The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Contestarted from Foggia for his new electoral tour in Puglia which, tomorrow, will take him back to Bari.
Speaking with journalists on the sidelines of a rally, Conte returned to the controversy raised by a tweet from the Northern League member Claudio Borghi which called for the resignation of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
“It’s a unworthy controversyrequesting President Mattarella’s resignation is something that cannot be commented on, so serious and so incoherent”, stated Conte, adding that “an electoral campaign, however loud one may raise the tone and one may even act instrumentally, does not justify such a request. President Mattarella said some obvious things. We are in Europe and simply we need to go to Europe with our heads held high and not like this government which accepted the Franco-German proposal which even involves cuts of 13 billion a year.”
For the president of the 5 Star Movement «we must stay in Europe and obviously national interests must also be defended. And we have demonstrated that by defending national interests we have defended a turning point in Europe with next generation for the benefit of all.”
Coming to the themes of the electoral campaign, Conte stated that «the M5s is the only Italian political force that voted no to a further shipment of weapons and also no to the 13 billion healthcare cuts imposed by the stability pact. We – she added – always act coherently. We have been fighting for years to install a legal minimum and we have been fighting for years so that workers can receive adequate pay. And now we will fight for the reduction of working hours to 32 hours».
