Meloni at the House test. Schlein on the attack on healthcare, Conte on rearmament

Elly Schlein continues to beat on health care while Giuseppe Conte focuses on rearmament. Avs demands an answer on Gaza while Italia Viva wants to know what economic reforms the government is considering. Action focuses on competitiveness between strategies on automotive and energy, including nuclear power. These are the main topics in the 'carnet' of questions to Giorgia Meloni at premier time in Montecitorio, scheduled for today at 4pm (after the one in the Senate last 7 May).

The PD asks the government 'what urgent measures it intends to take so that the National Health Service is not dismantled and that everyone is guaranteed the right to health as enshrined in Article 32 of our Constitution'. This is the content of the PD question to Giorgia Meloni, signed among others by the secretary Elly Schlein and the group leader Chiara Braga. According to the PD, 'the National Health Service is close to the point of no return: endless waiting lists, staff at the exhaustion subjected to exhausting shifts and fleeing to foreign countries and the private sector; 65,000 nurses and 30,000 doctors missing; growing territorial inequalities and an increase in health mobility between South and North'. "Despite this dramatic picture," it goes on to say, "health spending, according to the latest Dfp, remains stationary at 6.4 per cent of GDP, with a decreasing GDP until 2028, once again lower than other European countries, the OECD recommendations and far from the European average of 7.5 per cent of GDP. The PD recalls that in "September 2024 the Minister of Health announced an extraordinary recruitment plan of 30,000 doctors and nurses to deal with the pension hump and avert a blockade of the SSN, a plan that to date has only remained on paper: the decree on waiting lists approved by the government in May 2024 was devoid of new resources and highly punitive towards the regions that in fact contested it.

The Rearm Eu plan, on the other hand, will be the focus of Conte's question to Prime Minister Meloni: does Italy intend to support it or focus on a plan to boost the economy? The 5 Star Movement, with Giuseppe Conte and Riccardo Ricciardi in the lead, will ask the prime minister "for the purpose of recovering the founding values of the European Union, not to continue supporting the 'ReArm Europe/Readiness 2030' plan, and to promote instead a plan to relaunch and support investments that will foster competitiveness, the Union's long-term goals and policy priorities starting with health spending, support for the supply chain, employment, education, to make the Union's economy more fair, competitive, secure and sustainable'.

Avs questions Meloni on Gaza. "Faced with the horrors", the "starvation used as an instrument of war to annihilate a population", the question asks the Prime Minister whether, "following the Israeli government's announced plan for the occupation of the entire Gaza Strip", "today she intends to condemn Netanyahu's actions also by recalling the Italian ambassador to Israel".

Italia Viva also in the Chamber, as it did last week in the Senate with Matteo Renzi's question, continues to beat about the reforms. Or rather on the lack of reforms. "The latest data Istate the national macroeconomic picture describe an alarming situation" and "this context, strongly conditioned by the risk of a global trade war and the imposition of US duties on Italian products, is aggravated by the inertia of the government". Therefore, the question by Maria Elena Boschi reads, asking 'what are the three main reforms in the economic sphere that the government intends to adopt to tackle the current economic situation'.