BARI – «The 5 Star Movement will never lend itself to instrumental initiatives of the centre-right, which is right not to raise its head and not to give lessons to anyone because I could make the list of the mafia political exchange that concerns the centre-right administrations throughout Italy ». The president of the 5 Star Movement said it, Giuseppe Conteon the sidelines of a meeting with the candidates for the administrative elections of Bari. Conte responded thus to those who asked him if next Tuesday the M5S will vote against the no-confidence vote in the governor of Puglia, Michele Emilianopresented by centre-right councillors.
«We will also evaluate the administrative action carried out so far at a regional level – he added – and we are co-responsible, proudly responsible, for many positive projects that we started before leaving our roles in the Region». “Then – said Conte – there is the passage of the legality pact and the project of the inspection unit, there is a positive feedback so there are no elements to offer the right to this instrumental action to the opposition political forces”.
“This is a government that is not only depressing the country’s economy, but is bringing the South to its knees.” The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, said this on the sidelines of a meeting with the candidates for the local elections in Bari. “We – he added – have done a lot to restart the country, but we have a recovery and resilience plan late in the implementation of the projects, there is a problem with the scams already reported at the European Prosecutor’s level”.
Conte specified that «we are concerned that, in the future, the South will struggle more and more with differentiated autonomy, it will find itself without the decontribution of the South, fundamental measures to make business activity more competitive». Conte also underlined that «the government has canceled 4.4 billion of the Southern Infrastructure Equalization Fund. It has now renamed and re-presented it, but we are talking about just 900 million. It is a government that is systematically trying to recover resources by taking them away from the South, but they are fundamental resources for closing the gap and being competitive.”
«I was in Portella della Ginestra, the CGIL was there collecting signatures. It was the first opportunity that arose and I signed up for the referendum.” The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, said this on the sidelines of a meeting with the candidates for the Bari local elections, referring to the signature given last May 1st to the referendum promoted by the union against the Jobs Act.
«This is not something new for the 5 Star Movement – he added – when we were in government we adopted the dignity decree against precariousness, we began to dismantle the Jobs act, which created increasingly more precarious jobs and favored multiplication of fixed-term contracts”. «Today – said Conte – we are on a ridge where on-call, fixed-term, seasonal work has created a horizon of precarious life. If the government wants to combat the birth rate, rather than putting taxes on diapers, it should try to encourage the stability of employment relationships.”
«For parties, working not to lose means using all public structures to fuel consensus. Using an ASL or a municipal office means that, when a competition comes up, we think about making a friend easier than the best or most competent person. We have 332 territorial groups and we will therefore also carry out a territorial policy, but we must not get to the point of thinking that public structures become tools to convey consensus, because that is degeneration”. The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, said this during a meeting with the candidates for the Bari local elections.
«Here – said Conte, referring to the administrative offices of Bari – there’s a nice healthy and genuine challenge. Michele (Laforgia, ed.) he is a loyal person and does not have to be loyal to any political force. We believe we can win, we will do everything we can to help him and we will give him the mandate to do the best for the city without looking anyone in the face.” «We are here to vindicate the strength and governing capacity of a progressive coalition – he said again – Michele Laforgia he immediately revealed himself to be competent, serious, rigorous and endowed with the strength of character necessary to ensure that the next government of the city has the ability to renew itself without squandering past experience, but enhancing what was good”.
«Someone argued, stubbornly against the facts, that we canceled the primaries because we didn’t want them from the start. That choice cost us, because we would have won those primaries.” Michele Laforgia, candidate for mayor in Bari of part of the center-left (Convention and M5S), said this during a meeting with the president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte. Laforgia added that “coherence, respect for the rules, the principle of legality” which “are even more important than victory”.
“We are not interested in winning at any cost – he added – but in winning to affirm these principles, the principle that all the people who are here are at the service of politics, and not the other way around”. Laforgia also specified that there are three common elements with the 5 Star Movement: «Coherence, the search for unity and the principle of legality».
«The people of the 5 Star Movement ask for maximum guarantees that the administrative action of the Puglia Region is in the name of full legality and that it equips itself with tools and antidotes to prevent malfeasance». The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, said this on the sidelines of a meeting with the candidates for the Bari local elections. Conte responded thus to those who asked him what the Movement is asking for in view of the motion of no confidence in the governor of Puglia Emiliano , which will be voted on next Tuesday.
«Hence – he added – the pact for legality, which we delivered to Emiliano, and the bill to establish an inspection unit that can operate at any level, where there are consultancies, appointments or centers of administrative action that can make themselves permeable to people of bad repute”. «We must prevent this – Conte specified -. On the part of Emiliano and his offices there is availability, full sharing both from a political and technical point of view, therefore there are the conditions for all this to be adopted to strengthen transparency and legality in Apulian administrative action »
