Meloni: Delmastro light, citizens will assess whether there was a little hand. Schlein: the premier should have asked for her resignation
'We know that the government is usually impaled by its majority, not by the opposition. And this majority is solid," the Prime Minister told La7
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Last skirmishes before the vote on the referendum on justice. "Delmastro has been light, but from here to say he is conniving... If there was a little hand saying 'let's bring out the worst thing about the government in the last days of the referendum campaign', the Italians will judge. But it has nothing to do with the referendum on justice." This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the special edition of La7 TV news 'Yes or No' dedicated to the referendum on justice.
Schlein: Delmastro lied, Meloni should have demanded resignation
Quite different is the reading of the episode offered by the Pd Elly Schlein secretary, who intervened shortly afterwards. "Giorgia Meloni should have demanded Delmastro's resignation and instead, turning to me, she said: 'I learned this from the newspapers and this should make us reflect on a certain way of doing journalism. I think this should make us reflect rather on his way of choosing the undersecretaries of justice. Delmastro lied about this affair. From the photos that have emerged, it appears that he continued to frequent that club even after the conviction on appeal of this gentleman convicted of being a front man for the Sienese clan. He set up a company with the 18-year-old daughter of a man who had already been investigated for the mafia and was later convicted. Is it possible for an undersecretary of justice to fund companies without knowing with whom he is founding them?'.
Premier: on the referendum the left threw in the towel, we had some foul reactions
"It certainly wasn't a good election campaign also because there was this attempt to throw in the towel, as they say in Rome, to single out the enemy" and it is this "that convinced me to throw myself into this issue, aware that there would be the accusation of politicisation" because I wanted to explain in substance, the tones were negative especially on the part of the left, "there was some foul reaction even in our own half of the field and so overall it wasn't a good election campaign". So again the premier Giorgia Meloni.
"Opposition wanted non-reform, right to stop amendments"
The justice reform "is a constitutional law that has gone through four parliamentary passages", those of the opposition were "amendments that aimed to distort the reform so as to make it a non-reform, so I think it was right to have rejected the opposition's amendments," said the Prime Minister in response to the question on the fact that the reform had not been changed in relation to the text approved by the Cdm.
"No backlash for government, solid majority"
'Frankly,' he said, 'I do not see any political backlash regardless of how the referendum goes, especially for the government because we know that the government is usually impeached by its majority, not by the opposition. And this majority is solid.
