Open to confrontation and to bring “moderation” after the heated intervention of the action leader, Carlo Calenda Whether with the pentastellati or the carroccio it does not intend to have to deal with it. The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the first time at a national congress of an opposition political force, he also manages to snatch moments of hilarity by contacting the audience accalcate in the event room of the Rome Life Hotel for the second national Calenda Party Congress. “I am here because I come from a story and a political culture that is based on the comparison” and because “the comparison has never annihilated identity”.
Importance of political comparison
“These are fundamental moments for political parties and for the health of democracy”, he immediately clarified by underlining that precisely from the comparisons, carried out also in the context of party conferences with a different DNA, “new and better solutions may emerge: shared priorities can be found”. Meloni also hurries to sweep away from the field the “bizarre theories” advanced by various newspapers to justify the fact of having accepted the invitation of Calenda: “We made a little discussing, with this presence but perhaps we should ask ourselves about why a normal comparison will make discuss”. And then, “I read bizarre things, like the theory according to which I wanted to give me a scroll between the moderates: but I – joke – after the intervention of Calenda Porto moderation”.
Criticisms and answers
Italy, unrelated to the premier, “is that curious country where we move from the criminalization of the opponent to make it a government partner”, but this “is not my political figure” clarifies by remembering to come “from a political history of a community that has made the comparison with the ideas even more distant its size”. The government leader therefore does not hesitate to explain also on the interview, much discussed by the opposition, issued to Financial Times. And it does so, also in this case, immediately freeing the field from “imaginative” readings. I am with Trump and against Europe? “But that’s not what I said – I exclaim – I said that I am always with Italy, that Italy is in Europe and that Europe must also work for the unity of the West, which is a precious asset that cannot be filed lightly”.
Thanks and responsibilities
And after thanking the number one of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyenfor the assist that offered them today, in an interview with Corriere della Sera“I think it is in my responsibility to do what I can to defend or reconstruct, if necessary, this unit” between the two banks of the Atlantic, has insisted Meloni. “Of course – he admits – there are strong and divisive themes, divergences starting from the duties, but one must not act by impulse but rather look for points of balance”.
Response to the criticisms of the PD
And so Meloni also responds to the criticisms of the Democratic Party of Elly Schlein: “I felt leader to invoke the break with Trump, which we must not militarize us, but I did not understand what the proposal is” alternative to Meloni by wanding “those who live in ideological dogmas”. To the leader of action, Calenda, re -elected today secretary of the party with 85% of the votes, the premier – despite the programmatic diversity – instead directs words of esteem: “Action, he says, is a political force that confronts things, which is not afraid to share its solutions” regardless of numbers and consent.
Terre of convergence
Meloni makes it clear that on a political approach, pragmatic and oriented towards the good of the community, there is actually harmony. And in fact, given that the action was presented as a Congress of Coherence, Meloni immediately descends on the merits to highlight the convergence soils: for now, support for Ukraine and clear distance from 5 Star Movement. “The expenses in defense and security are the price of freedom: if you ask someone to guarantee your defense you must know that someone will not do it for free”, points out the premier. Perhaps, Meloni is still wondering there are those who want Europe to become a large community of hippie, demilitarized, hope for the good faith of the other foreign powers? “.
Recognition of Calenda
Words that Calenda likes that does not hesitate to congress to recognize the courage in the position taking, “because defending Ukraine and sending Ukraine aid to the government is not a popular or easy thing”, admits Calenda. The opposite point, for future internal political structures, however remains on the table: “President Meloni made his intervention on his perspective, on his idea of relations with the United States, spoke of his government program, made his intervention” ascertained Calenda but “the real opposite point is not Meloni and Italian politics, it is whether we will be with Germany, with France, with Spain with Spain, with Spain. Build the defense or not. A point that for now, within the framework of a bipolar structure of coalitions, remains unanswered.