Giorgia Meloni spoke before the Lower House of the Italian Parliament before the vote of confidence required by the new governments and criticized the European Union for not always being prepared for challenges, in particular the dramatic energy crisis that now threatens homes and businesses.
However, he promised that his government, with its allies on the right and centre-right, would it will remain loyal to the EU agreements while working for changes to some of them, including currency stability.
It may interest you: Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy after a career spanning more than three decades
“Asking these questions does not mean being an enemy but a practical person,” Meloni said in a 70-minute speech. Earlier in his speech, he bristled at critics, including those from foreign governments, who said they would be watching Italy’s first far-right government since the end of World War II.
Such attitudes are equivalent to “a lack of respect for the Italian people, who do not need lessons”, Meloni said. The 10-year-old Prime Minister’s Brothers of Italy party won the most votes in last month’s parliamentary elections, winning 26% of the votes cast.
Together with his main allies, the League’s anti-immigrant leader Matteo Salvini and former Conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Meloni’s coalition may garner enough support in both houses of Parliament to win the votes of confidence and get down to work to govern.
In her election campaign, Meloni, 45, did not make much of a fuss about becoming Italy’s first female prime minister. But one of her first comments before the Lower Chamber of Deputies expressed her astonishment at this achievement.
“I am the first woman to lead this nation,” Meloni said, acknowledging the weight of that on her when she thinks about it. She dedicated the following words of hers to “all the women who have trouble asserting themselves” in the workplace and who make daily sacrifices to balance work and family roles.
Meloni then expressed her determination to “break the heavy glass ceiling that is over their heads”. She went on to read a litany of names of women in Italy who have achieved achievements, including a communist politician who was the first woman to be elected president of the Chamber of Deputies, an astronaut, and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist among others.
The Prime Minister also confirmed her campaign promise to support Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion. He sought to allay critics’ fears that his government, with its emphasis on God and traditional families, would undo Italy’s abortion rights law, saying his center-right government “will never limit the freedom of citizens.”
Instead, he said, to boost Italy’s birthrate, one of the lowest in the world, his government aims to establish free nurseries and daycare centers that will remain open during business and store hours, and “rewarding companies that facilitate women’s reconciliation.” roles” at work and at home.
It may interest you: Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy after a career spanning more than three decades
Meloni has been persecuted for years by critics who say she has failed to condemn fascism unambiguously. Brothers of Italy, which she co-founded in 2012, has its roots in a far-right party founded by those nostalgic for dictator Benito Mussolini.
In his speech, he said that “he never felt sympathy for anti-democratic regimes” and denounced Mussolini’s racist laws of 1938, which persecuted Italy’s small Jewish community as a “low point of Italian history”.
With AP information
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