Orsini: energy is a national security issue. Renzi-Calderoli back-and-forth on autonomy

The League's positions 'do not bring dents, but the need to make a synthesis. The difference between us' on the right 'and them is that we manage to make a synthesis. We will certainly find a synthesis' for the arms decree to Ukraine. So says Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, interviewed from the Atreju stage by Enrico Mentana.

'I was born in Republican Italy and I never wanted to go back. I also want to look back to the time before I was born, but I was born in '47. No one can prevent me from looking forwards and backwards as I see fit, but I was born in 1947. And I take advantage: I would give my life to defend the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution. Clear? I'm saying this so we can remove any controversy'. So said the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, interviewed during Atreju.

The problem of energy costs is 'very serious'. In Europe 'some initial moves have been made, but more need to be done to reach a situation of competitive parity between us and other countries'. So said Emma Marcegaglia, president and CEO of Marcegaglia Investments, speaking at Atreju.

On the green deal, continued the past president of Confindustria, 'it is important that Europe is at the forefront, but the way it is being carried out is not good as it is leading to deindustrialisation. In recent years we have lost 1.2 million jobs in energy-intensive companies. The approach has been ideological, not based on what technologies we need. I say this clearly: the targets we set ourselves are not sustainable. Today we do not have the technologies to achieve zero emissions by 2040'.

"I give credit to this government that it is doing something that others have not done: preparing a plan to increase the number of detention places so that it is clear that the objective is that those who have to serve a sentence do so under civilised conditions. Our position is not that of Salis: those who do wrong must pay, but in civilised conditions'. This was said by Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, interviewed from the Atreju stage by Enrico Mentana. "My proposal is in a personal capacity, because I also confronted with the President of the Council, who told me that 'Ignazio, you have always done it'," he added.

'Italian cuisine is the first in the world. We must try today to transform what is a very important result, the recognition of the value of our history, our tradition, our identity, into economy and work''. So says the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, speaking at Atreju. 'Italy needs to rediscover some points of reference, value what it has and we have everything. We lack nothing, we lack nothing that the human mind can imagine,'' the minister added.

"Where are we with the small parcel tax? We have the discussion table with all the associations representing this extraordinary emblem of the Mimit sector, to which we will be able to give comfort with the measures just announced by the European Commission at our explicit request, i.e. that of a tariffs at Customs even for small parcels. We are talking about an 'invasion of Chinese locusts' that are putting a strain on the European fashion and clothing production system, among other things by misleading consumers'. This was said by the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, speaking on the sidelines of Atreju. "With the measure that is being discussed in the budget law, which is in addition to the tariffs prepared at the border by the European Commission, a small tax is introduced for the delivery of packages that come from China, certainly not those that are made and produced in our Europe, which is necessary to counter this gigantic phenomenon that is growing more and more every day called ultra fast fashion, which also stems from the tariffs that the American government has placed on some Chinese products that, no longer being able to enter or having difficulty entering the American market, are heading for an invasion on the European market, and we must counter this competition,' Urso concludes.

"If I can give one piece of advice, as I give it to the wide field, this country is heavily infiltrated by Putin's friends, we see them on television from morning to night, mocking the guys who are fighting, saying that Putin is peaceful: stay away from the Putinists because they answer to Putin they answer neither to the national government nor to the Fatherland, I am referring from your side to Matteo Salvini who is a jinx, you will see". Thus Action leader Carlo Calenda speaking at a panel on Ukraine at Atreju.

Back-and-forth on the Atreju stage between Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi and Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomy Roberto Calderoli. "At the moment autonomy is in the book of dreams, after which if Calderoli succeeds in realising it... let it be a little less of a swine of the things he has done," Renzi attacked. The minister's reply was prompt: 'It is a confrontation between five guests, I hope the others can also speak and not just you.

'To the young people of Atreju I want to say that on autonomy those against were those of An...'. Thus Matteo Renzi, during the debate on autonomy at Atreju. 'When we proposed the reform of the fifth article, Meloni - who was already then making herself heard, beating about the bush - said "I want to abolish the regions",' the former premier continued.

"The reform of the electoral law? Let's see the formal proposal that will arrive and we will obviously discuss it in Parliament, in the most appropriate institutional forum." This was said by M5S leader Giuseppe Conte, speaking from the stage of Atreju, the FdI kermesse underway in Rome.

