Giorgia Meloni takes the field for the European elections and will be the leader in all constituencies. The prime minister’s announcement comes from the stage of the Fratelli d’Italia event in Pescara. “I am a soldier, I have no hesitation in taking the front line” said the Fdi leader speaking to the audience and explaining that she will not campaign. “We are facing a decisive battle, we are at a crossroads that does not allow us to back down, everyone must do their part and I intend to do mine. I have decided to take the field to lead the lists of Brothers of Italy in all the constituencies, if I survive.” And then: “I’m not head of the Democratic Party, I know that the party will give me a hand.” The prime minister will therefore be involved as will the leaders of the Schlein (who announced her candidacy on Instagram a few days ago), while Conte and Salvini have chosen not to run.
“Proud to lead this political community”
From the stage in Pescara Meloni retraced the history of the party and the run-up to Palazzo Chigi. At the 2014 European elections, he said, “we narrowly missed the 4% quorum and it was a great disappointment, which did not take away our determination, 5 years of battles later we understood that we could become protagonists” and now “we are the first party of Italy”. “It took us six years to reach 6% – added the prime minister – and it took us three to bring that 6 to 26.5%. We concentrated on every centimeter with difficulty, without gifts, it was obstinacy. What we have earned it, it is not something we have acquired forever.”
“These splendid days, I want to say it clearly, have made me proud to lead this political community. I say it from the heart”, he added. “It was said that the Brothers of Italy did not have a ruling class and I think that instead demonstrations like this demonstrate exactly the opposite and demonstrate the quality of that ruling class to all those who delight in pontificating, in writing that Meloni is alone , that Meloni would not have capable people around her: here is a splendid slide of answers”.
“This Italy that changes today can also change Europe” said the prime minister speaking at the party’s programmatic conference. “Power – said Meloni – will never be our objective, government seats are a means for us. And this is a problem for many, who try to shut our mouths. We have brought forward our ideas when a stage we didn’t have that, but we just had our voice and we’re still the same people.”
Meloni: “The superbonus is the largest reverse asset ever made in Italy”
The prime minister touched on many topics. But it is when he talks about building bonuses that the tone of voice becomes more stentorian. The superbonus “is the largest reverse asset ever made in Italy” and the “largest gift given by the State to scammers”, the Prime Minister stated from the stage, “a redistribution from the weak to the rich. And then we asks why the left is so strong in the chic neighborhoods, full of rich people.” Meloni recalled that the super bonus has so far cost over 200 billion euros, “65 billion more than what the entire national health system costs us every year”.
“The Communist Party still exists”
From the stage in Pescara, the prime minister defended the government’s actions on immigration, foreign policy and the economy, launching various blows at the opposition. At an international level, “many had believed in the mystifications of the left, but the story was so distant from reality that it didn’t take long to dismantle it. Today we are known as serious, loyal people who respect their commitments but also know how to say no and whoever smeared us is recognized for what he is: a liar who had to lie to hide weakness.”
And then: “Ideas are scary. I saw that the Communist Party still exists, just to understand where the nostalgics of totalitarianism are, which presented a complaint on the authorizations for this demonstration. They always try to shut our mouths, so they can continue to tell lies. Come to terms with it: it is not possible to stop us from talking about politics.”
The attack on Report: “Tele-Meloni represented Albania as a narco-state”
Speaking of immigration, Meloni also attacked the Rai3 Report program for the report on reception centers contested by the Albanian Prime Minister Rama. “When we made an open-air agreement with Edi Rama, the left proposed to expel him from the European socialists instead of thanking him for having acted in the name of European solidarity, they lynched him. Even Tele-meloni, you know, no Tele-Meloni ? He created a report on Albania in which he portrayed himself as a narco-state. Help me send our solidarity to Rama and all the Albanian people.”
Migrants, Meloni to Schlein: “Tell me if you are on the side of legality or mass immigration”
Regarding migrants “we hide behind the do-goodism of welcoming, while the United Nations says that human trafficking in the world has become much more profitable than arms trafficking and is equaling drug trafficking. And Europe, which with the kingdom of Denmark was the first in the world to abolish the slave trade in 1792, it cannot remain silent when after 250 years that trade reappears on European soil”.
“We will also bring this topic to the G7 – explained Meloni – where our declared objective is to build a global alliance against human traffickers, following the same teachings of Falcone and Borsellino on the subject of fighting the mafia: we must follow the money, attack traffickers to the heart, let them say, in Italy and in Europe, where the others want to be: let them tell us if they want to be with us on the side of legality and on the side of those who fight the new slavers, or if they want to be on the side. of the mass illegal immigration that makes the fortune of those criminal networks. I ask in particular the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein: a clear word is needed on this.”
“Italy can change Europe and indeed, I say more, it has already begun to do so” Meloni said again from the stage. “The term impossible – he added – is used by the fearful for fear of trying, those who have courage try and nothing is impossible for those who have their feet planted on the ground and their gaze upwards”.
