" Rabid extremists who have no proposals or arguments on the merits and only know how to throw mud at their opponents ." Giorgia Meloni's speech begins with a harsh attack on the opposition, closing the event in support of Paolo Truzzu in view of the regional elections on Sunday at a packed Cagliari Fair (3,500 in attendance).
To Paolo «I want to tell him not to worry about the mud they have tried and will try to throw at him: we have all been there, but I think it is always good news. It demonstrates the nervousness of parties without an identity, proposals to make, answers to give and without the management of power that has kept them standing for a long time ."
The Prime Minister claimed responsibility for the actions of her Government and attacked Conte's measures, in particular the citizen's income and the superbonus which "allowed the rich to renovate their second homes and cost us 140 billion euros" . «Italy today – he said – has the highest employment rate, driven by the growth of female employment. We stopped using money to pay those who didn't work, and we gave it to companies to hire on permanent contracts . The left gave the money to the richest, to those who were better off, we gave it to families and to those in difficulty."
Then, moving on to Sardinia, he joked about the Pd-M5s "wide field" experiment . «We are not together out of compulsion, we have been together for 30 years, our vision is compatible. And we don't come to Sardinia to do the wide field experiment. But what is it? Larger than a football field? Sardinians don't deserve to be guinea pigs in an experiment to bring together people who don't even look at each other in Rome and here pretend to love each other . We have already seen the broad field: when you put together those who don't have a common vision and can barely tolerate each other, the results are those of Conte 2".
Meloni spoke of the Einstein Telescope, which «means bringing Europe's eye on the cosmos to the center of Sardinia, which means jobs, the best researchers, innovation». And he announced: " I want to bring a university dedicated to the Mediterranean to Sardinia ."
On Truzzu: «Those who have placed their friends in government even in defiance of more deserving people tend to judge others based on their behavior, but in our area it doesn't work like that. I have known Paolo Truzzu for 20 years and I know him because he was born and raised in political militancy . He didn't start getting involved in politics when he became a parliamentarian, because it's easy to get passionate when you already get a salary, much more difficult to do so when politics takes much more from you than it gives you. Time for study, for what you would love to do. Of course I've known Truzzu for 20 years, and I'm proud of it. The whole process has been done, and I want people who know what they're talking about ."
At the end everyone was back on stage to sing the Italian anthem and take a group photo.
PAOLO TRUZZU
Fifteen minutes of speech for Truzzu who talked about his electoral campaign, the program and took a few pebbles off his shoe after Alessandra Todde's Campo Largo attacks. One hundred and fifty communities visited in less than a month. «These elections are important because the future of Sardinia is at stake. The choice is between us and those who, for party interests and logics of power, wanted to make Sardinia a guinea pig. We are not the guinea pig of the Democratic Party and the M5s, an experiment already broken before starting so much so that they split ». Therefore, « the choice is between us and those who have chained Sardinia like Soru, or those like Todde who want to condemn the island to a future of welfare and have no ideas , and the only thing they have done is attack the centre-right, Truzzu and the city of Cagliari." Today, he concluded, "the choice is between those who put Sardinia first and those who have opened the door to the multinationals who are invading the territory with renewables." The irony about construction sites: " We will have a construction site in every municipality, so it's not just the people of Cagliari who will complain, because behind a construction site there is development ."
MATTEO SALVINI
The deputy prime minister, minister of infrastructure and leader of the Northern League: «Sardinia votes on Sunday and by all accounts Truzzu wins» . Then he talks about roads: " We are opening construction sites that haven't been seen for many years , because even those who live in Cagliari and Sassari have the right to travel safely." Railways: «The environment is helped by investing in railways, not by banning petrol and diesel cars. There is only one capital in Italy not connected to the railway network, coincidentally it is located in Sardinia. The project to connect Nuoro to the Sardinian railway network arrives in September ." Ports and airports: «We are investing 215 million to improve the Sardinian ports, 40 to fix the airports of Cagliari and Olbia. And regarding airports, I promise you that there will never be a monopoly on the skin of the Sardinians ."
«Sunday's – underlines the deputy prime minister – is a referendum between the value of work and the negative value of not working, of those who pay you to stay at home ». Salvini concludes with a "thank you Christian Solinas" and "good work to Paolo Truzzu" and claims the unity of the coalition: "The more they try to make us argue, the more Giorgia Meloni and I move forward as one person, united."
ANTONIO TAJANI
The second to last to speak before the prime minister is the secretary of Forza Italia, deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani : «We are all united, I'm sorry for the left and for the left-wing newspapers, but we get along lovingly . And we will also get along well to win the regional elections in the Marche, in Abruzzo, in the other regions and also in Europe. Nobody is afraid of us because we are credible and responsible. We are working to solve Sardinia's problems, this region deserves even more to be done. I thank Solinas for the work done, now let's move forward with Paolo Truzzu ."
CHRISTIAN SOLINAS
Several speeches preceded that of the presidential candidate and the big names. When Christian Solinas' moment came, the presenter recalled the governor's "step aside" in favor of Truzzu: «This political formula deserves continuity, it deserves that the many actions begun in the most complex legislature of the Region be brought to completion , decimated by Covid and wars. We are the Region that has managed Covid best, we have closed the most important agreement on revenues ever signed by the Sardinia Region ", the words of Solinas, who claims his work at the helm of the Region, " well governed by the centre-right coalition in these five years ". Now, «we need to carry forward our projects. I am convinced that all together, with Paolo and the centre-right coalition, we will achieve this objective."
THE CENTRISTS
After the outgoing president's speech, the moment came for Maurizio Lupi, who asked for "applause for Solinas" and for the "courage" he had in taking a "step back in the name of a greater interest, to take a step forward together » . Then Lorenzo Cesa (UDC) : «Truzzu is a great opportunity for Sardinia, we as a coalition will stand by him day after day. Todde does not end the electoral campaign with Schlein and Conte because the leaders of the Pd and M5s do not speak to each other, they argue about everything in Parliament. What answers can they give to Sardinia? ».
THE OTHERS
Michele Cossa explained that " the presence of the prime minister and vice prime ministers today is important: we need the government to implement insularity starting from territorial continuity and we will need the government when we are in Europe to deal with fundamental issues for Sardinia". Gianfranco Rotondi (Dc) opened, Mimmo Solina (Alleanza Sardegna) and Stefano Tunis (Sardinia al Centro 20Venti) also spoke.
(Unioneonline)
Contributions from Roberto Murgia and Giuseppe Meloni