Here are thorns and challenges by Giorgia Meloni
The Meloni Agenda after the holidays. The point of Battista Falconi
The return of politics to full operation scheduled for tomorrow, Monday 28 August, closes a holiday break that some journalists have defined, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, "too long": we report it here to give an idea of the level at which media commentary on institutional policy fell. And it opens what the obvious rhetoric of the newspapers calls a "hot autumn".
In fact, however, the hot season really will be. Meanwhile for the economy, since the government will have to close the maneuver without counting on the extenuating factor of having entered a running train, making a choice of cuts in expenses, therefore in public services, the consequences of which, above all, seems to be health care: a choice very painful but inevitable, given the cash flow problems which are certainly no less than those of last year. Then there is a very intense international front, in particular for debating the European rules and agreements that bind our economy and our daily life. Finally, the purely political level, of which the most thorny issue is undoubtedly migration. In this regard, as the President of the Republic, Giorgia Meloni, the Deputy Prime Ministers and some ministers have said – unanimously, for once – we are substantially alone in Europe. However, the government is also abandoned by the mayors, many of whom, with good reasons tainted by specular political contradictions of the right or left, have already declared a flat rate with respect to their possibilities of welcoming migrants in the area.
Luca Ricolfi is right when he claims that politics has "too many open questions". It may be said that this is physiological, since its role is to act as a catalyst for any problem, as a synthesis of the various social interests, but one wonders whether, for example, it might not be appropriate to change the approach with respect to issues such as bad weather, floods, natural disasters, interrupting the practice whereby all damages suffered by citizens must be 100% reimbursed by the State. Then there would certainly be a suggestion to institutions, leaders and ministers to slow down the pace of their interlocutions with respect to the frantic pursuit of social media that dictate the agenda today. Rightly, Sabino Cassese observes that one cannot be surprised if congresses are not held, as some complain in Fratelli d'Italia.
A third bad habit that politics and parties could abandon to focus on the most important issues, by the way, is that of fighting the battles both externally and internally in parallel. Meloni, to say, must be looked at both from Schlein, Conte, Landini, Bonelli and Magi but also from Salvini and Tajani. In view above all from the European elections, the competition between allies is at least equal to that towards the oppositions, sometimes even higher. Let us then proceed with a new edition of the fraud law, if we want to interrupt the coalition governments and guarantee the government of the country to a single party (whereupon the problem would arise again with the current dynamics, as happened in the first republic to the Christian Democrats).
Meloni is also right when, in the interview with "Chi", he says that Palazzo Chigi is like a roller coaster. Only in the next few days, internal commitments aside, will she have meetings in Athens, Delhi, Brussels, New York… even this, however, is reproached by some opposition journalists, as if going on a mission abroad were luxurious entertainment. Let's say that, to save time, the president was right to ignore what for too many days has been the absurd fulcrum of the Italian debate, the book by General Vannacci . Follow this golden tactic more often, it will help you to strengthen your already excellent personal popularity (most popular prime minister after a year in government since Berlusconi's time).
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-spine-e-sfide-di-giorgia-meloni/ on Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:59:16 +0000.