Government Meloni, the news of today 12 October live

ROME. “The situation in Italy is not easy, we cannot waste time,” said the leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni regarding the presidency of the Senate. With Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi “we will see each other later, but I am optimistic”, she added as she entered the Chamber.

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Gelmini: “The emergency is the dear energy, not the totoministri”
“I am not very fond of totoministri – declares al Tg1 Mariastella Gelmini, Minister for Regional Affairs – As Action-Italia Viva we have no prejudices, we will make a serious and rigorous opposition on the merits, on the contents. I am part of the outgoing government therefore, also for a matter of style, it seems wrong to express judgments. We await the facts. The real emergency is the expensive energy and the cost of electricity and gas bills. Carlo Calenda presented our proposal, that is a national ceiling on the cost of bills, we have identified the coverage and we think it is urgent that it be taken into consideration because there are too many companies that risk closing. Unfortunately, Europe is lagging behind in defining a gas price cap, at the moment we have to do it alone. Must hurry”.

12.21 – Calenda: “The opposition is divided if it starts from ideology”
«The opposition is divided if part of the ideology, like the demonstrations on peace. For us, the opposition starts on essential proposals, such as the one on bills. The opposition must make proposals as if it were in government, then if Meloni attacks any rights we will be uncompromising, even in the streets, ”said Carlo Calenda at a round table on the PNRR at the Festival of the cities, organized by Ali.

12.19 – At Montecitorio, 250 out of 400 deputies have already registered
About 250 out of 400 deputies have already completed the reception procedures in Montecitorio in view of the first session of the new legislature, called for tomorrow morning. Giuseppe Conte, Enrico Letta, Antonio Tajani, among others, have already passed to the reception center set up in the Sala del Mappamondo of Montecitorio. There is time to complete the procedures until Friday at 8 pm, but it is foreseeable that those who have not yet done so will present themselves tomorrow, after having participated in the first call for the election of the Montecitorio president.

12.09 – Fazzolari (FdI): “There is agreement on presidencies of the Chambers”
“There is an agreement. There are no problems”. The senator of the Brothers of Italy, Giovanbattista Fazzolari, told the reporters in Montecitorio about the choice of the new presidents of the Senate and the Chamber.

11.53 – Salvini convenes the federal council
The Northern League secretary Matteo Salvini called a Federal Council of the League today at 4 pm to take stock of the situation. He lets the party know.

11.45 – Fazzolari: “Summit between leaders to better outline the picture”
«The meeting between Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi will serve to better delineate the picture because obviously it’s all an interlocking game. As long as one does not have all the boxes in question defined. But not because there are particular critical issues, ”said FdI senator Giovanbattista Fazzolari, head of the party’s program, arriving at the group’s offices in the Chamber, shortly after the leader Giorgia Meloni and Ignazio La Russa. “The whole picture is being discussed in a very calm way with the allies, but not because there are critical issues on specific points – added Fazzolari -. But until the picture is defined as a whole, everything is at stake ».

11.32 – Donzelli (FdI): “We await the assignment”
“We do not talk about the hypotheses of the ministers as long as there is no appointment by the President of the Republic to the prime minister in charge. At that moment you will discover that the list of ministers is ready and that there is serenity in the center-right, there is compactness and that many words have been spent in recent days because obviously there were to wait for the institutional paths. I read that some journalists, some commentators, say: “Well, Meloni, why isn’t she ready yet?”. We are ready. We simply cannot go and deposit the list of ministers because there is no prime minister in charge ». These are the words of the deputy of the Brothers of Italy, Giovanni Donzelli, at Agorà Rai3, on the composition of the next government team.

11.31 – La Russa: “Everything is going positively for the coalition”
«Everything is going well for the coalition. I am an optimist”. Thus the senator of FdI Ignazio La Russa, before entering the offices of the Group in the Chamber, where, in addition to the leader Giorgia Meloni, also Giovanbattista Fazzolari and Giovanni Donzelli and Andrea Delmastro arrived.