Amato, Degni, Gentiloni and more. All Meloni’s trips
Giorgia Meloni's press conference seen by Paola Sacchi
Giorgia Meloni replies with harsh frankness but at the same time is like a rubber wall in rejecting even the questions that would like to be more insidious.
Although it must be immediately recognized that the journalists at the prime minister's press conference at the beginning of the year appear more serious and relevant to the real issues of a year of government and what is to come, compared to the opposition, nearby media and social media. Who had presented the long-awaited appointment as a sort of showdown over the "gunslinger" parliamentarian Emanuele Pozzolo. No "Wild West", as the Five Star Movement had feared, no focus on the Pozzolo "arsenal", almost more than on the Hamas tunnels, just one question and another related one on the FdI ruling class. Renzian third parties also complain about this, as they now seem to be chasing the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement shouting: resignation, resignation also for the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Delmastro. For him it was a New Year's toast crime, one might say?, given that he wasn't even present at the time of the shot.
This does not mean that the prime minister with Pozzolo is drastic: referral to the FdI arbitration and guarantee commission. With his request that he be suspended from FdI, of which Meloni is president. The prime minister issues a sharp warning to his party in general, calling everyone to "have a strong and serious responsibility: I must not spend my life like this". That is, do not give in to the left, whose program appears to be to crucify it in everything, to make it "pay for everything every time".
As for the opposition's accusations, and related demand, of "family management", "familism", of a ruling class portrayed as "inadequate", the prime minister is hard-nosed: "I'm frankly fed up. However, for the Democratic Party and SI (Nicola Fratoianni's Italian Left, now in Avs with the Greens, ed. ) there is never familism”. And on her sister Arianna Meloni, head of the political secretariat of FdI: "She has been in politics for 30 years, I haven't had her nominated in a state-owned company". Objection to certain practices in force on the left with inclusion in public positions.
In defense of Matteo Salvini, who from now on announces that he and his partner Francesca Verdini will file complaints, and whose League praises "the confirmation of full harmony against mud and falsehood", Meloni squares: "They put me in mouth quotes never said, based on theorems, while it is an affair of the previous government, Salvini is not involved, he does not have to report to parliament", he concludes.
On the European elections and his possible candidacy: "We will decide together with the other leaders of the majority (the deputy prime ministers and ministers Salvini and Tajani, ed. )". The harshest blows for the left are on the case of Marcello Degni, advisor to the Court of Auditors and on Giuliano Amato's interview with La Repubblica . On Degni he underlines the silence of Elly Schlein, leader of the Democratic Party, and Paolo Gentiloni, now EU commissioner, "who appointed him": "Is it normal for a super partes figure, called to supervise public accounts, to behave like a political militant?". Meloni rejects as "brazenness" that post where Degni reproaches the Democratic Party for not having organized such an obstructionism as to allow the country to reach the provisional exercise. Post on X discovered by the economists and parliamentarians of the League, Claudio Borghi and Alberto Bagnai.
On the rejection of the ESM aimed at Giuseppe Conte, prime minister of Conte/2, whom he reproaches for having given the OK to ratify the reform "despite knowing that there was no majority in parliament to approve it". Then, "all that remained was to defer to the parliament which is sovereign".
As for Amato and his alarm about the risks of “authoritarian drift”: “I was stunned that this is said when the center-right wins. It could be considered authoritarian drift when the right and left do not have the same rights." Otherwise, Meloni adds with a hint of sarcasm, “what do we do? Are they all constitutional councilors of the Democratic Party?". Ready to confront Schlein, but "regardless of the fact that we are women": "From prime minister to PD leader who deals with all political issues".
Finally, "the so-called Gag law", which saw the absence of Fnsi leaders as a protest but paradoxically a packed house of journalists. Meloni invites people to protest in front of parliament, not at Palazzo Chigi, because "it is an amendment by an opposition parliamentarian (the liberal Enrico Costa of Action, ed. )". The law approved in the Chamber provides that the entire precautionary order, including long clips of wiretaps, will not be published before the trial. Meloni recalls that it was like this until 2017, when Andrea Orlando's (Pd) measure passed. And he closes: “Is everyone gagged until 2017?”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-conferenza-stampa-cosa-ha-detto/ on Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:26:17 +0000.