let’s row together, put aside quarrels and personalities»- Corriere.it

They are an example of “dedication, generosity and creativity”, but also of unity, the ability to work as a team, “addressing a united and single country, with the duty to ensure everyone the same rights, the same services”: the president of the Giorgia Meloni, invited to speak to the mayors of villages under 15,000 inhabitants for the Polis project of Poste Italiana, is full of compliments for the first citizens, but she also adopts them as a model to send a strong political message to those who see differentiated lanes : «Rowing together, set aside quarrels and personalities», suggests Meloni, because «Italy is one, unique and united», the prime minister articulates, who guarantees the country’s commitment to cohesion and at the same time assures that «there will be no standard citizens and areas of the country A and B series”. And then he sinks: «Faced with the challenges we face, all institutional levels must loyally help each other. In the time we live, in the situation in which we are called to operate I think there is no room for personalities, for small political quarrels on the skin of citizens
». Faced with the murmurs, the underground conflicts between ministers, the half-hidden claims, which in recent days have ranged from excise duties to appointments to the petrol decree, you rather think that “we must all work together, with loyalty, with respect for differences obviously, because this nation needs the responsibility of its ruling class».

Meloni, who “managed to be prime minister, but not mayor” – he ironizes that the work of the mayor «is a commitment that knows no breaks, has no boundaries and almost always cannot count on the tools and resources necessary to do this job well. A more demanding challenge for those who are mayors of a municipality with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants, because those tools and resources are often even less”. The prime minister, to the approximately 7,000 seated mayors, explains that she knows that it is they “today more than yesterday, the first row of political commitment, they do the most difficult job of those who are called to do those who choose the path of politics, to represent the citizens». And this is why the government “thanks them for the dedication, generosity and creativity with which they very often do their best to give answers to citizens in the difficult conditions in which municipalities find themselves today”. But he also invites everyone to take «an example from the administration of the mayors of municipalities with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants, those who do practically everything and who meet their fellow citizens face-to-face every day. Above all, turn to a united and single country».

The Prime Minister speaks of «a single Italy, with equal services for all and equal rights for all, a single Italy in which the State and its articulations put themselves together at the service of the citizens, instead of considering, as has sometimes happened, that the citizens were at the service of the institutions». «A single Italy – he resumes – in which no one can feel excluded, or the son of a lesser god, or abandoned by the institutions. A single Italy that works together to be more modern and inclusive”. “This nation can still be modern, an example for others to follow, a model that others copy”, Meloni still urges, saying that “we have taught a lot but Italy can still teach a lot and we must not forget it”.