Dossieraggi, Meloni: "We need to put an end to the crap"

“We need to put an end to the disgust” of the dossiers, while the “arguments with which the Court of Bologna asks the European Court of Justice for authorization to disapply yet another Italian law”, regarding the case of migrants in Albania, have more the flavor of “a propaganda leaflet than a court document”, especially that of Nazi Germany. Interviewed by Bruno Vespa for ‘Five minutes’ and ‘Porta a Porta’, Giorgia Meloni doesn’t tell her.

The Prime Minister spares no one. The president of Stellantis, John Elkann, could have avoided a “lack of respect towards Parliament”, said the prime minister, commenting on Elkann’s refusal to allow himself to be heard on the group’s crisis, while on the part of CGIL and UIL, who the general strike was proclaimed on November 29 against the economic measure, there is “a very small prejudice”. Regarding the case of the dossiers, “I think that in this country there is now an information market: just as jewels were once stolen from people’s homes, today it happens with sensitive information. We continue to see cases of all kinds”, “now there is a case in Milan, it seems there is another in Rome”, said the prime minister. “The most important thing – he continued – concerns the disloyalty of officials. Hacking is not the most important issue: our databases are not violated by strangers but by state officials who should protect them and instead use their power to do anything else with that data. It is unacceptable. We must be implacable and I don’t say this only for them but also for those who have the duty of supervision, because it is also unacceptable that their superiors do not know it.”

Elkann, Meloni then observed, “did not just say no to Parliament: he said ‘no because I am waiting for the government table’. Without prejudice to the fact that I fear that John Elkann is missing the fundamentals of the Italian Republic, because they are two completely other than the table at Palazzo Chigi and the request for a hearing by Parliament, I would have avoided this lack of respect towards Parliament”.

“Then – continued Meloni – we held several discussions with Stellantis. But those discussions did not lead to the development agreements that usually close these discussions”. “We will continue the dialogue” with Stellantis “as we do with everyone, without subjection and without conditioning. This does not change the fact that it would have been more than sensible” for John Elkann “to go to Parliament”. “We are always ready for the citizens’ vote, for all referendums”, he then said, commenting on the words of the Keeper of the Seals, Carlo Nordio, on a possible referendum on the separation of careers in the judiciary.

And as regards the American presidential elections, “I don’t think that anything will change for us. Clearly foreign policy choices that involve us could change, such as on Ukraine and the Middle East. In a delicate situation this is something that will have to be understood and certainly also involves us. But I have worked well with this Administration, and I think I would work very well with an Administration of the opposite nature. So I am not at all worried about the outcome of the elections in any case”. “Currently – continued Meloni – there is a Democrat named Joe Biden as president of the United States of America and since we came to power our exports to the United States have increased by 15 billion. Because the allied nations remain nations allies, regardless of what happens as governments change.”

On the announcement by the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci to bring 10 thousand Indian nurses to Italy, the Prime Minister instead responded that “this can happen, but it is a last resort”. “We had a limited number of students in Medicine which led us to the issue of a shortage of doctors, then we passed the entrance test for Medicine with the ticks. Today we have a shortage of doctors, not an absolute one, but in some specialties. We need to encourage and convince doctors to prefer the National Health Service to the rest, where they are not present, they are the last resort,” said Meloni.

Finally, “we must thank Bucci for accepting the challenge” of running for president of the Liguria region. “I think he will be an extraordinary regional president, as he was as mayor”, he told the prime minister, highlighting that “since this government has been in existence we have voted 12 times between regions and autonomous provinces and the centre-right has won 11 times”.