Meloni: 'Taxes down for the middle class. Accused of hatred by those celebrating Kirk's murder'. Schlein: she puts the load

Onwards with reforms, from the premierate to the separation of the careers of magistrates. And on with tax cuts for the middle class. All of this stigmatising, after the murder in the USA of the conservative politician Charlie Kirk, the climate of "hatred and political violence that are dramatically returning as a reality" also in Italy. After the standing ovation at the Rimini Meeting of Communion and Liberation, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wanted to bring her greetings to the party of the Udc, the Catholic party that leads the fourth leg of the coalition. "I wanted to be here," she said, "to thank the UCD for its serious and proactive work in support of the government's action and to realise the centre-right programme. But 'I do not want to go after the Catholics, nor have I become a Christian Democrat 2.0, as I enjoyed listening to,' the Prime Minister shielded herself.

At the centre of the speech were constitutional reforms and the manoeuvre. "We want to carry out the reforms that Italy has always been waiting for, to unhinge those rents of position that prevent our best energies from unleashing their potential, to build a vision of development, of growth, of the medium to long term, to put Italy back in the place it deserves on the international chessboard," Meloni stressed. Therefore, "we will go ahead," she assured, "on the separation of the careers of magistrates and on the reform of the Csm (on Tuesday 16 the text returns to the Chamber for the third reading, ed.), because we want to break the current system that has humiliated the judiciary and make justice fairer for citizens. And forward with the premierate because 'we want to file away the season of technical, rainbow governments that pass over the heads of citizens. Citizens demand political, stable governments, and we want to respond to this demand with the reform of the premierate, which is necessary to strengthen democracy and the economy. We are seeing how stability makes a difference, only a stable government can have vision'.

He then reiterated the intervention in the budget law in favour of the middle class. 'We have stopped throwing citizens' money out of the window, despite the debts to pay that our predecessors left us we have not raised taxes but lowered them. And we want to continue in this direction as you know now by concentrating with the next budget law on the middle class,' Meloni punctuated.

But the Prime Minister also claimed the results achieved in the three years of government with 'Italy once again becoming a protagonist at the international level' that 'is stable at the political level, clear in its positioning, courageous in its choices, solid at the economic and financial level'. The macroeconomic data, the GDP growth, the employment figures, more than a million jobs created in a thousand days, the new-found confidence of investors, of the markets," the Prime Minister remarked. "They said that with the centre-right in government, particularly with Meloni as Prime Minister, Italy would go into default. And things,' Meloni stressed, 'have gone slightly differently because the truth is that the left has not got a forecast right for some decades. Today we are in fact the anchor of stability in Europe and clearly we are proud of this, these results are not the fruit of chance but of the choices we have made'. But there is still 'a lot to be done in the two years that separate us from the end of the legislature on the competitiveness of companies, on bureaucratisation, on merit, on the cost of energy, on security, on housing'. The goal is to move forward united 'jumping over obstacles, leaving behind those who would like to nail this nation to its problems as always'.

An extensive passage of the speech was then dedicated to the reactions in the political world to the murder of the Republican and pro-Trump political activist Charlie Kirk in the US. "Hatred and political violence are dramatically becoming a reality again, bringing many knots to the boil," denounced Meloni, who recalled that she comes "from a political community that has often been accused of spreading hatred, look at that from the same ones who celebrate and justify the intentional murder of a boy who was guilty of courageously defending his ideas." Hence the lunge: 'I believe the time has come to hold the Italian left accountable for this continuous minimisation or even justification of criminalisation, of violence against those who do not think like them. Because the climate even here in Italy is becoming unsustainable and it is time to denounce it, and it is time to say clearly that these theses are unpresentable, dangerous, irresponsible and antithetical to any embryo of democracy'.