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All the ideas of Lorenzo Fontana, the new Speaker of the House, on Russia, NATO, the EU, abortion and gay

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All the ideas of Lorenzo Fontana, the new Speaker of the House, on Russia, NATO, the EU, abortion and gay

Here are the thoughts and ideas of the new Speaker of the House, Lorenzo Fontana (Lega), on Russia, Putin, NATO, Europe, immigration, abortion, gay and more.

Veneto, Catholic and Northern League. Three adjectives that well describe Lorenzo Fontana , since 2016 Head of Foreign Affairs for the League, and a few hours ago president of the Chamber of Deputies , elected with 222 votes (no difficulty after yesterday's impasse for the election of the new president of the Senate ). He started as a city councilor in his city. As Eurosceptic he was MEP from 2009 to 2018, Minister for Disability and the Family and from July 2019 Minister for European Affairs during the Conte I government.

Here are the thoughts and ideas of the new Speaker of the House on Russia, Putin, NATO, Europe, marriage, abortion, gay and more.

PRAISE TO THE PUTINIAN AWAKENING

“I saw in the Putinian awakening a light also for us Westerners, who live the great crisis of values, immersed as we are in a society culturally dominated by ethical relativism ”, he said in an interview with the Press . In 2014 he went to Crimea for the annexation referendum as an international observer, and again his position was clear. “Considering that the yes to the aforementioned referendum has reached 96.6% , what are the reasons on which the EU demonstrates political aversion to you? – he asked himself – The people of Crimea feel they have returned to their parent company, the EU should take a step back on sanctions against Russia ”.

ENOUGH SANCTIONS TO RUSSIA

This position is accompanied by the request, to tell the truth common to many members of the League, to review, if not cancel, the sanctions against Russia following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. "To say that the sanctions on Russia must be reviewed does not mean being pro-Putinians, but pro-Italians – said Fontana during an interview with Libero on 4 September -. And then let's make it clear that being against sanctions does not mean supporting Russia. The League immediately made it clear that Putin's war is madness. Whoever invades a sovereign country is always wrong ”. The final gloss does not cast doubt on the opposition to the sanctions. " But after six months of sanctions it is clear that they have hit Europe and not Russia which, on the contrary, thanks to the new markets that have opened to it, is creating an enormous surplus". Fontana draws the reasons for his opposition to the sanctions from the increase in the costs of energy raw materials that they have caused. “After all, the energy dependence that, for example Italy and Germany, which are the strongest manufacturers in Europe, had towards Russia was well known – continues the new Speaker of the Chamber -. We knew and we know that it would take years to diversify energy supplies and achieve independence from Russia ”.

NO DOUBT ABOUT ATLANTISM

If the new Speaker of the Chamber has any doubts about Europeanism and the position of our country in the European forum, there is no doubt about Italy's international position. In an interview with the Gazette on the crisis in Ukraine, he said that the League “has no possibility of misunderstanding in favor of the Atlantic Alliance and that any decision taken by the Atlantic Alliance on this front will inevitably also be the decision that the League will take. Even on sanctions ".

IN EUROPE WITH FRANCE AND GERMANY

"In Europe, only the interests of individual sovereign states count", but in a split Europe, between France and Germany who are pushing for peace , and Eastern Europe which for "history and culture are deeply anti-Soviet and are opposed to any revision of the sanctions ”, he has no doubts about the position of Italy . “ With France and Germany , of course, also because ahead of this step we risk paying a double price to the international crisis”.

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE LEGA LORENZO FONTANA

As head of politics for the League, he established relations with the Front (now Rassemblement) National of Marine Le Pen, with the Golden Dawn in Greece and it was his task to bring the Carroccio to the Eurosceptic group Enf. In the past, he expressed appreciation for Viktor Orban's policy in Hungary: "Thanks to him, the birth rate has risen from 1.3 children per woman to 1.6".

SUPER CATHOLIC FOUNTAIN

Lorenzo Fontana is the representative of the Catholic vote in the League. Traditionalist and conservative, married in the Tridentine rite to a woman of Neapolitan origins with whom he has a daughter. On social media, almost daily, he remembers the saint of the day . In his first speech as Speaker of the Chamber he recalled Blessed Carlo Acutis, who passed away at the age of 15 due to fulminant leukemia. In 2019, as Minister for Family and Disability of the Conte I government, he was the political godfather of the XIII World Congress of Families (WCF) bringing with him the then Minister of the Interior and vice president on stage. of the Council Matteo Salvini and the former Minister of Education Marco Bussetti. Almost as faithful to the Catholic Church as to Hellas Verona, it has been a subscriber in the curve since 1999.

THE POSITIONS ON GAYS AND ABORTION BY LORENZO FONTANA

As a fervent Catholic, Fontana has often sided absolutely against any abortion practice, defined by himself as "the first cause of femicide in the world", adding that "if life is not respected from conception to the natural end, it leads to aberrations". On abortion, while he was minister, he also said that “in many cases it is due to economic concerns that some women decide not to have children. I would like the state to be closer to these women to make them understand that, when in doubt, a child is better off ”. And again: " I want to intervene to strengthen the counseling centers so as to try to dissuade women from having an abortion ". In the volume “ The empty cradle of civilization. At the origin of the crisis " , signed together with the economist and former president of the IOR Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, Fontana attributes the identity crisis of the West to the" new proponents of creative unions inspired by a vision of the world that portrays itself as 'modern' but which is actually hostile to man ”. As minister of Count I, he said that "according to the law, rainbow families do not exist at the moment", immediately recalled by Senator Monica Cirinnà to take a reality bath.

IMMIGRATION, POLITICS AND CATECHISM

On immigration, he also provided an interpretation of the Holy Scriptures: “We should look at the catechism a little. There is a passage to take into account: 'love your neighbor', that is, the one in your proximity. So, first of all we try to make our communities feel good ”. The newly elected Speaker of the Chamber linked the issue of immigration to that of the birth rate. "The left would like to compensate for the demographic decline by importing immigrants, but the multicultural society has failed."

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-idee-di-lorenzo-fontana-nuovo-presidente-della-camera-su-russia-nato-ue-aborto-e-gay/ on Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:56:43 +0000.