Meloni is the leader in all constituencies. 'This Italy that changes today can change Europe'

For Meloni it is 'suicidal idiocy' to push electric cars without considering that 'electrics are produced' in countries that 'do not even remotely respect the environmental constraints of our companies'. The battle will continue into the future. 'We have been fighting and intend to continue to do so against ideological follies such as that of no longer producing diesel and petrol cars in 2023 no one denies that electric is part of the solution for the decarbonisation of transport, I deny that it can be the only one because to claim the opposite is simply idiocy'.

As for the Pnrr, 'we are the nation furthest ahead in the EU in terms of rates and projects'. The premier's claim starts from the observation that 'we are the Italy from which other governments ask for help in understanding how EU funds are best spent. Another bet won by us and lost by the owls'.

"We fought against the green houses directive, a badly thought-out directive, without taking any specificity into account as if making a wooden house in the Finnish tundra efficient was the same thing as making a stone house in a Sicilian village efficient". According to the premier, 'Only bureaucrats locked in a glass palace can imagine such a thing. We have managed to achieve very important results, such as the elimination of the obligation to advance one energy class to achieve in a few years, a blow that would have cost on average between 40 and 70 thousand euro per home. For the time being we have avoided this, now every government will have two years to prepare a national plan to reduce polluting emissions from buildings. And it is two years that we intend to use to try to change a regulation that is still very, very unbalanced and that to be reasonable must first answer a banal question: who pays? Because that is the question that no one has answered so far, and they have not answered it because unfortunately the answer was: the citizens'.

Close on the heels of Premier Meloni's choice, Action leader, Carlo Calenda, broke the hesitations and also stood as a candidate in all constituencies. "Over the past months I have repeatedly publicly urged all political leaders to sign an agreement not to run for the European elections. Schlein and Tajani have already chosen the path of direct candidacy. But the Council President's entry into the field and her anti-European and sovereignist platform completely change the scenario. We must oppose by all means Giorgia Meloni's project of 'a small Italy in a small Europe'," Calenda wrote in a note. "It is necessary to respond to this anti-European challenge by getting directly involved. After consulting with the party executive, Elena Bonetti and I have decided to accept the challenge and run together in all the constituencies to give even more strength to the team of extraordinary quality that we have been fielding for weeks, with a clear and clear programme and the obligation for all candidates to join the Renew group. We are Europeans and we will prove it on 8 and 9 June,' he concludes.

A video conference walking down the street, and with his daughter. This is how League leader Matteo Salvini spoke at the FdI programme conference, invited by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with the other centre-right leaders, all in attendance. 'I'm not in attendance but it's as if I were there,' the deputy premier began, 'I put down my agenda until 9 June but it was the last Sunday I could dedicate to my daughter who had a four-day fever and my son who has a game today. Salvini thanked the premier. 'For me it is an honour to accompany as vice-premier,' Salvini then continued, recalling that 'today is the day' of Meloni, 'and I tell you that we will never give up, and for me we will go on not just five years, but ten. Long live Italy and this centre-right that no one will ever question'.

'No, I'm not running. And I'm saying it now: I won't even run for any by-elections in Rome or Lazio'. This was announced by Arianna Meloni, head of the membership and political secretariat of Fratelli d'Italia, in an interview with Il Messaggero. 'Politics can be done on different levels. And then I am like that, a shy one'. The premier's sister, in Pescara for FdI's programme conference, also talks about her role in the party: 'I like to listen, to talk to everyone, when necessary yes, even to act as peacekeeper'. Inside FdI, Meloni explains, 'I try to put order, make everyone respect the rules, otherwise the party is not a party, it becomes a casbah'.