Maneuver, confidence in the Chamber. Chaos in the Chamber over Hannoun

The Chamber Budget Committee has concluded the examination of the amendments to the budget maneuver rejecting all the opposition’s proposals for modification. The Commission gave a mandate to the rapporteurs, Andrea Barabotti of the League, Andrea Mascaretti of FdI and Roberto Pella of FI, to report to the Chamber, where the text therefore arrives identical to the one passed by the Senate in the first reading. Waiting there question of trust by the government. Also in the Chamber was the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti.

Chaos in the Chamber over Hannoun. The Democratic Party, irresponsible right

However, the Chamber became the scene of a clash between the majority and the opposition over the investigation into alleged funds used to finance Hamas. “Fdi requests urgent information from Minister Piantedosi to report on a matter of disconcerting nature”, he announced Sara Kelany recalling that Mohamed Hannoun, the president of the Palestinian Association, was “arrested for very serious crimes: terrorism, subversion, the order says that this subject would be organic to Hamas and that he would have supported it with millions of euros. Fdi has been reporting the danger of this subject for years”, recalls the deputy.

Shortly afterwards, however, the FdI deputy intervened Giovanni Donzelli asking that the head of the Farnesina be the one to report: “I ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, for information”, explains Donzelli: “I understand the nervousness of the opposition given that Hannoun was walking around Europe with the parliamentarian Ascari. A significant flow of money has emerged which left Italy in an irregular manner and this could have complicated Italy’s international relations, such as those who – like the deputy Boldrini – had themselves photographed in the premises of this Chamber together with Hannoun. the superficiality of the opposition could impact Italy’s international image. The Government is an accomplice to peace, not to genocide. This risks complicating the exceptional work done by the Meloni government at an international level to bring peace” to the Middle East, adds Donzelli.

Immediate reaction of the M5s, Ascari’s group to which he belongs: “We don’t even wait for the investigation, in this case we don’t say that we have to wait for the sentence”, underlines the group leader Riccardo Ricciardi“if someone has profited in a vile way from the movement of solidarity towards the Palestinian population, we are the first to condemn. But we are proud of those who, like our Stefania Ascari, she went to the West Bank to document settler violence. We are not ashamed of any discussion.”

For the Democratic Party, the Fratelli d’Italia initiative is “irresponsible” as it undermines the timing of the Budget law: “You cannot be complicit in a cold attack from the majority in times like these, if you have decided to go to the provisional exercise we have the decency to say so”, attacks Federico Fonraro addressing the President of the Chamber, Fabio Rampelli: “There are 240 agendas. This is irresponsible behavior on the part of the party with the relative majority. I wonder what you know behind this which is not an initiative of a party, but an action organized around the table”.

President Rampelli responds by explaining that he gave the floor to Donzelli “asking if the intervention was motivated by another circumstance, given that he was asking Tajani and not Piantedosi for information, and this circumstance in itself required me to listen to him. I tried to understand whether his intervention was specious or of merit, after reminding my colleague that if he had developed similar arguments I would have taken the floor away from him. As it overlapped, I invited him to conclude. For this reason it does not qualify absolutely a precedent, from no point of view.”