The majority tightens on the maneuver and looks to the USA

“We will collaborate with anyone”. In the government it is repeated like a ‘mantra’ that Italy’s position will always remain the same, maximum collaboration whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins. And that, therefore, regardless of who wins, relations between our country and the United States “will remain very solid”. Then obviously there is the position of the majority parties. The League is firmly in support of the Republican candidate.

“We will respect the free choice of American citizens (unlike those who shout ‘fascism’ both in Rome and in Washington) but a victory for Donald Trump would bring peace both in Ukraine and in the Middle East, and for me this is a supreme value”, says the secretary of the via Bellerio party Matteo Salvini. In Fdi, the deputy elected in the foreign constituency Andrea Di Giuseppe is exposed: in the event of Trump’s victory, Italy, thanks to the credibility of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, would become a privileged interlocutor of the United States”, he states.

“Better Trump than Harris”, observes another ‘big’ of Fratelli d’Italia. But even those who support the American tycoon are aware of the possible risks of a victory for the former US president both on the international stage and in the relationship between America and NATO (among other things, on Tuesday the Prime Minister will see the secretary of ‘Atlantic Alliance Mark Rutte).

Fears, also linked to the consequences of the war in Ukraine, which are spreading, for example, among some blues, even if the party does not take sides in any way (the preference for Harris was Marina Berlusconi), with the belief that relations between the United States and our country will remain very strong, whatever happens. The opposition is pressing: “President Meloni – says the Avs deputy, Luana Zanella – doesn’t he feel the need to defend our country from Donald Trump’s frenzied attacks? Because he doesn’t respond to the tycoon according to whom Europe, including Italy, are robbing the United States?”. But this week, beyond the US elections on November 5, the executive’s attention is turned to the maneuver.

Also scheduled for November 5th is the meeting with the unions at Palazzo Chigi on the budget law. And today the hearings in Parliament will begin. The invitation received from the forces supporting the government is to present a few amendments, but the Lega and Fdi are pressing. The deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani defends the structure of the measure: “It is correct and balanced, which goes in the right direction, but – warns the secretary of Forza Italia – there are some statist and dirigiste aspects which are unacceptable and risk tarnishing the image of a measure which It is in the interests of businesses and families.”

“I am referring first of all – he underlines – to the decision to impose the presence of auditors representing the Mef on companies that receive aid and contributions from the State. A rule that recalls the methods of the East German Stasi”. Tajani explains that he is in favor of reopening the terms of the agreement: “greater resources allow the Irpef to be cut even further”. Among the requests is to review the web tax “to protect children” and to eliminate the block on the turnover of the police forces, a request also made by the League.

“This was a budget with very narrow margins”, observes the Undersecretary of Labour, Claudio Durigon, alluding to the three euro increase in minimum pensions, “then Parliament will see if we can still intervene on this or another, but always taking into account the constraints of sustainability”. The League representative assured that “on pensions the League will return to propose measures to link supplementary pensions with compulsory public pensions”. “A macabre ballet by Lega, Forza Italia and Fratelli d’Italia on the skin of Italians”, attacks the dem Arturo Scotto. The government’s objective is to reach the final approval of the budget law before Christmas but it is not certain that it will be able to respect the deadlines.