At the close of the panel on reforms at Atreju, a new clash between Minister Maria Elisabetta Casellati and Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi. The centre-left senator is the one who rekindles the fight, talking about the Borghi-Musolino amendment on the premierate reform. 'We have presented it, and there is the negative opinion of the minister,' insists Renzi. "Constitutional reforms are done together and we have always said that we are willing to do it. I fight for my ideas and for me it is a boast to be booed,' Renzi pressed in front of a few murmurs from the audience. "Matteo, you have finished the rally," Minister Roberto Calderoli said as he stood up. "Robertino stay calm," countered Renzi. The sparks between the ministers and Renzi continued even as the speakers left their chairs and stood for the final photos. Interrupting a new squabble between Casellati and Renzi is FdI's head of organisation Giovanni Donzelli, who takes the microphone, says thank you and points out to the Iv leader: 'No one has booed you here'. Minister Guido Crosetto also arrives on stage at the end and jokingly takes Renzi in his arms as if to carry him off the stage.

"When young people speak, when they criticise us, we have to let them speak. Yesterday it happened with the minister" Bernini "who ridiculed them, that's not good. They challenged the medical test which is not working. Let's listen to them, we have to know how to listen to them. Giorgia Meloni said when the government took office 'when there are young people protesting in the streets, I will look at them with sympathy because I was one of them'. Now I don't see things going like that'. This was said by the leader of the M5s, Giuseppe Conte, speaking from the stage of Atreju, the FdI kermesse underway in Rome.

"In the last ten years we have witnessed governments led by people not directly elected by the people. This has fuelled a growing distrust in politics. From 2012 to 2022 there have been five successive governments: Monti, Renzi, Gentiloni, Conte I, Conte II and Draghi. This instability has cost Italy EUR 265 billion in interest on its public debt, a figure that exceeds the total amount of the NRP resources. Resources that, with more stability, could have been better used to meet the needs of many Italian citizens'. This was said by the Minister for Reforms, Elisabetta Casellati, during her speech at Atreju.

"Matteo Renzi's proposed constitutional reform did not provide for the direct election of either the president of the Council or the president of the Republic or the condominium administrator. When Renzi had the power to make the reform he could present it as he describes it today: the amendment he is talking about was to be made when he had the power to govern. Instead, the reform proposal was different and was in fact rejected by the people. If there is talk of direct election of the head of government, it is thanks to the centre-right's proposal. If Renzi agrees, he should vote for it. The entire centre-left is sceptical because they tell us that with this reform we are going to take powers away from the President of the Republic. Renzi says the opposite and remains alone in the world. In practice you could only vote on his reform if there was only him in Parliament'. This was stated by Chamber of Deputies Vice-President Fabio Rampelli during the debate 'The reform season' during Fratelli d'Italia's Atreju event.

"I received the Pa in a complicated situation" with "an average age of 52 years", as well as delayed contract renewals and poor training. "To function, the Pa must have adequate human capital, motivated and trained, all this in the Pa I received I did not find. We have rethought the competitions, hired 600,000 people, and for the first time the curve of public employees is rising again and the average age has dropped to 48 in these three years'. This was stated by Public Administration Minister Paolo Zangrillo, host of Atreju.

"Free to air Serie A matches? These are evaluations that I don't have to make and I can't make myself, but certainly in these last few years we are trying to find the greatest revenues, probing all possible areas: maybe it could also be an idea". So said Gigi Buffon to Atreju commenting on Pier Silvio Berlusconi's idea of broadcasting the Sunday night Serie A match free to air.

"The autonomy question takes out of the wardrobe what everyone thought had gone into the wardrobe. It never went there. And there is not only differentiated autonomy, we are also reforming three statutes: Sicily, Trentino, Friuli. Then there is also differentiated autonomy, approved in 2024. Four regions (Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont and Liguria) have asked for negotiations to be started and they have been underway for a year on civil protection, professions, supplementary pensions and health care'. Autonomy Minister Roberto Calderoli told Atreju.

