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«We want Italy to be central to changing what doesn’t work in Europe, this Italy that changes today can change Europe». These are the words of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, from the stage of the FdI programmatic conference in Pescara. The wait of the last days is over. With the decision, finally communicated to the audience of militants, «to take to the field to lead the lists of the Brothers of Italy in all the electoral constituencies», not without a joke (“if I survive”). For the Prime Minister «Italy has once again become a protagonist in the West, in Europe, in the Mediterranean after the years of the servility of a certain left, after the years of the circle-busting of the Five Star Movement. The Italy that respects its international commitments is back, which is looked at with respect because it has the courage to make right decisions even when those decisions may be unpopular. Like that of supporting the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their freedom against Vladimir Putin’s neo-Soviet imperialism.”
«The time has come to up the ante»
«We will also defend our excellence, our borders, our identity in the EU. This time too they will tell us that we are crazy and that it is an impossible challenge to win.” The challenge is launched. «They have given us up for defeat many times, they told us that we were destined to disappear. Let him tell you. While they bask in their reassuring hope, we will continue to work as we always have and who knows if this time too we will be able to prove the predictions wrong. The time has come to raise the stakes, let’s change Europe too.”
«I am proud to be a person of the people»
«I ask Italians to write my name, but my first name» at the European elections. «I am proud that the majority of citizens who address me call me Giorgia. I have been mocked for years for my popular roots, they called me fisherman, villager, because they are cultured. But I am proud to be a person of the people.” The prime minister and leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni said this. «If you want to tell me that you still believe in me, write Giorgia on the card, because I am and will always be one of you. Power will not change me, the Palace will not isolate me. I need to know once again that it’s worth it.”
«In 2014 we lacked a quorum, now the first party»
«There are just a few weeks left before the new challenge that awaits us» of the European Championships. In 2014 «we narrowly missed the 4% quorum and it was a great disappointment, which did not take away our determination, five years of battles later» we understood «that we could become protagonists», now «we are the leading party in Italy». But, warns Meloni, the result we have obtained as FdI “is not an established fact, we must continue to deserve it” and “it makes our wrists tremble”. «We will not betray the Italians who did not believe» in the «space lies» that «they propagated inside and outside national borders». The objective before the party is now «creating a majority that brings together the centre-right forces and sending the left into opposition even in the EU is a difficult but possible undertaking and we must try». It is possible “to bring the Italian model to Europe too, it would be a revolution in which the conservative party is strategic and fundamental”.
«We obscurantists for the same things that Draghi is now saying»
«Those who applaud Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi today branded our criticisms as obscurantism or denialism: the truth is that we were always right, it wasn’t denialism or obscurantism, it was banal realism», harangues Meloni from the stage in Pescara. «Even the most severe observers are forced to take note of the solidity of our economy, of the seriousness with which the government is managing the public accounts. Since the establishment of our government until today, the spread that many observers liked so much, has fallen by over 100 basis points to many commentators from 236 points to 131 yesterday, because it had to shoot up to 600 points in dreams, let’s say so interested and a little anti-nationals of our detractors”.
