The Fratelli d’Italia conference in Pescara began this afternoon. A large tensile structure on the beach, with transparent walls and a sea view.
The front line of the party is present, including the head of the political secretariat Arianna Meloni, parliamentarians, undersecretaries and some ministers, from Guido Crosetto to Francesco Lollobrigida, who will take part in the first thematic panels of the day. Today we will address foreign policy, European identity, work, the defense of external borders and agriculture. Also present was the Minister of Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani, who opened the proceedings on stage with the Abruzzo representatives of Fdi. All the leaders of the centre-right and the Prime Minister (and of Fdi and Ecr) Giorgia Meloni are expected on Sunday.
Read the detailed program of the three days and the changes to traffic conditions here
“There are only a few hours left until the filing of the lists” for the European elections, then the electoral campaign will officially start. If Giorgia Meloni will run? We are all curious, we are all waiting with interest what she will decide, but we don’t know yet.” FdI’s organizational manager, Giovanni, said this Donzellion the sidelines of the party’s programmatic conference starting today in Pescara.
“You will decide when to say it and what you want to do – continues the deputy speaking from Piazza I Maggio, where the three rooms that will host the event have been set up on the beach -. Are the posters already around? I’m with Giorgia because obviously whether she runs or not, Fratelli d’Italia is focusing on Giorgia Meloni for Europe. Even if he does not run in the European elections, he remains the Prime Minister and our party leader and therefore it is obvious that we are convinced that Italy can count more in Europe thanks to Giorgia Meloni, regardless of the candidacy. If, however, she were to run, obviously the same logic that we rely on Giorgia Meloni applies. But now it’s not just us at Fratelli d’Italia, all Italians believe in Giorgia Meloni and have faith in her.”
The Pescara event, Donzelli underlines, “is the moment in which we also illustrate and discuss the program with each other because too often politics is reduced to slogans and little more instead we delve deeper and enter specifically into the issues that can truly concern not only the next elections but the interests of Italians in relation to Europe: from the family to the protection of the productive world with respect to certain green tendencies, from the protection of the birth rate to the theme of the sea which also means the defense of the Mediterranean and the external borders of Europe. We finally want to change Europe, and Italy can change Europe.”
The regional secretary of FdI Sigismondi
“Abruzzo region where Giorgia Meloni, the president of the Council of Ministers, was elected and where we reconfirmed the president Marco Marsilio. We have demonstrated that Fratelli d’Italia manages to bring concrete results on a daily basis. We talk about infrastructure and tourism promotion. Italians are once again proud of their country. At an international level we have regained authority. We believe in a less bureaucratic Europe. Ideological drift of the left and the controversies of recent days bear witness to this”, said the regional secretary of FdI Etelwardo Sigismondi at the opening of the third programmatic conference of the party today in Pescara.
The Minister of Agricultural Policies Lollobrigida
“Giorgia Meloni is the leader of our party as well as the first woman who managed to allow our nation to modernize, demonstrating its value. Having a woman, I hope, like her at the helm of our list throughout Italy will also allow us to confirm the great trust that Italians have in her.” Thus the Minister of Agricultural Policies and Food Sovereignty Francesco Lollobrigida on the sidelines of the Fdi programmatic conference in Pescara. The bar “is the maximum possible” is limited to saying without going overboard on a percentage number. As for future alliances in Brussels, to those who ask him if Fdi is ready to be in a majority with Identity and Democracy, “politics – he replies – is something different than a still in which to insert the magic formula. We need to think with the indication that the citizens will give with their vote, we don’t even know which parties will be present in the European Parliament because we still have to vote. What we are doing with Meloni is giving a true meaning to Italy’s presence in Europe, Italy founding country. Italy must have a role corresponding to its history and culture and I must say that in recent months the difference has been seen, Italy has resumed an important role in international forums that it had lost in the past”.
The Minister of Defense Crosetto
“The European elections? They are not an obstacle course, they have a political meaning, so it is not that one has a result” in mind, “it aims to affirm ideas, principles, in fact today’s debate is not a debate whose aim is to increase the votes, but to say why we want to go to Europe, what we want to change in Europe, what we should do”. The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, said this on the sidelines of the Fdi programmatic conference in Pescara to those who asked him if there is a bar the party is aiming for for the vote on 8 and 9 June. As for future alliances, perhaps with the right-wing Identity and Democracy parties, “President Meloni said clearly that once the elections have been held we will see how it can be done, what majority can be formed and who will sign up to the conservatives’ program.”
