Spiropali Responds to Criticism: Speaks of Ordinary Attacks and Hallucinatory Conspiracies

In a post on Facebook, Elisa Spiropali, former Speaker of Parliament, reacted to the criticism directed at her, which she described as banal. She also said that obscene language and hallucinatory conspiracies are being used against her.

In her reaction, Spiropali shared this message:

Good morning. When your minds are overwhelmed and confused by denunciatory leaflets, banal attacks, digital and operational monitoring, algorithmic control, hallucinatory conspiracies, and obscene language, read this masterpiece by Anna Akhmatova, who was born on this day in 1889.

So many stones were thrown over me

That today not one of them frightens me,

With them a graceful tower was built,

It stands taller than any other tower.

I thank its builders,

Though they built it in haste.

From it I savor the dawn more quickly

And gaze longer at the sun in the west.

And at my window day after day,

A sea breeze blows, refreshing me.

A dove comes and pecks at my hand,

And if I can no longer write something myself,

One godlike, light-winged day,

I wait for the Muse to come and write it herself.