Towards the Meloni government, Letta: “The center-right damages Italy abroad”. Lollobrigida: “The Cav. Does not put us in difficulty”

The Quaestors in the League Chamber and the Brothers of Italy

Alessandro Manule Benvenuto will be the Quaestor for the League in the Chamber. A kind of compensation to Piedmont after the non-election of Riccardo Molinari to the presidency of the Chamber. The other commissioner is Paolo Trancassini, of the Brothers of Italy.

Letta locks up her loyal one as quaestor in the Senate

In the Senate, Letta wants Marco Meloni to vote as quaestor. His political coordinator. Armoring, as we had anticipated today on the sheet.

The center-right indicates Rampelli and Mulé to the vice-presidency of the Chamber

Fabio Rampelli of Fratelli d’Italia and Giorgio Mulè of Forza Italia are the names indicated by the center-right for the two seats of vice-president of the Chamber. In the Senate, on the other hand, the agreement signed between the Northern League and the forcers provides for the indication of Gian Marco Centinaio (for the Carroccio), who will therefore not be the Minister of Agriculture, and Maurizio Gasparri (for FI).

Rampelli: “The position of the Cav. On foreign policy is not that of Meloni”.

“It does not seem to me that Berlusconi’s positions in foreign policy are like those of Giorgia Meloni”. Fabio Rampelli, FDI deputy, says this on entering Montecitorio, responding to journalists.

Draghi’s greeting to journalists: “I leave with a good conscience of the work done”

Prime Minister Mario Draghi received the press this morning at Palazzo Chigi a few days after the change of government. No comment on politics: “If I speak, but even if I don’t speak, it is interpreted”

The League denies the clutches with FdI on the ministries

“With reference to news relaunched in the last few hours by some media, any statement by Matteo Salvini against the allies and on alleged stumbling in view of the government team is flatly denied” Thus the League in a note denies the rumors according to which the secretary of the Northern League he would be ready to reopen negotiations with Giorgia Meloni on ministries, in particular on the Interior Ministry and on the Department of Agricultural Policies.

“Salvini confirms the line of the last few weeks: common sense, no veto, zero jamming, maximum serenity with the other leaders of the coalition. Even today, as is normal, Salvini is in contact with his allies”, he underlines.

Vice-Presidency of the Chamber and Senate, Renzi: “Arrogant Pd and M5s. We will not participate in the vote”

Compared to today’s vote on the vice-presidents of the Chamber and Senate “Pd and M5s have made an agreement to cut us off”. Matteo Renzi says it in a video about him on social media. “With their arrogance they chose to keep us out and we will stay out of the classroom and bring the topic to the President of the Republic”, adds the leader of IV.

Meloni: “Italy and Poland together to defend common values ​​and European security”

“I thank the President of Poland, Andrzej Sebastian Duda, for the words of appreciation he expressed towards me. I am also convinced that Italy and Poland can and should strengthen their collaboration to jointly defend our common values ​​and European security” . Giorgia Meloni writes it in a post on Facebook.

Lollobrigida: “Berlusconi does not put us in difficulty”

Are Berlusconi’s allegations unfounded? “You don’t have to ask me what he does. You have to ask him. Berlusconi doesn’t put us in trouble”, so Meloni’s right-hand man, Francesco Lollobrigida, commented on Berlusconi’s words on ministries and relations with Putin. “Attempting to involve Tajani who has been president of the European Parliament, in Europe for a long time, a leading exponent of the EPP, who in every concrete act has always defended the Western alliance, I believe is unseemly beyond the role he will embody in the future “, he then added, finally reiterating the international positioning of FdI:” ‘We are with the Ukrainian people, in defense of freedom and democracy, then reiterated the group leader in the Chamber of the Brothers of Italy – role held in the last legislature and reconfirmed yesterday – entering Montecitorio.

Letta: “The majority harm Italy abroad, not the opposition”

“Question for Giorgia Meloni. Who damages Italy abroad? The opposition that makes the opposition? The President of the Chamber who de-legitimizes the sanctions against Russia? Gasparri against 194? Berlusconi who reconnects relations with the invader of ‘Ukraine? “, Wrote the secretary of the Democratic Party on Twitter, underlining the latest statements by the exponents of the center-right coalition.

“On the part of the new majority there is a dangerous shift of Italy towards a position of ever greater ambiguity towards Russia”, the leaders of the dem said yesterday evening.

The day

After the appointment of the group leaders in the various political forces, essential for starting the work of the Parliament and the consultations in view of the formation of the government, the 4 vice-presidents of the Chamber and Senate (as well as Quaestors and secretaries) are elected today. In opposition, M5s and Pd will divide the appointments, the result of an agreement that cut off the Third Pole which yesterday feared the idea of ​​not participating in the vote in protest. But it was Berlusconi’s leading role during the day who first announced Elisabetta Casellati as the next Minister of Justice – only to collect the FdI’s denial – and then said he had “re-established relations with Putin”. A statement later denied, but of which LaPresse has published an audio that confirms the words of the Cav – which also risks making the road that leads Antonio Tajani, number two of Forza Italia, to the Farnesina more difficult. “An unfortunate exit” commented Meloni privately, who sees in Berlusconi’s attitude the attempt to put her in difficulty after the tensions of recent days that seemed somehow overcome after the meeting in via della Scrofa.

And always on the Russian front, in the evening, the statements of the new Speaker of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana arrive: “Sanctions risk being a boomerang. They are more used to suffering than we are.”, said the Northern League, guest of Porta a Porta, repeating a concept that in reality he had already expressed on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine, when, however, he did not yet hold an institutional position of such importance. Furthermore, according to some background, the League would be ready to return to the negotiating table with Meloni, the idea of ​​indicating the name for the Interior Ministry – the great goal of the secretary Matteo Salvini – would not yet have completely faded away while even the ambitions with respect to the dicastery of ‘Agriculture have not been activated: the two leaders of Lega and FdI will meet today with the Carroccio “ready to speak out”, as the foreclosures advanced by the premier in pectore are defined as “not acceptable”.