It is an open confrontation between Democratic Party secretary Enrico Letta and the chairman of the council in pectore, Giorgia Meloni. Ignite the gunpowder were the choices of the center-right to elect Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, respectively, for the presidency of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Divisive choices for the country, the Democratic Party says in chorus. And from Berlin, where he is at the PSE congress, Letta adds that the choices made represent alarming messages for the rest of Europe as well. For the leader of the dem it is “a perverse and incendiary logic” that led to the choice of La Russa and Fontana, “which goes against the interests of the country”. There is, therefore, no possibility of opening a channel of communication between the majority and the opposition.
Meloni’s answer was not long in coming. “The words spoken by the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta on the sidelines of the congress of European Socialists in Berlin are very serious”, explains the president of the FdI: “Affirming abroad that the election of the presidents of the two branches of the Italian Parliament is motivated by a self-styled ‘logical and incendiary perversity’ and that the choice of Italian parliamentarians confirms that the worst concerns across Europe are scandalous and damage Italy, its highest institutions and its international credibility. Letta immediately apologizes.” Letta’s words that, for Meloni, are added to the statements of “various political exponents” who “decided to make “Ignazio La Russa” a target, as a person and for his ideas, reigniting a climate of hatred, already well fed during a electoral campaign built on the demonization of the political opponent This is a reference to the writings against La Russa that appeared on the shutter of an FdI club in Garbatella and signed with a five-pointed star.
A gesture to which the secretary of the Pd responds by expressing his solidarity and that of the entire Pd to the president of the Senate. Faced with this climate, Meloni assures us, however, that “our commitment will be to unite the nation, not to divide it as we try to do. I hope that the sense of political responsibility will prevail over ideological hatred, because Italy and Italians have to get back together again.” Assurances that don’t convince the dem. Labor Minister Andrea Orlando notes that “Meloni said he is committed to uniting the country, not dividing it. And they elected La Russa and Fontana. And if they wanted to share, what did they do?”. Emanuele Fiano adds: “Giorgia Meloni says her commitment is to unite the country, but she starts in the most divisive way possible.” But what worries the dem is also the outbreak of conflicts within the majority that, as the secretary of the dem points out, cannot give “a government to the country”.
The reference is to the question and answer between Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi, about that “I am not blackmailable” scanned by Meloni in favor of the cameras. And if Letta needs a government that responds to the country’s emergencies, starting with expensive bills, and not an executive engaged in an internal conflict, for Carlo Calenda it is “a government that starts lame” and that “in the first stone runs the risk of to fall”. The former president of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, also addresses this point: “In the fights and in the diatribe that I am not interested in getting into, I hope that the Italians will soon have important measures in a complicated moment, the important thing is that Parliament immediately starts working to deal with emergencies from high accounts ». The response to the opposition comes from Matteo Salvini: “The left does not resign and violently attacks the second and third positions of the State, which have just been democratically elected”, writes Salvini on Twitter, assuring that “the League and the centre-right will respond with a smile and I am working on these violent attacks, and I am sure that even between Giorgia and Silvio the harmony that will be fundamental to govern, well and together, for the next five years will return”.
Source: IL Tempo
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