Mes, the majority votes to suspend the ratification: we’ll talk about it again in the autumn. The opposition attacks: “They flee from responsibility”

By now it was a formality, a necessary vote but with a foregone conclusion. After weeks of protests and postponements, the Chamber approved the majority’s request for a four-month suspension of the examination of the bill, presented by Pd and IV, ratifying the European Stability Mechanism. There were 195 votes in favour, 117 against. During the discussion on the suspension, only the FI deputy spoke to testify to the centre-right’s embarrassment on the issue Andrea Orsiniillustrating the request to postpone: “The ESM as it stands would be a step backwards and not forward towards a truly united EU”, he argues.

“You decide not to decide, after leaving the oppositions alone in the committee. Meloni deludes himself that he can use the Mes as a bargaining chip in Europe, but that is not the case ”, he protests Clare Braga, leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber. “In Europe – he continues – it doesn’t work as they would like Melons And Salvini, there is great amateurism and blackmail damages the interests of the country. The majority is capable only of agitating and using the populists. Deceive your electorate and put on a show of government parties that continue to oppose.”

AND Piero DeLuca, dem group leader in the EU Policies Commission, adds: “On the reform of the Mes, the government and the majority are embarrassing, they flee from their responsibilities. The reform of the bailout fund has only positive effects for the financial stability of the Eurozone, for the protection of savers in the event of a banking crisis and for the credibility and solidity of our country. Unfortunately – he concludes – the right continues to prefer propaganda, with melina and false arguments, instead of thinking about defending the interests of the Italians”.

The 5 Star Movement is also attacking the majority. “You have a lion’s day here and then a hundred as a sheep in Europe – says the group leader of the M5S Richard Ricciardi – Meloni was talking here about democracy, freedom, talking about the war in Ukraine. This majority of patriots who had to decide the fate of the Italian country with strength and vigor, in the face of the first decision does not even appear in the Commission. You had to be the bold and brave ones. We are waiting four months to see the umpteenth turnaround you will make behind the Italians”.

On social media Hector Rosato, deputy of Italia viva, reiterates that “the ESM is needed, all the European countries who incidentally have already ratified it say it, our Ministry of Economy and Finance says it, which explains how among the positive effects there is the lowering of the cost of our public debt. The majority still decided to postpone the decision for four months, but in the end they will be forced to ratify it, you will see. Wasting time and public money is always a sin”. And the group leader of IV-Azione in the Chamber, Matthew Richettibranded the yes to the suspension as “another cloying farce”: “A purely ideological choice – he says – which only makes us waste time and credibility”. Luigi Marattinby Iv, presses: “You have slipped into this skit for party discipline but now the skit has exceeded all limits, it lasted far too long”.

Controversial too Benedict DellaVedova di Più Europa: “President Meloni does not know which fish to take. It’s not a question of delving into anything but just saying yes or no. The truth is that the majority have made the Mes a negative taboo, a state affair”.