'The South, the centre in particular,' he recalled, 'had been attracted by differentiated autonomy. Out of 15 ordinary statute regions, 14 asked for differentiated autonomy. Until February 2023, until there was Bonaccini in the front row with his under-secretary for autonomy who was more autonomist than Zaia. When Schlein became party secretary, the four centre-left governors received a phone call ordering them to be against and vote against autonomy. The slogan that passed was that autonomy splits Italy. I maintain that it is an empowerment. As Zaia says, in some regions we need more state and in others more autonomy, and where the region does not intervene, the state must intervene.

"I believe that the President of the Council is the President of the Council of all Italians and, when she talks about foreign policy, my suggestion is to avoid attacking the opposition. It's important that Abu Mazen was there, it's important that Italy cooperates with the plan wanted by Tony Blair and then made its own by Donald Trump. However, I think that much more can and must be done on foreign policy. Because it is a period in which we are experiencing so many contradictions and I would suggest to the Italian foreign minister to jump a little less on the stages and to be a little more incisive'. This was said by Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi arriving at Atreju, the FdI kermesse. 'After that,' he added, 'I am not saying this because we are at Atreju, but it applies everywhere: on foreign policy a country should be united. This is true for the oppositions, which must support the country's work, and it is true for the majority, starting with the government: the Prime Minister should avoid attacking the oppositions even when receiving Abu Mazen'.

"It is not easy today to think too much about the future, today I focus on the present which is between 25 and 31 March. We need the World Cup and we will all cheer". This was said by the minister for sport and youth, Andrea Abodi, during his speech at Atreju. 'In order to extract talent, it must be sought out and then given opportunities because it does not come out on its own,' he added. 'We must have methodology that must be reviewed, in the last 20 years instead we have focused a lot on the way of being on the pitch, taking the tactical organisation to exasperation and taking away the fun'. Abodi then concluded: 'Competence, responsibility and harmony are needed to overcome critical issues'.

"We have seen that especially recently there has been a great passion of the central banks to buy gold. Normally they buy between four hundred and six hundred tonnes a year," but "in the last three years since twenty-two this has almost doubled. They buy about a thousand tonnes a year'. Thus to Atreju, Piero Cipollone, a member of the ECB. "Today, the central banks have so much gold, I think it's thirty-six thousand tonnes at their disposal, which is almost the maximum they had at the time when the convertibility of banknotes still existed, so somehow gold is back in fashion," Cipollone points out. "Banknotes, gold, and other currencies serve as a store of value against a whole series of important risks," recalls Cipollone, who, in citing a survey on the massive purchase of gold, indicates that "central banks have told us that the first concern is that it can be a defence against inflation, against risks in the financial markets, and in any case a guarantee of the country's ability to cope with possible external shocks.

'Social sport is the element that has qualified and characterised our government action in recent years. We have wanted to define an Italian model that is not satisfied with sports results and performances, but that strikes a balance between this component, which is decisive, with social sport, the one that starts from the bottom, sport for all, the one that the Constitution has been reciting for two years now, and that we are trying to make available everywhere'. Thus the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi speaking at Atreju in Rome.

'We have focused on oratories, but we could also focus on schools, where sport has yet to establish itself definitively in the suburbs. Social sport,' he reiterated, 'is primary for us, because it is the place where risks are consecrated and where risks often become news, and we are not content with simply accompanying the news with indignation, but we want to commit ourselves as the President of the Council demonstrated precisely in Caivano, where a way of dealing with reality has started, especially when it does not work, and when it does not work sport is often not present, which makes politics change the narrative towards sport, which often emerges when you win. Instead we want to act especially where there are gaps, shortcomings, we want to affirm the principle of sport as a social immune defence'.

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Youth and sport, more facilities from the suburbs to the schools

09 December 2025

The digital euro is particularly important for Europe "because as the digital payments space expands, the presence of European operators in this space is almost zero". This was said by Piero Cipollone, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, speaking at the Fdi Atreju initiative. Listening to Cipollone were, among others, Fdi's group leader in the Senate Lucio Malan and the president of the House Finance Committee Marco Osnato. 'The more the digital payments space expands,' Cipollone added, 'the deeper our dependence on a few major foreign operators becomes. The key words are 'few' and 'non-European', because few recalls the concept of little competition, non-European foreigners recalls the concept of strategic dependence on other operators. We have nothing against foreign operators working in the euro area. The problem is that we would like the euro area to have its own autonomous, independent infrastructure, which does not depend on the decisions of others."

