During the meeting with group leaders, national coordinator and Forza Italia Giovani at Villa Gernetto, Silvio Berlusconi took stock of the current situation in the country, setting out the points on which the Azzurri will have to work in the coming weeks. Particular attention by the Knight was paid to the pandemic situation in the country: “The new variants are very dangerous, they could cause many victims and still put the health system in difficulty. The only tools we have to avoid it are the vaccine and strict compliance with the rules of prudence“. The leader of FI added:”It is absolutely not acceptable that the imprudence of some, with the irrational refusal of the vaccine, endangers the whole community“.
Silvio Berlusconi was keen to underline that “to endanger the health of others is not a right to freedom. It is not a right of freedom to paralyze our cities by preventing merchants from working and people from moving“. In all, however, it should be specified that”dissent is legitimate, it is fundamental in a democracy, it must certainly be protected“, However “it must manifest itself in such a way as not to endanger the safety of others“.
But the president of Forza Italia has also ranged on other issues, returning to talk about the upcoming elections for the President of the Republic which, inevitably, never more than this time will have a government weight, given that Mario Draghi is among the main candidates to climb the Colle. “We will be the first to cooperate loyally in the activity of this government, which must remain in office for as long as necessary, until 2023, until we have emerged from the emergency. Then it will be possible to return to the natural alternation between two competing sides“, said Silvio Berlusconi. The Knight, therefore, paused to reflect:”Distrust of politics has been a widespread and understandable sentiment for a long time. It is up to us, who have public responsibilities, to do whatever is necessary so that people can regain their trust in representative democracy, a system that has no alternative in the model of a liberal state.“.
In this scenario, as Silvio Berlusconi pointed out, Forza Italia “it is called to play an essential role. The winning center-right, the center-right of the government must be liberal, moderate, centrist, pro-European“So, the Knight made a quick step on the controversy of the Basic income, whose revision “it is a reasonable compromise: we imagined a different instrument, but the issue of poverty in Italy is objective and very serious in many areas of the country“. The thought of Silvio Berlusconi in this sense also goes”to young people awaiting employment, who continue to burden families already close to the poverty line“. For these reasons “it must be ensured that no one is left behind, even with income integration tools, while knowing that the first key to solving these problems is obviously called growth, development, creation of new jobs“.
Finally, with regard to the tax authorities, Silvio Berlusconi reiterated that Forza Italia supports “with conviction the first steps of a tax reform, which goes in the direction of the reduction of taxes and simplification, with the revision of the rates and the cuts in personal income tax and IRAP, a tax that we have always called ‘robbery tax’“. And he added:”We take into consideration the reasons of those who do business and those who work, because the recovery of the country walks on the legs of companies and workers“.