulties in her private life, saying that "all those who hoped to weaken me by hitting me at home" would not succeed.
The couple, who met in a TV studio in 2014, have a 7-year-old daughter.
Giambruno, 42, is the host of a news program broadcast by Mediaset, part of the MFE ( MFEB.MI ) media group owned by the heirs of the late Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister and Meloni ally.
This week, another Mediaset satirical current affairs TV show aired off-air video clips from Giambruno's program showing him using foul language, and harassing and provoking a female colleague.
In the second, clearer recording aired on Thursday, Giambruno is heard bragging about an affair and telling female co-workers he wants to have a threesome, even meeting one of them.
The journalist had already been widely criticized for his apparent victim-blaming comments following a gang-rape case.
"If you go dancing, you have every right to get drunk, there shouldn't be any kind of misunderstanding and any kind of problem, but if you avoid getting drunk and losing your senses, you can also avoid facing certain problems and coming face to face with a wolf" , he said during his program.
Meloni had said after that episode that she should not be judged for her partner's comments and that she would not answer questions about his behavior in the future.
Marco Furfaro of the opposition Democratic Party said Giambruno's comments were “pure chauvinism and sexism…. unspeakable filth.”
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