Meloni government, the vote of confidence in the Chamber
Meloni government
After completing the team of ministers and sworn in at the Quirinale, the government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is ready to ask Parliament for confidence, presenting itself to the Chamber on 25 October 2022 at 11 am. the right plays with an easy majority in both chambers and, as we saw in the voting for the president of the Senate, also on a nice handful of anonymous snipers among the opposition.To get the first vote of confidence of her government, Giorgia Meloni has chosen to present herself to the Chamber of Deputies at 11, at which time the Prime Minister will address her programmatic statements to the Chamber. The session will then be suspended to allow the leader of the Brothers of Italy to deliver the text of her speech to the Senate as well. The general discussion will start at 1pm and will continue for about two hours. Meloni's reply is scheduled for 5 pm, which will be followed by the explanations of vote by deputies and deputies, while the actual voting will begin at 7 pm. After the first assembly, Meloni will present himself in the Senate for the second passage on 26 October.
What Meloni said to the Chamber
Giorgia Meloni began her speech by thanking her right-wing allies, the President of the Republic Sergia Mattarella and the outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The head of mission of the US embassy in Italy, Shawn Crowly, also attended the intervention.Meloni then attacked the previous executives as "dramatically distant from the indications of the voters". According to Meloni, her government is going to interrupt "this great Italian anomaly" by creating an executive "fully representative of the popular will".
The president then continued attacking those from abroad who warned of the possible sovereign drift, in Polish or Hungarian style, of the new Italian government, claiming that she did not want to "go along with that drift according to which democracy belongs more to some than to others ".
At the same time, he launched an assault on the opposition forces, defined as" valid and combative "and" more than able to make their voices heard without any help external "because" those from abroad who say they want to watch over Italy do not disrespect me or this government, but the Italian people who have no lessons to take ".
Meloni then spoke of the Union European Union, arguing that the government's goal is not to "slow down or sabotage European integration, but to help direct it towards greater effectiveness in response to crises" by respecting the rules in force and helping to change the rules that do not work, as in the case of l Stability Pact. "Freedom has a cost" Meloni then said introducing the theme of the Italian role within the Atlantic Alliance, arguing how Italy has demonstrated its loyalty to NATO over the years.
"Giving in to blackmail Putin on energy would not solve the problem "said the premier introducing the topic of the energy crisis and Italian support for Ukraine, with respect to which she confirmed the country's support, and then underlined how the government intends to ask in Europe the balanced division of the burdens deriving from the energy crisis.
"Our seas have gas fields that we have a duty to fully exploit" continued Meloni, speaking of the need to diversify national energy sources, thus confirming, as already anticipated by Minister Adolfo Urso, the government's intention to reopen the chapter of drilling in the Adriatic.
The bad idea of not having a Ministry of Innovation and of the digital The government renounces the delegation that was held by Paola Pisano and Vittorio Colao in the last governments. Despite the billions that the PNRR assigns to digital and the strategic technological challenges for Italy
Little about the environment, nothing about digital
Meloni then brought the discourse on the economy, arguing that " debt is not the blind austerity imposed in past years ”, perhaps forgetting the austerity policies implemented during the fourth Berlusconi government of which you were minister. Instead, you bring as a recipe for debt reduction a "lasting and structural economic growth" to be achieved by favoring foreign investments but countering "predatory logic that jeopardizes strategic national production".But the speech really got underway when Meloni officially announced the government's intention to work for a "reform in the presidential sense, to move from an interloquent democracy to a decisive democracy", then arguing that he did not wanting to give up "reforming Italy if we were faced with prejudicial oppositions".
The declarations then veered towards the intention of giving help to mountain communities, to all municipalities and to the South, by strengthening infrastructural interventions, with the aim of "mending not only the north to the south, but also the Tyrrhenian coast to the Adriatic coast and the islands to the rest of the peninsula ". Infrastructures, according to Meloni, are also necessary to "face the climate emergency and environmental challenges".
As well as the environmental issue, the issue of digital transition has also just been touched upon by Meloni, on which the Prime Minister has only vehemently emphasized how it must "go hand in hand with technological sovereignty, the national cloud and cybersecurity" . Not a surprise from a government that has chosen not to have any ministry for innovation and digital.
Meloni then detailed the government's ideas for a "new tax pact based on three pillars", ie the reduction of the tax burden on businesses and households (through a family quotient and the extension of the "flat tax"), the "fiscal truce" and a "tight fight against tax evasion", through a modification of the "criteria for evaluating the results of the revenue agency, which we want to anchor to the amounts actually collected ".
The premier contested and criticized the citizenship income, arguing that she wanted to" maintain and, where possible, increase the necessary financial support for the subjects effectively fragile not in conditions of work ", but" for others "," the solution cannot be citizenship income, but work. " a ”, she added.
Turning to civil rights, Meloni argued that the government“ will never limit the existing freedoms of citizens and businesses. We will see the proof of the facts, even on civil rights and abortion, who lied and who told the truth in the electoral campaign about what our real intentions were ". Returning briefly to the environmental issue, you instead argued that "there is no more convinced ecologist than a conservative".
On the family and the birth rate, Meloni described the family as a "training institution" to be supported and protected and "with this support the birth rate". According to the premier, "to get out of the demographic glaciation" we need "an impressive, economic but also cultural plan, to rediscover the beauty of parenthood and put the family back at the center of society" by increasing "the amounts of the single and universal allowance and to help young couples to obtain a mortgage for their first home, gradually working towards the introduction of the family quotient ”.
"Legality will be the guiding star of the new government" said Meloni, to introduce the theme of justice and announce a reform of the judiciary "to put an end to the current logic that undermines the credibility of the Italian judiciary" .
On the issue of migration, Meloni brought back to the classroom the idea of helping migrants at home, going to "remove the causes that lead migrants, especially the younger ones, to abandon their land, their cultural roots, their family to seek a better life in Europe ". "All we want to do in relation to immigration is to prevent smugglers from making entry into Italy" he added.
How the new Parliament will be composed In total, the center-right has elected 115 senators and senators and 237 deputies and deputies, the center-left 85 and 44 respectively, the 5-star Movement 28 and 52, while Action and Italia Viva 9 and 21.
The numbers
In the Chamber, the right counts on 237 seats out of 400 , of which 44 from Forza Italia, 67 from the Lega, 7 from Noi moderati and 119 from Fratelli d'Italia. While in the Senate there are 115 seats out of 200, of which 18 from Forza Italia, 29 from the Lega, one of us moderates and 66 from the Brothers of Italy. This means that Meloni will have to manage not to make his ally Silvio Berlusconi nervous in order to easily gain confidence in the Senate, unless he resolves to have the snipers intervene again who, from the opposition benches, have assured Ignazio the Russian the seat of the second office of the state.Let's get used to seeing the Chamber and Senate always "deserted" With the deputies passed from 630 to 400 and the senators from 315 to 200, the hemicycles of the Chamber and the Senate seemed empty even during the voting operations to elect the two presidents, but in this case absenteeism has nothing to do with it.After the vote of confidence, starting from 27 October, the first task of parliament will be to form the permanent collegiate members of the hemicycle with specific expertise on a subject, in charge of examining the bills before they are discussed in the classroom. The commissions should elect their respective presidents in the week of November 7.
