What Giorgia Meloni said in front of Pope Francis
Sacredness of life, not only an economic commitment to the birth rate and a firm no to surrogacy. Here are some topics mentioned by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, during the States General of the birth rate
The States general of the birth rate , underway at the Auditorium della conciliazione in Rome from 11 to 13 May , are dedicated to the demographic winter that Italy is going through and which puts the country's future at risk.
In 2022 there was a new negative record of births, only 392,598, against more than 700,000 deaths.
A situation that worries the Government so much that it puts our country's need for immigration on paper in the Def.
There is no trace of these references, however, in the speech that Giorgia Meloni gave on the stage of the General States of the birth rate next to Pope Francis . The premier preferred to focus on the results of her government and on the ideological approach that led her to reaffirm the value of the natural family and the "no" to the practice of gestation for others .
NATALITY PRIORITIES OF THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
During her speech, the Premier underlined that it is a precise commitment by the Government to fulfill the promises made during the electoral campaign on this issue. “Because in the end democracy is substantiated in this. In the bond that exists between the commitments you make and the actions you carry out. Since our first day of work, the government has put children, parents, mothers and fathers at the top of the political agenda – said the Premier -. We have made the birth rate, and the family, an absolute priority of our action. We did it because we want Italy to have a future again, to hope and believe in a better future than this uncertain present”.
MELONI: "CHILDREN ARE THE FIRST STONE FOR THE BUILDING OF ANY FUTURE"
Confirming the Government's commitment, the "birth rate" ended up in the title of a Ministry, the one entrusted to Mrs. Roccella, merged together with that of the family and equal opportunities. “It is not a nominalistic choice. In other words, it is not a choice of form, but of substance . It is the synthesis of a government program that wants to face with determination the great crises that Italy, and not only Italy, faces – underlines Giorgia Meloni -. And among these crises, the demographic one is undeniable, because, trivially, children are the first stone in building any future. And the work that this goal requires involves many areas”.
THE RESULTS OF THE MELONI GOVERNMENT FOR THE BIRTH RATE, FROM THE BUDGET LAW TO THE LABOR DECREE
And then the Premier goes on to claim the results of her government in relation to family policies. Starting with the budget law: "the increase in the single allowance, the strengthening of parental leave, the renewal of the facilitation interventions for young couples for the purchase of their first home". But not only that, the Premier also recalls the latest interventions contained in the Labor decree . “The right, for example, for anyone with a variable rate mortgage to convert it into a fixed rate mortgage and then the recent regulations of 1 May on the subject of work, with the inclusion allowance for families with medium-low incomes who have minors or elderly or disabled dependents, the provision of making the employer's voluntary payment structural in favor of the worker, which is completely tax-free, the so-called fringe benefit, which we want to keep at 3,000 euros, however giving priority to those has dependent children – continues the Premier -. And then the inclusion in the principles of the Fiscal Delegation Law of the composition of the family nucleus and the costs incurred for raising children, up to the revision of the system of business incentives, and much more besides”.
DENTALITY DOESN'T DEPEND ONLY ON ECONOMIC ISSUES
Giorgia Meloni adds that the falling birth rate, however, does not depend only on wages but also on the presence, or absence, of services, asylums, health care, and "on the harmonization especially for women between life and work". However, it also depends “on the ability that a society has to perceive itself as vital. To imagine one's future, to "think of oneself" in the decades to come, to be able to look beyond the here and now". And this, according to the Premier, is the greatest challenge facing our country. “ And we want to carry it forward not with the dirigiste and bankruptcy approach of those who told us in the past that, for example, with a decree jobs and wealth could be created out of nothing. No. We want to take up this challenge with a different approach: the subsidiary approach – Meloni articulates -. The approach of those who believe that the State's task is to create favorable conditions with the regulatory environment and, above all, on a cultural level, for the family, initiative, work and development”.
MELONI: "BIRTHDAY AND PARENTHOOD ARE NOT OUT OF FASHION"
Meloni, at the culmination of his speech, underlines the social value of parenthood. “We want to give back to Italians a nation in which being a father is not out of fashion and being a mother is not a private choice, but a socially recognized value – explains the leader of Fratelli d'Italia -. A nation in which everyone, men and women, rediscover the beauty of becoming parents, of welcoming, caring for and nurturing a child. A nation in which having a child is a beautiful thing that doesn't take anything away from you, that doesn't stop you from doing anything and that gives you so much".
MELONS: “CHILDREN ARE NOT COUNTER PRODUCTS”
Finally, the last invective is dedicated to the firm contrast to the practices of gestation for others. “We want a nation in which it is no longer scandalous to say that, whatever the legitimate choices and inclinations of each one, we are all born of a man and a woman – the Premier underlines, finding condescension from the audience -. In which it is not a taboo to say that motherhood is not for sale , that wombs cannot be rented, that children are not over-the-counter products, that you can choose from the shelf as if you were at the supermarket and maybe return if the product does not match to what you expected". Moreover, the majority has adopted in the Justice Commission a bill to ban surrogacy abroad, making it a universal crime . The first signature is that of Carolina Varchi , a member of parliament of the Brothers of Italy, a friend of Giorgia Meloni, an anti-abortionist and already the first signatory of the proposal on the establishment of the day of nascent life. "We want to restart from respect for the dignity, uniqueness, sacredness of every single human being , because each of us has a unique and unrepeatable genetic code and this, like it or not, has something sacred", adds the Premier in conclusion.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-ha-detto-giorgia-meloni-davanti-a-papa-francesco/ on Fri, 12 May 2023 13:58:45 +0000.