Live from the Fratelli d’Italia programmatic conference in Pescara, the Italian prime minister announces her candidacy in the European elections next June
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Giorgia Meloni is officially a candidate in the European elections next June, she announced it from the stage of the programmatic conference of her party, Fratelli d’Italia, in Pescara. The Prime Minister said that she will lead all the lists in the electoral constituencies.
The president of the Senate was present in Pescara Ignazio La Russa and the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani, which brought “the greetings of all of Forza Italia”. In the absence of the other deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport explained that it was the last Sunday available to be able to spend with his children.
Meloni: “Italy is central to changing what doesn’t work in Europe”
From the stage in Pescara Meloni recalled the previous European electoral challenges, of 2014 when the party did not reach the quorum of 4 percent and those of 2019 when it reached 6.5 percent. “In six years we have increased by two percent, in the last three we reached 26.5 percent“, said Meloni. “I don’t remember this story for let’s say as a rhetorical exercise of self-satisfaction and self-celebration, I say it to remind myself and all of us that what we have earned is not something we have acquired forever, we must continue to deserve it.” added Meloni.
Meloni then took credit for having put Italy back at the center of Europe and international politics, managing to bring the Pope to the next G7 in Puglia for the first time, and then attacked the opposition, criticizing the symbols for the electoral elections of the Democratic Party and also of the 5 Star Movement, the latter inserted the word peace in the logo.
The prime minister claimed responsibility for the agreements with Tunisia and Egypt for the management of migrants and attacked the left who threatened to “kick Edi Rama out of the socialists because he dared to make himself available to the center-right government to help Italy instead of thanking him” , said Meloni, referring to the agreement between Rome and Tirana on migrant centers in the territories of Albania.
There has been no shortage of criticism of the European Green Deal and the “bureaucrats locked in a glass palace”. Meloni claimed the obligation to advance the energy class to be achieved in a few years and on electric cars he reiterated that Europe must stop, “it must leave it up to research, the market, companies to develop the cleanest technologies and the Member States, also based on their social model, to decide how to achieve those objectives”, said Meloni and I added: “Because while we save the environment, we also want to save the thousands of businesses and the thousands of jobs”.
Meloni then recalled that the government and its members fought against the nutriscore proposals, the label on the nutritional values of foods, the labels on wine and also against synthetic meat and the Italian sounding, non-Italian products that pass themselves off as Italian. All to defend Made in Italyfor which “there is a great desire in the world”.
On the Pnrr, Meloni recalled that the opposition had opposed the government’s proposal to modify it, but the prime minister recalled that Italy is the most advanced nation in Europe in terms of installments paid and projects presented. “Other governments are asking Italy for help in understanding how to spend European money better,” said Meloni.
“We want to do in Europe exactly what we did in Italy on 25 September of creating a majority that brings together the centre-right forces and finally send the left into opposition in Europe too“, said Meloni, ruling out any coalition with the left and also reiterated that the nomination of the president of the European Commission will only be decided when the results of the elections are available.
For Meloni the European Union can only be a confederation of sovereign Nations united on major issues by a policy of a common destiny and free at home to address issues of strict national importance.
On Defence, the Italian Prime Minister said that we need to strengthen decision-making autonomy, build a European pillar to be placed alongside the American pillar of NATO with equal weight and dignity “to better affirm European interests in particular on the Southern front”, she said Meoloni and added: “It is essential to accelerate towards a common industrial policy in the defense sectorincrease collaboration between our national champions in a logic of European sovereignty, because freedom and security have a cost and to have peace on our borders we must be able to exercise the deterrence that is necessary”.
“For years they told us that there was no choice, that we could not change Europe, that we had to change for Europe, in a year and a half at the helm of the nation Giorgia Meloni has shown that changing Europe is possible and that Italy can play a leading role in this change“, is the message transmitted shortly before the Italian Prime Minister took the stage. “We want a Europe in which we can recognize ourselves, and for this reason we want to rewrite its history together. Today it is finally possible, with Giorgia Italy changes Europe”, the advert concludes.
Brothers of Italy towards 27 percent in the elections
Fratelli d’Italia had six deputies in the IX legislature of the European Parliament, belonging to the European Conservatives and Reformists Ecr group. According to the recent Ipsos poll for Euronews, Meloni’s party could obtain up to 24 seats in the next elections in June, with 27 percent of the vote.
