Clashes and controversies over the 194. The political fire on the Meloni government does not abate, triggered by Fdi’s amendment to the Pnrr Decree in the Chamber – over which the League then split – which aims to involve pro-life associations in the consultancies. The intervention of the European Commission also comes to criticize Rome, as in the style of Brussels, through a spokeswoman for the Von der Leyen executive: «The Pnrr decree contains measures that concern the governance structure of the Pnrr, but there are other aspects that do not they are covered and have no connection with the Pnrr, such as the law on abortion.”
Enough for the opposition to attack. The leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber, Chiara Braga, writes: «Pnrr and abortion have nothing to do and now Europe is also criticizing us. It was an ideological and worrying stretch that takes us back in time and in conquests. There’s no point in having a female prime minister if she doesn’t defend the rights of all other women.”
The words of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini are not enough to extinguish the controversy: «The last word always belongs to women». And Riccardo Magi, secretary of Più Europa: «The use that the government is making of these resources is totally political. An offense to women.”
The leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte invites us not to reopen “completely useless ideological conflicts”. The Fdi group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti rejects the narrative of these hours: «With all due respect to those who have not read the amendment, or those who interpret it for their own, biased, use and consumption, the law introduced does not provide for any financing for Prolife associations. Volunteers will be able to work in the clinics, as already provided for by 194, free of charge. The rule is nothing other than the application of law 194.”
Internal rifts also occurred at Rai, after the episode of «Porta a Porta» on the topic with seven men guests in the studio and no women. So much so that Bruno Vespa receives the recall of president Marinella Soldi. Which, from what we understand, you wrote to Vespa recalling the role of the public service on such a sensitive issue “which directly involves women’s bodies”. Vespa responded promptly: «He who, as director of Tg1, entrusted the hosting of the 1.30pm program to three women cannot be insensitive to the presence of women. Beyond the specific circumstance which I believe I have amply clarified, I recalled that the reputation of Porta a Porta comes from hosting very representative politicians. Well there are only 5 women (Pd and M5S) out of 18 presidents, vice-presidents and presidents of the parliamentary groups of the top five parties. In any case we will do everything we can to guarantee women the role they deserve.”
Shortly before, the same program had released a note to explain that «the invitations for the broadcast were made in the days before the controversy arose. We had invited three women parliamentarians from the Democratic Party who were unavailable, and a newspaper editor, who was also unavailable.
In any case, abortion was only one of the eight topics covered in yesterday’s broadcast.”