"We recently did an interview, a survey, with central banks to understand why central banks are buying so much gold at the moment and central banks answered us that the first concern is that it can be a defence against inflation and against risks in the financial markets and in any case they are a guarantee of the country's ability to cope with possible external shocks." So said Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, speaking at Atreju.

On the digital euro, "if we have the legislation in place by the end of 2026, at that point we think we will be able to build the whole machine by the first half of 2027 and then in September 2027 begin an experimental phase, the pilot, and then start with the actual launch in 2029." Thus Piero Cipollone, a member of the ECB executive, to Atreju. Cipollone explains that 'the ECB Governing Council, which is called upon to decide on the issue, will not take any decision until there is the regulation approved in the trialogue. We need the parliament to make its determination and then the trialogue can begin. This whole process will probably take - remember - a good part of next year". We need 'time to do three things, basically to build precisely the operational machinery to organise the pilot because this will be a process that will involve citizens, and to communicate, to continue communicating with the legislators and, above all, to start talking to citizens to explain exactly how it will work, what the features will be, what the benefits will be, which is the fundamental aspect,' Cipollone concludes.

"The imam of Turin is fine, he is confined in an Italian Cpr in Caltanissetta in a condition of legitimate deprivation of personal liberty that has resisted the first appeals that the person concerned has legitimately lodged. After that he is perfectly fine'. Thus the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, during his speech at Atreju. "The measure speaks clearly: the fact of being an Imam has nothing to do with it, Islam has nothing to do with it, but certain frequentations and certain behaviour that for reasons of national security led the national authority to subject him to that measure,' he added.

"Lampedusa was a picture of the hypocrisy that circulated on the issue of immigration. A certain immigrationist culture was for opening the door to anyone indiscriminately, but then from the dock onwards it was no longer anyone's problem, so migrants were left to their own devices. We started again from the reception in Lampedusa'. Thus the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, during his speech at Atreju.

Piantedosi alla kermesse di Fratelli d’Italia

Il ministro dell’Interno, Matteo Piantedosi (a sinistra), e il ministro delle Migrazioni e dell’Asilo greco, Athanasios Plevris (sulla destra), durante la Festa di Atreju a Roma

"Democratic countries are obliged to give hospitality to those fleeing wars and persecution in their countries, but at the same time they are also obliged to control their borders. The intersection of these two requirements over the years has meant that border control has become recessive, secondary. Reception must first be given and then with very complicated procedures it must be verified whether the person has the right to stay or not. The turning point is this: we, the countries of first entry, Italy and Greece above all, with these regulations we are realistically applying to do in 28 days, one month, what today statistically happens after years'. Thus the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, during his speech at Atreju.

"For me the main objective will be to reduce waiting lists. I will do this through a single booking centre, which unfortunately still does not exist, and by keeping public facilities and private contracted facilities open in the evenings until 11pm, on Saturdays and Sundays. And I will do it in a structural manner, opening, thanks to the NRP opportunity, community houses and community hospitals to give strength to territorial healthcare'. This was said by MEP and newly elected President of the Puglia Region, Antonio Decato, at Atreju.

'There are, however, issues related to a national coordination on waiting lists, because we feed a national platform,' Decaro added. 'But in this sense there are territorial dissimilarities, as was documented by the programme Report: there are health companies in some regions that make the 'pre-waiting list', so they do not enter the data on the waiting list. There are other health authorities that cancel bookings on waiting lists if they have offered you a diagnostic investigation even 500 kilometres from your home. And, in my region, I have discovered that there is a district director who has issued a circular telling all doctors that when there is an emergency to send patients to emergency rooms, which are already clogged. As soon as I am proclaimed president I will want to meet him and ask him about this circular'.

"No challenge to Tajani's leadership. That of the 17th is just an initiative to discuss together how to make Forza Italia and the centre-right a little more liberal'. This is how the president of the Calabria Region Roberto Occhiuto, on the sidelines of Atreju, responds to those who ask for a comment on the 'In freedom' conference scheduled for Wednesday 17 at Palazzo Grazioli. To those who ask if a new role within the party can be hypothesised in the future, he clarifies: 'No new role in Forza Italia.

