The appeal to go to the polls, because the one on 9 and 10 June is a “damned important vote”, a “referendum” between two visions of Europe. And a frontal attack on the left and above all on the leader of the Democratic Party, to whom she addresses directly to ask “Elly” to say whether she thinks, like the socialist spitzenkandidat Nicolas Schmit, that she is not “democratic”. At three in the afternoon, Giorgia Meloni returns to the role of party leader and the audience in Piazza del Popolo in Rome gives an ovation when on the giant screen – in a short video celebrating the leader – the now famous “I’m that bitch from the Meloni”, said to the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca, a few days ago in Caivano. Between high tones, winks and dances, the prime minister asks her people not to leave her alone in this passage which could “make history”, also because a majority of The centre-right in Europe, given the “nervousness” on the left, could be a “less distant” objective than one might imagine. Replicating the model of the Italian centre-right, this is the intent, even if the polls continue to indicate it as a difficult scenario. But at the European Parliament “we have already seen it”, not only with the Ppe, Ecr (the European conservatives always led by Meloni) and part of Id but also with “part of Renew”, he observes in the middle of a Piazza del Popolo full but not very full Nicola Procaccini. Of course, the presidency of the commission is another matter, but there the vote “is not political”, it is an agreement between governments and, the Fdi MEP bets, it will not be a question of whether or not to vote for “Ursula von der Leyen”.
Giorgia Meloni
Meloni does not name her from the stage, just as he does not name Marine Le Pen, the other “lady” of the Euro-rights. She doesn’t really focus on alliances except to reiterate that “never with the left” that warms the thousands of militants and sympathizers who arrived in Rome, who resist for the entire hour of her speech under the first summer sun. The ministers, from Carlo Nordio to Eugenia Roccella, wander around the square in shirtsleeves and hats. They are all there, like the parliamentarians and the candidates. “I am convinced that we will break through” says Andrea Delmastro with enthusiasm, even if when it comes to percentages no one is unbalanced. To consider victory, “one more vote” will be enough, “0.01% more” of policies is the mantra. With the bar therefore set at 26% eighteen months ago and the fear that the low turnout could be penalising. “It’s up to you, go and vote”, repeats the Prime Minister, inviting us to choose between an “ideological, centralist, nihilistic, increasingly technocratic” Europe and “a courageous, proud Europe that does not forget its roots” . No more “super state”, is Meloni’s promise, but a Europe that “does less and better”, which sets objectives, from energy to the green transition, but leaves “the choice” of technologies to the states. He warns against the attacks that will continue to come from those “forces of the preservation of the status quo who for decades have bivouacked on the backs of the Italians”, in front of whom we must not “be afraid”.
European elections, Fdl, rally with Prime Minister Meloni
So go ahead with the reforms, starting with the premiership, which “does not go down well with the Pd and M5s” who are giving him “an opposition” never seen before on other issues because they want “the Palace to continue to decide”. He has it for the Dems, “for them there is democracy only if they are in charge”, and for the movement led by Giuseppe Conte, who has shown “consistency in betraying all the promises”. She relaunches her defense in the face of the “insults” of the governor of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca (the only other opponent to be nominated), because “I am not a woman who submits” and “we are used to not giving up on bullies and rude people.” And then he moves on to Schmit, who in a debate with the other candidates for the presidency of the commission spoke of the conservatives as a “non-democratic” force: “Elly, it’s a simple question, do you agree yes or no” the attack towards the secretary of the Democratic Party . Which goes further, because “you provide alibis to extremists to poison our democracies with political hatred, and present yourselves as responsible forces…”. “Promise me that we will not become like our bitter adversaries”, he asks his people. Before a change of clothes and tone, she is ready to return to her institutional role and go up to Colle for the traditional reception for Republic Day.
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