«No to the Europe of lobbies, let’s defend families»

An appeal, the last one, punctuated by the fear that a collapse in turnout could end up penalizing Fratelli d’Italia. For Giorgia Meloni, the eve of the vote for the European elections, marked for the executive by the “Signorelli case”, ultimately turned into an opportunity to call Italian citizens to the polls: «Saturday and Sunday, you decide your future and it is you who must decide how strong Italy can and should be in Europe.” «Strong to defend its national interests, strong to bring pragmatism and seriousness to the choices of the European Union which is losing its role in the world. I believe that we must vote looking at the national interest and I also know which party is the one that has always defended the Italian national interest above all else.”

THE MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER

This is the message entrusted by the prime minister to a video published on her social channels which opens with the invitation “write Giorgia” and ends with images of the closing rally of Fratelli d’Italia in Piazza del Popolo. «On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June – says the Prime Minister and leader of the European conservatives – the elections will be held for the renewal of the European Parliament and it will be decided what the future of the European Union should be, which to us sometimes seems like something distant but instead these are issues that closely concern our lives every day.”
«In just a year and a half of government in Italy we have managed to stop a decline that seemed unstoppable, to disprove the prophets of doom, to restore trust and credibility to our nation. Of course, obviously there is still a lot to do”, he added, reeling off the data on employment and growth that he has been reiterating at every speech for days, and claiming to have “dedicated every single euro, every available resource to wages, to the support of the power of purchase of families, to healthcare”. “We want to bring the same change to Europe that we started here in Italy” is the conclusion of the prime minister. «We want a Europe where citizens decide and not where bureaucrats or large lobbies decide. May it therefore serve the interests of European citizens and peoples. Everything he hasn’t been able to do so far” including support for “families” and “birth rates, something he has never been able to do or wanted to do so far”. “I can do this – reiterated Meloni not surprisingly during the short speech sent to Tg5 at 8pm – but I need to be strong”.

THE PROGRAM

Meanwhile, the last efforts of the electoral campaign have been shelved also thanks to the evening spent by the Prime Minister in Verona for “The Great Italian Opera, a World Heritage Site” (welcomed with applause in the Arena, “They always do better than the whistles”, she commented) Meloni is already looking forward to a new challenge. Not the G7 for which everything is now almost ready in Borgo Egnazia, but the safeguarding of balance within its executive. In fact, as was predictable, the long race towards the polls has caused more than a few conflicts between the allies and within the centre-right majority.
Fractures that the Prime Minister will aim to heal as soon as possible, fearing that the results of Forza Italia and Lega (and also a possible “step backwards” by FdI compared to the 26% obtained in the Politicians) could further worsen the climate. Especially if associated with the reverberations of the European shocks that will be caused by the formation of the majority in the European Parliament in Strasbrug and the need to nominate a European Commissioner. A role which, net of the hypothesis of intelligence number one Elisabetta Belloni, sees minister Raffaele Fitto as the favourite. That is to say that in a few months from now a window could open for a mini-reshuffle of the government, which would also include the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché.
Impossible to say how it will end. The only certainty is that the results that will mature at the polls between today and tomorrow seem more uncertain than ever. Also for FdI.

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