What would you ask for in your letter to Father Christmas? 'The gas cylinder'. This was the quip by Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin on the sidelines of his speech at Atreju. The minister, however, pointed out that Italy 'no longer needs to buy gas from Russia. Right now we are buying gas from all over the world. We have almost half of our gas demand, 46-47%, which is covered at the regasifiers with 28 billion cubic metres. Therefore the Russia problem is not there at all'.

Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Ministro ambiente, in occasione dell’evento kermesse di Fratelli d’Italia FDI Atreju 2025. Roma, Sabato 13 Dicembre 2025 (foto Mauro Scrobogna / LaPresse) Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of environment, on the occasion of the Fratelli d'Italia FDI Atreju 2025 event. Rome, Saturday December 13 2025. (Photo by Mauro Scrobogna / LaPresse)

On the energy decree 'a number of articles have been finalised, closed and then stamped. On a part of the evaluations, however, the technical discussion on the modalities is still ongoing" and the evaluation "with respect to European regulations". Thus the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin on the sidelines of his speech at Atreju, the FdI kermesse underway in Rome.

"Many polemicise the measures of Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara out of pure ideological stance. For example on the conduct grade. I personally agree with him. But we asked the Italians in a survey by the Demopolis Institute and it emerged that 75% are in favour of his proposal'. Thus Gino Zavalani, editorial director of Esperia, today at Atreju. The new rule stipulates that one is promoted with a conduct grade above 6, flunking with an insufficient grade will trigger a remedial procedure.

"Welfarism hurts, love is anything but welfarism, it must give answers but solve the causes. There is much to be done: we have old and new poverty, there is a risk that poverty will become chronic. There is a great alliance, the Church is within this alliance, it is our concern'. This was said by Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, in connection from Bologna with the Atreju festival.

"The problem of the centrality of the person," he added, "is innate to the Church. The Church must live the gospel that puts the other, the neighbour, at the centre. The Church not only can but must do much because it is part of her faith. Faith in the Lord means loving others, if you love the Lord you must love others, put the other at the centre, help in emergencies, if he is naked give him a dress, if he is hungry give him food, but then remove the cause of poverty'.

"We have always asked for an industrial plan of the country that had at least a three-year vision, so we worked together to be able to make sure that the hyper-amortisation had 2026, 2027, 2028, let's hope it stays that way, I believe that this is the way to give a long-term vision to those who make investments together with the Zes that is in any case making the South become stronger as we need it." This was said by Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini replying, on the sidelines of the Atreju event, to a question on the economic manoeuvre. 'Obviously,' Orsini added, 'we still need to fly high because our companies need competitiveness and to be competitive and increase productivity we need to make investments.

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Manoeuvre 2026: new EUR 2 tax on parcels up to EUR 150 and doubling of the Tobin Tax

11 December 2025

"Italy must immediately make an investment plan, because our gas generation is also very old, more than 20, 25 years old. We cannot face the future in these situations'. This was stated by Enel CEO Flavio Cattaneo speaking at an Atreju debate. "Also because the other countries that export us, first, increase their political weight towards us, and therefore reduce our independence. Secondly, they also have a problem of increased consumption, and so the fact that when Italy asks to import more energy, they tell you 'this is not possible' may also happen'.

'I am convinced that a single European energy market must be created soon'. This was said by Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini speaking at Atreju. 'Let us remember that even today,' Orsini added, 'there is no supervised market on the price of gas, on ttf which obviously impacts on the cost of energy.

The energy issue 'is a national security problem, a national safeguard of the company'. This was said by Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini speaking at Atreju. 'One of the most important elements for remaining competitive is obviously energy,' Orsini added.

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21 November 2025

Senate President Ignazio La Russa arrived at Atreju, the FdI event, where he will speak in the late afternoon. The second highest state office walked through the stands accompanied by Giovanni Donzelli, the party's organisation manager. Many militants stopped him to take a photo or a selfie. La Russa stopped for a few minutes at the National Youth stand, where he posed wearing the youth organisation's T-shirt. After leaving an offering, a young militant joked: 'Santanchè had been more generous'. "But she is rich," the Senate president's ironic reply. He now follows in the front row of the debate with minister Gilberto Pichetto and Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini.

