ROME (AP) — Italian President Sergio Mattarella was scolded harshly Elon Musk He will weigh in on the Italian field on Wednesday. Decisions that disrupt the government’s plans To carry out the procedures of some refugees in Albania.

Musk is expected to have a senior advisory role. Donald Trump’s new administrationHe wrote on X on Tuesday that “these judges need to go.” He was referring to the Italian court’s recent decision against him. Right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Albania immigration deal.

In a follow-up post on Wednesday, Musk wrote: “This is unacceptable. “Do the people of Italy live in a democracy or do an unelected autocracy call the shots?”

The tweets were about the Rome court’s refusal to rule on a formal request to detain seven migrants rescued at sea and transported to Albania for processing.

Monday’s ruling resulted in the men being brought to Italy for processing and was Meloni’s second defeat in the judiciary. The much talked about plan to outsource to Albania Procedures of some male refugees.

Mattarella did not mention Musk by name but made clear he was referring to him on Wednesday in an unusually tense statement. Italy’s president demanded respect for Italy’s sovereignty, especially from soon-to-be public servants.

“Italy is a great democratic country and… knows how to fend for itself while respecting its Constitution,” Mattarella said in a statement released by his spokesman.

“Everyone, especially if they are about to assume an important government role in a friendly and allied country, as has been announced, should respect the sovereignty of this country and not attribute to themselves the task of giving prescriptions,” the statement said.

Trump announced Tuesday that Musk, one of the most influential people around the president-elect, will help lead the Department of Government Efficiency, essentially an independent advisory panel to eliminate waste and fraud.

Musk is a supporter of Meloni and has met him several times in Rome and attended an awards ceremony on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September. Their photos together created such a buzz that Musk apparently felt the need to quash speculation by tweeting, “We’re not dating.”

The court decisions raised the ire of Meloni’s far-right-led government, which is seeking strategies to ease the pressure on the arrival of migrants to Italy seeking a better life in Europe. The government has postponed the opening of centers in Albania as a central element of the fight against migration and also as a means of deterrence, saying they could be closed. A model for Europe.

In both cases, Italian courts referred the cases to the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg to decide whether the migrants’ countries of origin were considered safe countries for return. There is no information on when the European court may rule.

However, as a result of the Rome court decisions, no immigrants have yet been processed in the Albanian centers, whose construction and operation were budgeted to cost Italy 670 million euros ($730 million) in five years.

The Italian opposition says the money would be better spent on strengthening Italian-run migrant processing centres, while human rights groups say outsourcing asylum processes is against international law.

centers opened in October After a delay of months as crumbling soil at one center needed to be repaired. They are administered by Italy and are under Italian jurisdiction; Albanian guards provide external security.