Meloni attacks the pro Draghi mayors. M5S Assembly, Conte's line prevails

Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini "confirm that the possibility of further governing with the 5 stars is ruled out due to their incompetence and unreliability". We read it in a joint note from the president of Forza Italia and the secretary of the League.

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05.05 pm - M5S Assembly, the Conte line prevails

So far, according to what is learned, in the joint assembly of parliamentarians of the M5s, out of over sixty interventions, there have been limited to fifteen, those in disagreement with the line of the Movement announced yesterday by the leader Giuseppe Conti. "Few", admits a deputy who is part of the governist wing of the party, according to which it would be appropriate to vote the confidence in Prime Minister Mario Draghi if he were to submit to a review in Parliament. Pending the resumption of work at 6 pm, according to sources who participated in the assembly, so far the large majority of the elected participants have expressed themselves in favor of Conte's line.

Among those who criticized it, in addition to Minister Federico D'Incà, what we learn are Federica Dieni, Giulia Grillo, Luca Sut, Azzurra Cancelleri, Rosalba Cimino, Vita Martinciglio, Soave Alemanno, Diego De Lorenzis, Niccolò Invidia, Elisabetta Maria Barbuto, Elisa Tripodi, Gabriele Lorenzoni and Celeste D'Arrando. From the tenor of other interventions it also emerges that there is a part of undecided.

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3.30 pm - Salvini-Berlusconi meeting at Villa Certosa

Meeting between Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi in Sardinia. According to what is learned, the secretary of the League is at Villa Certosa by the leader of Forza Italia. The two spoke on the phone yesterday to analyze the current government crisis, confirming "full harmony".

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1.00 pm - D'Incà at the M5s assembly: "We need a truce between Conte and Draghi"

In his speech to the assembly of parliamentarians of the M5s, according to what is learned, the minister Federico D'Incà asked for a truce between Giuseppe Conte and Mario Draghi, so as not to jeopardize the implementation of the reforms connected to the PNRR and related projects, for the good of the country. D'Incà also referred to the difficulties that would exist in the progressive field in the event of early voting.

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12.30 - Lega: "Draghi is right, the pact of trust is over"

Matteo Salvini will take stock with the leaders of the League again this afternoon. The League, party sources explain, is increasingly disconcerted by the controversy between the Democratic Party and the 5 Stars, also in light of the recent statements by Giuseppe Conte (with the ultimatum to Prime Minister Draghi) and by the dem Andrea Marcucci according to whom "the alliance with M5S it's over ". Given the situation, according to Salvini's party, what was declared Thursday by the Prime Minister according to which "the pact of trust underlying the government's action has failed".

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11 am - Delrio: "The country needs Dragons"

"This political crisis risks paying the poorest". The former minister Graziano Delrio (Pd) says this in an interview with Corriere della Sera. A few months after the expiry of the legislature "and after Draghi shares priorities such as minimum wages and social agenda, it seems to me inexplicable and unjustifiable to screw everything up" he explains. "The president's work has been excellent, thanks also to his prestige, Italy has begun to recover - he adds -. The pandemic is not over and we have to face the emergencies caused by the war in Ukraine. because Italy's international credibility is at stake. This country needs Dragons ".

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9.50 am - Gelmini: "The majority does not give conditions to Draghi"

The parties "that had a sense of responsibility to give birth to this government should not set conditions but ensure loyal support to the end". Mariastella Gelmini, minister for regional affairs and autonomies and head of delegation of Forza Italia, says this in an interview with La Repubblica, commenting on the request of her party and the Lega to continue with the Draghi government but without the 5S.

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8.40 am - Di Maio: "Conte is carrying out a political revenge"

If things remain as they are today "Mario Draghi will resign in front of Parliament on Wednesday. And between Thursday and Friday, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will dissolve the Chambers". Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says in interviews in La Stampa and Il Messaggero: "Whoever is causing the crisis is giving the country to the far right. In addition, I am sure that Conte is carrying out a political revenge by knocking out Draghi: again there is no peace for not being able to stay at Palazzo Chigi ".

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7.20 - Salvini: "We do not participate in the theater"

"We will do what Italy needs and we are not willing to participate in the theater these days in which the puppets Conte and Di Maio say one thing in the morning and one in the evening". Lega leader Matteo Salvini said this. "We have been loyal to the Draghi government for a year and a half, but I am loyal to the parties that are loyal to me," he added.

(Unioneonline)