The budget law “can and should be improved”, but it is not “a catastrophe”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, while in the Chamber we are witnessing the race against time to approve the maneuver, defends it and encourages her MPs not to give up, to “stay in the Chamber until the last day: they say that the game is worth the candle .”
The Prime Minister gathers in Montecitorio deputies and senators for the Christmas votes and encourages them, at the beginning of a day that will take her to know the diplomatic corps and then return to TV for the first time as head of government, in Porta a Porta, where he guarantees that “Italy does not access the Mes. I can sign with blood.”
Three opportunities to take stock, not financial but general, of the executive’s performance on several fronts, from migrants to foreign policy, from basic income to Pos. Announce the departure, last night, for Iraq where he will visit the Italian soldiers. «Among the thousand difficulties, even in the current period, with complex days for the budget law and despite everything that can and should be improved, in front of those who expected and foreshadowed a departure from the government as a catastrophe, I think that this story is against us pleasantly returning to him like a boomerang», Meloni begins to speak to the parliamentarians, to whom he announces his departure for Iraq at night, to «bring good wishes to our soldiers engaged in peacekeeping missions», who «surely sacrifice more of our “.
The prime minister will travel to the Italian base in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, and then also to Baghdad. “Another 4-5 ministers are leaving for so many destinations where our military are engaged”, he adds, before toasting with the distinguished ladies and senators, who receive a panettone from the Sicilian company “Fiasconaro” as a gift in a special package signed by the stylists Dolce and Gabbana. Then the Prime Minister moves to the Farnesian Conference of Female and Male Ambassadors. Here the focus is foreign policy and in particular the conflict in Ukraine, on which “Italy has done what it had to do and will continue to do”, he assures, stating that “the guiding star of our commitment is the search for a dialogue and a just peace”. As a corollary, he adds that “military spending is necessary to defend national interests” and invites Italians to “turn off the lights for an hour a day to see how they are doing and what these people are doing to defend their freedom”.
Later, he announces a telephone conversation with “Zelensky before Christmas, because I want to wish the Ukrainian people a happy birthday”, and the trip to Kiev “which I would like to make in the coming months of next year”. Change of scenery for Bruno Vespa’s full interview at Rai studios. Where internal issues occupy the court above all else. Among them is the ratification of the Mes – “if we are the only ones who do not approve the reform, we also block the others”, but “it is not a big subject and Parliament will discuss it”, he says – and then he opens the chapter on migrants: “Those we welcome are the ones who have money to give to smugglers. It is not an intelligent way to manage refugees and immigration”, he attacks, alleging “frictions with France”.
But the main appeal that Meloni intends to reiterate is optimism. At the end of the legislature, “I hope for an optimistic Italy that trusts its institutions”, is the hope of the prime minister, who for her part is confident: “I’m not afraid”, she guarantees, “I know what I’m getting into, what are the powers I’m dealing with, what are the encrustations and I know that we will find many traps on this path. I have nothing to lose» and «the only thing that scares me is to disappoint».
Source: IL Tempo
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