«We will be ready: we have the right ideas and the right men. Our time has come. ” Giorgia Meloni pushes on the credibility of her party, Brothers of Italy, and above all relaunches herself at the helm of the next government. “We will transform this infamous era – he assures – into a new Italian Risorgimento”. He is a candidate for the future premiership (“The only reason we want to reach the top is because we know that we can look further from there”) speaking to the more than 4 thousand delegates of the programmatic conference, crammed into a room of the Milano Convention Center, the congress center largest in Europe.
“Draghi ask the EU that the PNRR solve the effects of the crisis”
In the more than 70 minutes of his report he never mentions the leaders of the center-right, nor of the other parties, not even the many open wounds in the coalition. He only pronounces the names of Joe Biden and Mario Draghi. To the first he remembers in a lively way how Europe will pay dearly for the effects of the war: “To the American president – he attacks with applause – I say that we will not be the pack mules of the West: we will pay a higher price than the crisis, we need a fund of compensation”. Then the premier: “We ask Draghi to take this authority of his that is in the cellar, dust it, and go to Europe to ask to review the priorities of the NRP, in order to intervene on the effects of the crisis: environmental sustainability must be balanced with the social one “.
Industrial policy that relaunches Made in Italy
The rest of Meloni’s speech is dedicated to a long and detailed presentation of his program, a recipe for defeating “globalism and globalism beaten by the combined pandemic-war”. She asks Western civilization “not to renounce its values, its soul” and recalls that she, the leader of the European conservatives, has the courage to talk about the problems that afflict the Union, defining herself “much more pro-European than the Solons of Brussels”. She sides with the Ukrainian people who defend her homeland, defined as “the first of mothers” and attacks “the oligarchs of Silicon Valley who allow themselves to censor elected by the people”. Then he relaunches the primacy of Made in Italy, asks for a ministry of the sea, reaffirms the reasons for presidentialism (with a blow to Enrico Letta: “The Democratic Party does not tell me that this reform does not work because one goes to the government with 25%: they they have been there for 5 years with 18% “).
Salvini’s announced farewell
In the background, the permanent tension between Fdi and Lega. Matteo Salvini says he wants to pass by the Conference: “She is in my city, I expect to come and greet her tomorrow or later,” he says. But Ignazio La Russa doesn’t fit in: «It would be a contradiction for us and for him. It is a party demonstration for which we are happy if the group leaders come but it would have been out of order to have the leaders of the other parties come and not speak ». But the Northern League secretary insists: «A greeting is never a contradiction then I will not enter into the political merits. Please, there is an event of an allied party in my city and therefore a greeting, not political but affectionate, is the least that can be done. Then I leave the political content to the others ».