The new president of the Council has registered her program in continuity in terms of economic and international policies.
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For her entry into office, Giorgia Meloni has chosen to camp her country as a boat taken in turmoil, with her, new president of the Italian council, in the role of the captain promising to the crew to hold the rudder ‘A firm hand. In the programmatic speech that she delivered Tuesday, October 25 in the morning, in front of the Chamber of Deputies, Giorgia Meloni spun the naval metaphor, promising to lead the “safe” country. The Italian deputies gave him the mandate in the evening, granting him confidence with 235 votes for, 154 against and five abstentions. “The way is traced, let’s go ahead,” she said on Twitter. Wednesday, October 26, it is up to the senators to confirm in its functions the government which it formed on October 21, less than a month after the elections which it won at the head of a coalition of the Italian right.
First woman to direct the executive since the Foundation of the Republic, in 1946, M me meloni, president of the far -right party Fratelli d’Italia, applied herself to embody the Continuity in the registers of economics and international relations – which leaves him little room for maneuver – while imposing his mark on the cultural front. She has repeatedly evoked conservative references to the traditional family and has more readily referred to the “nation” – a rare concept in the Italian political lexicon – than to “country” or to the “State”.
Emergency of the energy crisis
However, it was first necessary to reassure the fundamentals. On Europe first, the leader of the right coalition, which had for a time claimed the release of the euro, recalled the fate of “great founding nation” of Italy, and undertook to respect Union’s budgetary rules while working on their development. “I do not ignore curiosity (…) aroused by the posture that the government will observe towards the European institutions,” she admitted, before affirming that the Italian position will not be animated by a spirit of opposition. It also called for closer European cooperation in energy matters. On the international level, M Me meloni reiterated its support for Ukraine and its attachment to the Atlantic Alliance, guaranteeing the Italian national interest.
Obliged passage, this former admirer of Benito Mussolini denounced all totalitarianisms, “understood fascism”. While in the past, the installation in the Italian political landscape of Giorgia Meloni had made himself to the rhythm of radically conservative declarations on social issues, she renewed her commitment not to return to civil rights obtained by people homosexual and the right to abortion. She also paid tribute to Italian politicians from all sides which allowed her to break in turn “the glass ceiling”. While evoking his attachment to the family and sprinkling his words with some religious references, the new president of the Council insisted that her priorities were economic.
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