Lucio Barani, leader of Italy’s Liberal Popular Alliance-Autonomies bloc, is heading a delegation visiting Cairo to discuss Egyptian-Italian relations. He said at a press conference on Sunday (Arabic, 28:46) that he will call on Italian authorities to lift Egypt travel warnings and resume the sale of F-16 parts to Cairo. He added that an press conference will be held in Rome on Wednesday to discuss outcomes of the delegation’s visit. “Egypt and Italy should not continue paying the price for a terrorist act,” the Egyptian European Council’s Mohamed Abou El Enein said, referring to the murder of Cambridge PhD student Guilo Regeni in Cairo earlier this year.

Readers may recall Lucio Barani was previously suspended from the Italian senate last year after being accused of making obscene gestures at a female Senator. “The alleged gestures enraged other senators, plunging the chambers in chaos.” Barani denied making the gestures. The Liberal Popular Alliance-Autonomies bloc, a pro-government alliance, controls 8 out of 630 seats in the lower Chamber of Deputies and 18 out of 315 seats in the Italian Senate.