Salvini defends himself on the absences from the ministry: “Some evenings the employees have to wait for him to come out. And then I have many works to follow”

“But is it true that you spend very little time in the ministry? I read that two days out of three you are out of the office”, they ask Radio Capital in the studio to Matthew Salvini by telephone connection. The reference is to the article by Republic which describes the last period of the Minister of Infrastructure who deserted the Porta Pia dicastery 53 times in the last three months, preferring rallies and inaugurations.

Absences from ministry

“It sounds like nonsense to me, ask the ministry employees who occasionally wait for me to leave my room in the evening”, he replies justifying the fact that a minister who deals with public works has to go around and lists the next commitments on the agenda. “Rightly that he goes to the ministry” joke the conductors. First year that will not go to Vinitaly. “I’ll pass if I can, because I think I could give myself three hours of relaxation on Sunday. It’s an incredible productive sector. Italy in recent years can really make up for 30 years of hiatus. If we really manage to ground all the building sites, create jobs we will have a faster and safer country”, Salvini repeats.

Anac

Yesterday his party lashed out against the president of the Anac, Joseph Busiawho asked the government to correct the new Procurement Code showing perplexity about the “deregulation” celebrated by the Minister of Transport Matthew Salvini. “He is inadequate, he resigns”, the request of the League which also pointed the finger at Busia’s sentences on the mayors in the interview with Republic (“The people closest to the manager, the mayor or the councilor could be called. And reducing transparency increases the risk of corruption, especially now that the resources are many”). Yesterday the clarification of the Anac president arrived: “I have never attacked them, indeed for me those of small municipalities are heroes”. And then the braking of the Carroccio.

Salvini today on Radio Capital returned to the question and to Brusia’s words about the directors. “It doesn’t exist to say that the mayors make their cousins ​​work, there is the risk of the underworld, it assumes that mayors and entrepreneurs are a gang of criminals. This is a code that simplifies, cuts time, has among its objectives to open the construction sites – reiterates the vice premier – Between one and five million the Municipalities will be able to decide whether to go to tender or to carry out the negotiated procedure. We received messages from Busia yesterday. During the day there was a course correction, from delinquent mayors to mayors heroes”.

Surrogacy

The decision of the European Parliament, which condemned the Italian government for stopping the registration of birth certificates of children of same-sex couples, “is a position taken by the left which has the majority in the European Parliament, as well as for houses, cars , green refrigerators. It takes a bit of common sense, children are neither refrigerators nor cars. Rented wombs, surrogacy, children bought abroad and then brought to Italy cannot be the future as far as I know it concerns. We are working to facilitate adoptions. Opening a hypothesis to a rented uterus is an immoral thing and far from reality “, comments Salvini.

Pnrr

And on the delays in the implementation of the Pnrr, the minister and Northern League leader adds: “We are x-raying work by work, month by month. It is clear that we have inherited evident delays from the two previous governments: we are evaluating what we have inherited which will never end within 2026 to replace it with what it will end up with. We will see how to use that money positively”. And on the resources of the Pnrr that some mayors, including that of Milan Joseph Sala, have applied to spend, he says: “I think the money can be spent both North and South. This North-South, East-West attack seems ungenerous to me.” On the delays related to the metro in the Lombard capital, he adds, “due to technical, not political problems”.

Bridge over the Strait

The decree on the bridge over the Strait “should have the definitive ok today”, says the minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini, ad Andrea Lucatello and Riccardo Quadrano in the studio at Radio Capital, adding that the goal is to lay the first stone “in the summer of 2024”. The decree was approved by the Council of Ministers last March 16 with the formula ‘subject to agreements’.

Migrants

Cut short on migrants. “I have no elements to say” whether or not Wagner is behind the wave of migration in progress, “we are working with the coast guard to limit deaths and departures. If Europe exists, now is the time to give a signal. I hope they understand that Lampedusa, Ventimiglia and Trieste are not only Italian but European borders. For now, Europe has not arrived – says Salvini, former Minister of the Interior in the first Conte government – The numbers are multiplying. Now we need a intervention of protection of borders but if the EU works on green refrigerators and green houses …”.

Ukraine

Do you think it is right to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from Olympic competitions? “As far as I’m concerned, they can also participate without flags, without symbols, I don’t think it’s individual athletes or individual dancers who have to pay for what Russia is doing. It’s not by keeping the Paralympic athlete out that you give Putin a signal. Then I will respect what the IOC decides”, concludes the Northern League secretary.