the manifesto of Meloni and the notice to the allies – Corriere.it

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– A government program that points to the next decade. Brushstrokes of intimism, off-wave in Roman dialect, the you to a left-wing deputy followed by an apology and an unsettling autobiographical note: I represent what the British they would call the

underdog
. The underdog, who has to upset all predictions to succeed. I intend to do it again. The imprint this. Giorgia Meloni, who feels the full weight of being the first Italian premier on her shoulders, speaks for 70 minutes, empties one glass of water off the other and draws her idea of ​​a country, trying to hold together the identity of the right with the commitment to represent the many who did not vote for it. The speech of the new tenant of Palazzo Chigi, which the center-left will judge of the extreme right, begins with emotion and respect for the solemnity of the Chamber of Deputies and ends with a somewhat commitment rtro: Sometimes we will fail, but we will not give up, we will not betray. In the evening, after the reply, Meloni will vote on the undersigned, as defined at the Quirinale and will collect the confidence of 235 deputies with 154 no and 5 abstentions.

The debut speech ends with eyes shining with emotion. Her right hand jumps to her feet, Meloni bends into a bow with her hands joined, with the incredulous expression of someone who has had the better of a political prejudice towards those who, like her, come from a cultural area often confined to the margins of the Republic. Salvini kisses her on her cheeks, Tajani doesn’t dare. At 12.10, after a couple of off the air whispered in the ear of the Northern League leader (I’m a mori ‘!), The Brothers of Italy shout Giorgia, Giorgiashe leaves the government desks and Umberto Bossi makes his way in a wheelchair to print a caress on her face.

EU, no sabotage

Meloni thanks the Italian people, the only sovereign, Mattarella for the precious advice and Draghi for the fast and peaceful handover: Nothing strange, this happens in the great democracies. The greeting to von der Leyen, Michel, Metsola says that Italy is within the EU institutions certainly not to sabotage integration, but without sparing criticism in Brussels: Italy making its voice heard loudly, without subordination. We do not conceive of the Union as an elite circle, with Serie A and Serie B members. It cites Saint Benedict, John Paul II and Pope Francis, Enrico Mattei and Steve Jobs. He swears in the name of Borsellino, Falcone and Dalla Chiesa that the government will face Mafia cancer with its head held high. He repeats the key words of his formation, nation, homeland and family, the primary nucleus of our society. Food sovereignty? It doesn’t mean we’re going to put pineapple out of business. The Pnrr? There will be no delays or waste, but some adjustments agreed with the EU. Citizenship income? a defeat. And the reforms? I will try to bring French semi-presidentialism home, with the opposition or without.

On foreign policy, he warns that Italy has no lessons to take and the altol addressed to France and to anyone who thinks of overseeing our country from the outside. Raise your tone, to say that in Europe to defend Italy’s interests: I will never be anyone’s cheerleader. Blinda the system of traditional alliances, EU, NATO, G7. Confirms support for Kiev and urges not to give in to Putin’s blackmail on energy. On the pandemic he winks at the no-pass, attacks (without naming them) Speranza and Arcuri, Draghi and Figliuolo (Italy has severely limited personal freedoms, we will not replicate that model) and makes Renzi happy with the commission of inquiry for track down those who have done millionaire deals with Covid.

The glass roof

The blow to effect the pantheon (bipartisan) of the great women who opened the way to Palazzo Chigi for her, a former girlfriend of Garbatella and built with the boards of their example the staircase that today allows me to climb and break the heavy roof crystal that sits on our heads. Maria Montessori and Grazia Deledda. And then Tina Anselmi, Nilde Iotti, Rita Levi Montalcini, Oriana Fallaci, Ilaria Alpi, Maria Grazia Cutuli … And also in the name of all the women who struggle to assert their talent that does not want to fail as a helmsman: The Italians have entrusted it is up to us to take the ship to port in this very difficult storm. He reassures women who fear upheavals in their rights (they have nothing to fear with us), promises to give us courage and do what needs to be done, even at the cost of not being re-elected.

The Italy of the new right is a paradise for businesses. Here are the slogans: Do not disturb those who want to do it and Fewer rules, but clearer for everyone. And the applause of the allies not only for the tight fight against tax evasion that is not a revenue hunt, but for the fiscal truce, the cutting of the wedge and the flat tax dear to the League. You want to extend the flat tax for VAT numbers, but the allies – Salvini in the first place – know that realizing all their promises is unrealistic, because the government will be alongside families and businesses by strengthening national measures on bills and fuel: An impressive financial commitment that will drain most of the available resources and force us to postpone other measures that we would have liked to have already started in the next budget law.

Racial laws shame

To curb the migratory wave, Mattei proposes a plan for Africa. And in order not to stumble on the naval blockade, he thinks of EU patrols, as in the Sophia mission: You do not enter Italy illegally, but legally with the flow decrees. The centenary of the March on Rome is approaching and Meloni, who also recalls the Risorgimento and not the Resistance, takes another step to leave behind any post-fascist nostalgia:
We will fight any form of racism and anti-Semitism. I have never felt sympathy for any regime, including fascism. The racial laws of 1938? A shame that will mark our people forever. And here the president condemns those militant anti-fascists who killed innocent boys in the 70s with a wrench, without to honor the young leftists who died.

Alternate speech tones with soft phrases. He premises that Italy is not a country for young people and returns to the controversial list of deviances to fight: alcoholism, crime, drugs. Cannabis free? Never. And since it was formed with the political commitment of young people, it winks at the students who will take to the streets: It is unlikely that I will not feel sympathy for anyone who also manifests against this government. Institutional in the speech, in the reply Meloni almost gets angry in responding to those who fear for the law on abortion: I do not accept the criticism of not being sincere, if I say that I do not want to do something I will not do it. And today it’s the Senate’s turn.