Funding for healthcare 'has increased: this year there is 7.4 billion more, but it is not just a problem of funding. I also ask and would like to have more money for healthcare, but the money we have must be spent well. We are the second oldest nation in the world, the country in Europe with the highest number of centenarians. It means that the SSN works, that the doctors are of great quality, that scientific research in recent years has led to discoveries and innovations in the treatment of diseases. And some narratives are not true: from 2019 to 2023 the number of doctors increased by 1.1 per cent. I read that there are no doctors in hospitals: this is not the case. Unfortunately, it has been a few years that young doctors, all over Europe, do not want to do some specialisations'. Thus Health Minister Orazio Schillaci speaking at Atreju in Rome. 'Health is everyone's good. The Italian SSN,' he recalled, 'is a model recognised throughout the world, even by left and centre-left governments. The narration that is made in Italy, sometimes by the left, is penalising for those who work there. Abroad, every time I am proud: all the other nations recognise in the Italian one a model to imitate and follow. Ours is a universalist system, it cures everyone, and in recent years we have given very important signals'.

Further reading

Doctors and nurses: from criminal shield to free profession what slips to 2026

10 December 2025

We do not want 'an eight-year-old child to be subjected to gender theories that explain to him that in addition to male and female there are neutral subjects' while 'we put sex education in the biological sense in the syllabus'. So says the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara Roma speaking at the Atreju event at the panel 'The school of merit: training, education, respect' being held in Rome. "If you want to deal with these issues, from middle school upwards, you have to make it clear who the speakers are and they have to be people that the school is responsible for, medical psychologists not associations. Then there must be, as Article 30 of the Constitution provides, parental consent. This is freedom. They accused us of replicating Minculpop, but that is on the other side. It lies in the compulsory state education that imposes certain ethically sensitive values on you, he continued, emphasising that 'we with this government have done what people of common sense have often said. When we talk about educating about respect for women, about healthy relationships, about emotional empathy, we are talking about sacrosanct things'. These are actions that 'should prevent sexual violence and feminicide, educating to respect and correct relationships, considering the other as a companion or partner with whom to share a future is fundamental. This has not been done by the left, which continues to complain, it is telling lies because in the new guidelines on civic education we have for the first time introduced all this as compulsory learning objectives. It is with this that the new battle is being waged to overcome the macho culture

"The conduct rule is not a fascist rule. We want to stimulate all young people to responsibility, but a clean young person, an honest young person, a serious, correct young person, who respects others has no fear in the conduct rule. That is the point. We want to counter bullying, arrogance, violence. We want to defend the meek against the violent. This is the democratic school'. Thus the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, during his speech at Atreju.

Further reading

From September, a 6 in conduct is not enough to be promoted

11 August 2025

«Se siamo veri democratici, se amiamo veramente la Costituzione, non possiamo dividerci: le scuole non sono e non dovranno mai essere luoghi di indottrinamento, di propaganda politica, devono abituare lo studente allo spirito critico, al confronto plurale. La scuola delle dittature impone una visione e dice “sei obbligato ad accettarla senza nessun confronto”. A leggere alcune reazioni di ieri, temo ci sia ancora una mentalità totalitaria in alcuni esponenti dell’opposizione: quando mi si contesta il fatto che io voglia fare chiarezza se effettivamente Francesca Albanese durante più lezioni curriculari, cioè lezioni obbligatorie, abbia veramente detto che questo governo è costituito da fascisti, è complice di genocidio e abbia veramente incitato ad occupare le scuole, se mi si contesta la necessità di fare chiarezza su un punto dirimente per quanto riguarda la correttezza della formazione dei nostri giovani, vuol dire che non si ha maturità democratica». Così il ministro dell’Istruzione e del Merito Giuseppe Valditara, intervenendo a Roma ad Atreju è tornato sul caso delle ispezioni inviate in alcune scuole in Toscana dove ha tenuto degli incontri la relatrice speciale dell’Onu per i territori palestinesi occupati Francesca Albanese. «Il ministro - ha proseguito - non si lascia intimidire da nessuno, ha il dovere di far sì che la legge, la Costituzione, il pluralismo vengano rispettati e nelle scuole non si faccia propaganda o indottrinamento. Dopodichè, io non parto con alcun pregiudizio, accerteranno gli ispettori e vedranno se eventualmente si sono violate alcune regole e se c’è una responsabilità degli organi scolastici».