What the Chamber will do against foreign influences
What the Speaker of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, said on differentiated autonomy, Qatargate and Mes. Paola Sacchi's note
“The sanctions? They work. But it is clear that our population will also have to hold on and I hope that citizens understand that we are in a difficult situation, this war has no logical explanation, I hope it will end soon, for everyone's good. Above all of Ukraine”. But that's not all: “My pro Putin t-shirt? Yes, I would avoid it. It was 2014, can I tell? These T-shirts were particularly ugly, I had different hair (he points to his current baldness smiling, ed .). Mistakes of youth, you can call them”.
Calm and rounded speech, with traits of mild irony, all from the Veneto region, for his first Christmas greetings to the Parliamentary Press, the first Northern League president (after Irene Pivetti for the Northern League back in 1994), indicated by Matteo Salvini's National League, the exact opposite of how certain vulgate media had described him is confirmed, also on the wave of insults with which part of the left opposition had welcomed the third state office. Lorenzo Fontana, president of Montecitorio, is not that sort of "Putinian, racist, fundamentalist" UFO or anything else with which he was "honored" by the opposition for his election.
For those who know a little about the Lega of yesterday and today, President Fontana confirms himself rather a "demo-Leghista", heir with Luca Zaia of that Venetian Liga, the first of all leagues, which has its roots in the largely in the Christian Democrats. As for his Catholicism, his fifty Hail Marys a day, for which the former minister of the Family and then of European Affairs, three degrees, a fourth in course at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was painted like a fundamentalist, he limits himself in the end to saying to journalists "Merry Christmas, it's the main reason why we met".
But the rest of his Christmas greetings concern something else, in a normal and cordial atmosphere. The questions, introduced by the president of the Asp, Adalberto Signore, are all there and the answers as well. To the journalist of the Manifesto on Differentiated Autonomy, Northern League banner, Fontana replies that it is already in the Constitution but that he hopes "a good debate in parliament on the proposal by Minister Roberto Calderoli". He recalls that in any case "while for presidentialism the Constitution needs to be changed and times are different", for Autonomy the procedure is simpler.
Great attention to rights, then, for a room more accessible to disabled people. The goal of a nursery, after the "good result obtained by the majority and the opposition" for the possibility of breastfeeding in the classroom.
But it is above all on the "Qatargate" that the questions are concentrated. Fontana says he is a "guarantee" but is firm in the need to counter the risks of "infiltration, foreign influences", by states or multinationals towards politics and the apparatus of officials. The goal is to arrive at a "code of conduct" also for the Italian parliament and to strengthen the cybersecurity apparatus. On the Mes: “Parliament will decide whether to ratify the treaty. But I hope that in the opposite direction there will be no revenge from the EU". On the budget law and the frantic final race: "I try to make a synthesis between the right grievances of the opposition and the right determinations of the majority".
It ends with a note of color on a decisive theme: energy. Fontana recalls that there is also a "good daily practice to be respected", such as the elementary one of turning off the light when you leave. "Sometimes it happens to me in this historic building to go around turning off the lights in the evening", smiles the "demo-Lega supporter" president. Who mentions his League in a passage to remember Roberto Maroni, when "Bossi asked him for posters".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/lorenzo-fontana-autonomia-differenziata-mes/ on Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:38:33 +0000.