A secular ‘pilgrimage’ on the island of Ventotene. It is the response of the Democratic Party of Lazio launched by the regional secretary Daniele Leodori to the words of the premier in the Montecitorio classroom against that manifesto that represented the spark for the path of European integration. The mobilization platform is clear: “In response to the recent declarations of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni which expressed its distance from the Ventotene Manifesto, we invite all citizens, associations and institutions to participate in a flash mob to be held on Saturday 22 March 2025 at 12.00 at the Island of Ventotene, a symbol of the birth of the idea of a united and democratic Europe. The Ventotene manifesto“, remember Leodori“drawn up in 1941 by Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi ed Eugenio Colornirepresents a milestone in the construction of the European Union, promoting values of unity, peace and cooperation between peoples. The recent statements of President Meloni have aroused a heated political and institutional debate, highlighting the need to forcefully reaffirm the founding principles of Europe “.
The flash mob will therefore be a moment of collective reflection and celebration of European values, with public readings of the manifesto and personality interventions of the world of culture and politics. “The event is open to all those who believe in the importance of a united and solidarity Europe. We invite the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to participate in this symbolic moment in this”, concludes the appeal. At the moment they replied ‘present’ above all local exponents of the Democratic Party. There will certainly be the senator Filippo Sensithe deputies Andrea chance e Roberto Morassut.
There will not be, however, Federico Fornarothe protagonist of the harsh intervention in which he asked the Premier to “kneel” in front of the heroes who conceived and written the manifesto, also managing to get out of the confinement of the island. The DEM deputy is engaged in the territory of his electoral college. The presence of Elly Schlein. The national leaders seem to be willing to leave the initiative to the territorial levels, also in order not to make attention to what is defined as the real political ‘node’ within the majority, or the distances between the center -right parties concerning the European rearmament plan. “Giorgia Meloni’s attack on the Ventotene Manifesto is yet another attempt to mask the internal divisions of his majority, increasingly split in Europe”, explains the MEP of the Delegation of the Democratic Party, Matteo Ricci.
The accusations of the opposition and the divisions in the majority
“The premier made a rally intervention to Atreju and attacked in a damn and irresponsible way to disguise his serious internal divisions”, reiterates the deputy Pd, Piero de Luca: “We are faced with a striking political fact: the Prime Minister does not have a mandate to negotiate the European defense on the basis of the majority resolution approved yesterday”.
On this, the dem are on the same wavelength as the other oppositions. For Carlo Calenda“If this controversy had not been there, the fact of the day would have been that the league breaks the government, because if Meloni does not have the mandate to approve something that want both Fdi and the government then ends”. For Matteo Renzi The ‘knot’ to be circumvented, for Meloni, are instead “bills, inflation, foreign policy in which Giorgia Meloni is making the faithful of Trump even when Trump puts the duties against Italy”. For Nicola Fratoianni The ‘Mina’ to be defused for Meloni is “bomber leyen”, that is “to explain to the voters, whatever their political faith, which it is right to spend 800 billion for new weapons while we do not have hospitals and you cannot replace the old Tacs, while the workers have starvation wages, while industrial policies languish”.
The political clash moves to the Senate
And while Lazio’s Dem organize themselves to bring their homage to the fathers of Europe, the clash between majority and opposition moves from Montecitorio to Palazzo Madama. At the opening of the works of the Senate room, he was the president of the senators of Italy Viva, Raffaella’s shirtto take the floor to underline that what happened yesterday “is serious for democracy, for Europe, and it should be talked about in the classroom. I believe that extrapolating the words of people to confinement from the context, of heroes, both the most serious, shameful and inhuman has been seen in recent years, at a crucial moment for the life of the country. It is something that dishonors our country and does not do justice to the history of Europe, to the history of Europe, to anti -fascism.
Immediately afterwards it was the senator Dario Parrini To underline that “Giorgia Meloni sculpeted and outraged a chamber of Parliament, confirming its extraneousness to the founding values of our Republic and the Constitution”.
The reply of the majority
From the majority they replied Claudio Borghi (Lega), Maurizio Gasparri (FI), Lucio Malan (FDI) of Michaela Biancofiore (Civici d’Italia) who defended the right to criticize the manifesto and freedom of expression. “I understand the symbolism and the protagonists, they do not escape me. But it can also be said that in some documents of the past, they were Gentile’s books on the caught, they were the theses of Gramsci or the Manifesto of Ventotene, some things were not going well,” he added.