Meloni in the Chamber, because the League was not on the benches of the government – Corriere.it

ROME The relay. Joseph Vallettaraaround 10.30, receives a phone call while sitting on the benches of the government. Roberto Calderoli calls himthe Minister of Autonomies, who asks him what time he should come: a quarter past eleven, maximum twenty past eleven. At that hour Calderoli arrives and Valditara leaves. The fact that when Giorgia Meloni begins her communications in view of the European Council, around 10 in the morning, there is not a single minister on the government benches. Not unprecedented and probably not even intended.

But Carlo Calenda notes it via Twitter: The League absent from the government benches. Yesterday’s speech in the Senate by the group leader against Meloni’s line on Ukraine. This executive is already in crisis. For the wrong reasons.

The reference to Massimiliano Romeo who yesterday at Palazzo Madama criticized the single thought regarding support for Ukraine: What freedom is that which criminalizes any idea that deviates, even by a millimetre, from the dominant thought? Let me say it’s more like a sweet tyranny.

The fact is that Northern League supporters realize that today’s absence can be misinterpreted. And they run for cover. Matteo Salvini posts photos of the working table at the Ministry of Transport for road safety, accompanied by the long list of subjects present. As if to say: I could not miss that meeting. And Valditara makes an appearance in the Chamber.

Then, given that he too has commitments later on, the relay is organized so as to avoid that there is not even one Northern League member on the benches of the government. The wait, at that point, for the intervention of the League. Candiani takes the floor and the tension dissolves: We have aligned an important front in the war in favor of Ukraine and against Russia: we need this front not to be affected by any difficulties. In the sense that it is evident that within the EU there are countries which have more difficulties in supplying energy and which are more dependent than others on certain energy sources. No friction.