Move forward together, focused on the financial maneuver, lowering the tone and, possibly, avoiding new parliamentary stumbles. After rollercoaster days, the majority is trying to regroup and ease tensions linked to the vote on the Rai license, which saw the center-right split in the Senate Budget Committee, a delicate parliamentary step that created fibrillations in the coalition supporting the government of Giorgia Meloni, especially between Lega and Forza Italia. The imperative now, however, is to dampen, isolate, fall asleep. Prevent the dialectic between the majority forces from resulting in a fight, with disastrous consequences in the discussion regarding the budget law that will keep parliamentary committees and chambers busy for almost the entire month of December.
There are those who have no illusions and speak of a mere “armed truce”, convinced that divisions will resurface sooner or later, and those who trust in everyone’s sense of responsibility and the effectiveness of Meloni’s moral suasion after “the stumble” in the Commission, which for Palazzo Chigi “does not benefit anyone”. After the harsh exchange of accusations between Fi and Lega, the center-right tries to restore calm. There are no “personal problems” with Salvini and “there are no wars” within the center-right after the vote on the Rai license, guarantees the deputy prime minister and leader of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani, who invites the left “not to delude themselves that for an amendment that we did not vote for, there are problems in the majority .” The Italian number one specifies that Fi has no intention of “stealing votes” from the League, the objective – he highlights – is to “grow the coalition” by supporting the government “with great determination”. Even Forzista spokesman Raffaele Nevi throws water on the fire, after the “paraculetto” with which he allegedly addressed League secretary Matteo Salvini: “My sentence was extrapolated from broader reasoning. In fact, we confirm that we get along well with Salvini, sometimes it is normal for there to be differences of ideas, but we are all working to give Italians a better future”, explains Nevi to the microphones of ‘Un giorno da pecora’, adding: «Salvini understood what happened like the intelligent person he is. These instrumental attacks strengthen the government, rather than a crisis.”
Despite attempts to calm the waters, the alert level remains high. The League’s Gian Marco Centinaio sends a message to Fi’s allies: «Calling Matteo Salvini a ‘paraculetto’ means insulting all members of the Northern League. And we, paraculists, are not. Let’s avoid these insults and get back to working seriously on the program for which the Italians voted for us”, writes the vice-president of the Senate on social media, relaunching the interview with Repubblica in which he speaks of the “sparkling air” within the coalition that is at risk of becoming “unbreathable”, as in the time of the yellow-green government of which he was minister. In IDE, the increasing level of conflict between the coalition partners is seen with due concern. It’s not good for us”, says a former Melonian parliamentarian with the microphones turned off, “if we don’t all calm down, the accident is always there and the polls at that point would no longer be such a distant scenario, even for a government. with a consensus as broad as ours…” In front of the notebooks, however, the team’s order is to minimize and classify the disputes as mere majority dialectics.
Source: IL Tempo
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