Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday condemned the "unacceptable act of repression" in Venezuela, hours after the brief arrest of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a note issued by her office at Palazzo Chigi on Friday that reports coming from Venezuela "represent another unacceptable act of repression by the regime" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Meloni received a rapturous welcome to Trump's Palm Beach resort, according to videos circulating on social media.

Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, joins just a handful of other world leaders who have been to the president-elect’s Florida estate since his victory.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday night, just weeks after the pair met in Paris for the Notre Dame reopening ceremony that saw the president-elect courting world leaders in what was a previous of his administration taking office in a little over two weeks.