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Military expenses, Conte insists but Draghi warns: the commitments undertaken cannot be questioned, so the majority agreement is no longer valid. And he goes up to Colle

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Military expenses, Conte insists but Draghi warns: the commitments undertaken cannot be questioned, so the majority agreement is no longer valid.  And he goes up to Colle

The president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, arrived at Palazzo Chigi for the scheduled meeting with the Prime Minister Mario Draghi. On the discussion table the issue of the increase in military spending and relations with NATO. The newly re-elected leader of the 5 Star Movement asked Prime Minister Mario Draghi for “more courage” and regret for “the postponement of EU solutions”. So on the knot of nodes, that is the Dl on military spending, the pentastellated number one expressed opposition to “the increase” because “the priorities of the Italians are other”. In the Def – says Conte – there should be no increase, but “the knot must be clarified”. “There was an odg in the Senate committee who evoked this commitment. M5s asked to vote for it but it was not done. Now – continues Giuseppe Conte – the work of the commission has been updated. On this (with Prime Minister Draghi, ed) we had an argument. We have different evaluations ». Of course, “I do not question the agreements with NATO,” says the head of the 5Stelle at the end of the meeting with Prime Minister Mario Draghi at Palazzo Chigi but the increase in military spending is now improvised, the priorities of the Italians are other ” . After the face to face between the premier and the former premier, Mario Draghi went up to the Quirinale by Sergio Mattarella to report. After all, Mario Draghi replied to Conte that the commitments undertaken with NATO, in such a delicate moment on the doorstep of Europe, cannot be called into question. If this were to happen, the pact that holds the majority in place would be broken. The government – the head of the government would have said – intends to respect and firmly reaffirm the NATO commitments on the increase in military spending to 2% of GDP.

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Meanwhile, there is also a clash in the commissions. “The paradox is that we did not put the majority in difficulty, it is the majority, with the 5 Stars and Leu, which got themselves into difficulty”. The leader of the Fdi group in the Senate, Luca Ciriani, summarizes what happened in the joint Foreign Affairs and Defense at Palazzo Madama on the Ukraine. In the meeting, the government accepted without reformulation the agenda presented by Giorgia Meloni’s party on military spending. And Fdi has not asked to put it to the vote. “We did not do it because for us the goal was achieved, there was never the intention to spite the majority”, explains Isabella Rauti. But the “spitefulness” manifested itself anyway when M5S and Leu asked for the vote on the agenda on military spending. Request rejected as it was not the proposers, or Fdi, who requested it. “With our president things would have been different”, the pentastellato Vito Crimi hissed, referring to Vito Petrocelli, head of Foreign Affairs and absent today. A short circuit inside the majority and the Democratic Party ‘warns’ the 5 Stars: “We understand the need to mark political points but this cannot be done by putting the government in difficulty”. But the 5 Stars insist: “It is unacceptable that the government has decided to accept the FdI agenda on increasing military spending to 2% of GDP by 2024 despite the strong opposition of the main majority force”, thundered the pentastellated leaders in the Senate. “We will therefore insist on the request to put this agenda to the vote.” And there were also moments of tension between Fdi and M5S. “Do this only to please the defense industry,” is the accusation that the pentastellati would have made. To add to the dose the vice president of the Senate, Paola Taverna: from Fdi “only vulgar propaganda”, words that would have caused the reaction of Ignazio La Russa and some over-the-top tones in the meeting, according to what is reported. The joint meeting of Foreign Affairs and Defense should resume after the Senate classroom: the goal is in fact to sack the dl Ukraine to bring him to the examination of the hemicycle of Palazzo Madama by Thursday. And that there will be a vote of confidence is now taken for granted. Ciriani observes: «Our agenda which, moreover, follows both the words of Draghi» on military spending and the agenda «approved in the Chamber. Now, since it has been accepted by the government, it is an integral part of the text, so we will see what the five stars in the Chamber will do on the inevitable trust, given the divisions in the majority ».

The Democratic Party for its part tries not to snatch but warns the 5 Stars. “We understand the needs of each party in marking the political points but – warns Alessandro Alfieri, senator of the Foreign Affairs Department and coordinator of the Reformist Base led by Minister Lorenzo Guerini – not to the detriment of government action, not to the detriment of the compactness of the action government in a difficult phase “. There remains the willingness of the dem to find an agreement in view of other measures in which the issue of 2% of GDP for military spending will come back, perhaps as early as the Def in April. “Yesterday as Pd – adds Alfieri – we proposed an agenda of all the majority forces to say that one could reason on the gradual increase in defense spending in the context of the construction of European defense: the 5 Stars did not say no and they missed an opportunity. But we renew our availability on how to build this path in other measures “.

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