we targeted, a certain established power wants to bring us down. But let’s go on – Corriere.it

Palazzo Chigi as a fort under siege. Giorgia Meloni does not cry conspiracy, but she suspects a plan to bring down his government. The Prime Minister had taken into account that a certain established power would take action to stop the reforms that we have put in the pipeline. And now that the attack has arrived, she does not intend to take a step back, let alone stop. I will continue my work with serenity, I am satisfied with the excellent results at home and in foreign policy and I remain concentrated on the daily work and on the consensus of the Italians, warns the leader of the right in these hours. Which leaves nothing to leak about new storm that darkened the skies of the majority, the news is that the third son of Ignazio La Russa is being investigated for sexual assault. No comment, the official reaction.

The rumors about Daniela Santanch being investigated for bankruptcy and false accounting on the day of the minister’s report to the Senate and then the request for the forced indictment of the most faithful undersecretary Andrea Delmastro, convinced the premier that politics, the judiciary and a part of the press have decided to declare war on her: I have acknowledged that the confrontation is being escalated, but it is not I who has opened hostilities and will continue not to respond to provocations. If you let the vessel of wrath overflow, why do you think those robes are what Silvio Berlusconi called redheads have crossed the line. And so he accused a section of the judiciary of acting as an opposition and of having wanted to open it prematurely election campaign for the Europeans. Yet Meloni certainly does not consider himself responsible for an institutional clash that leads back to Berlusconi’s first season.

The thesis of Palazzo Chigi that a certain established power has taken to firing on the executive, which would have triggered the reaction of the premier. Who hopes to question the government I will be disappointed – Giorgia Meloni vented to her staff – I can’t prevent that try to make us fall, but the attempt will not succeed. We will go ahead with the reforms because I consider them necessary for the good of the country, starting with that of justice.

With the opposition always keeping its tone high, calling for the resignation of Daniela Santanch and preparing to vote on the individual no-confidence motion against the Minister of Tourism, the coalition closed in on a tortoise. And even if Giorgia Meloni had thought of leaving the senator of the Brothers of Italy to her fate and asking Russia (who wanted her in the government) to suggest a step back, for now the premier has armored it. We have to unite, the line, welcomed by the League, by Forza Italia and also by the Melonians, not without embarrassment and some grumbling: there are many in the majority who disapprove some behaviors of the entrepreneur Santanch, yet Palazzo Chigi takes time. The motion of no confidence does not have the numbers to pass and the thesis of the Melonians is this: Why should we make her resign if Parliament has renewed its confidence? Certainly not the mother of all issues. If and when she were to be indicted, as many think, Meloni and her will look at the papers and evaluate the need for a step back. But at the moment any decision deemed premature.

Daniela Santanch continues to appear convinced that she is the leader of her party never thought of downloading it and that, contrary to the conviction of many colleagues, it is not true that Meloni found the defensive line of the information to the Senate wrong and counterproductive. I know for sure that Giorgia appreciated my defensethe Head of Tourism continues to show optimism, confirming all the commitments on the agenda.

Now the minister-entrepreneurwho also feels protected by the position of Justice Minister Nordio, anguished by the story of Leonardo Apache La Russa, who in addition to being the son of his historic friend who now sits on the highest bench in Palazzo Madama, also his godson. If the children touch us, it means that a war, the first reaction that Santanch shared with his collaborators, suspecting another chapter of what the Brothers of Italy call inside clockwork justice.

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