Gianluigi Paragone looks at Giorgia Meloni and sees Mario Draghi. One or the other is almost the same, in the eyes of the journalist who founded Italexit (and who will present the Sardinian candidates tomorrow in Cagliari): «Meloni is trying to gain accreditation in European and international finance circles. In Cernobbio he made it clear that he will go ahead with the Draghi agenda, the Colao plan and all that the EU requires ».

Yet she was the only real opposition to Draghi.

“But now he wants to make himself credible on the financial markets. But sovereignty belongs to the people, not to the markets. It is the same mistake made by others: to seek the approval of certain circles to be safer in case she were to make the premier. And like others, it will burn. "

So, if he is prime minister, will you oppose?

"Surely. Giorgia Meloni is just a fiction of this electoral campaign, she is not a real alternative ».

Anyway better than other possible governments, for you?

“No, it doesn't really make a difference, they're all the same. If you change the government but the policy remains the same, it is useless. I want to understand how they plan to repair a real economy made up of businesses that are closing down ».

What do you propose?

«The central theme, even in Sardinia, is work and the possibility of doing business. The whole paradigm must change: we help companies, not multinationals. Let's do the math: today a company has taxes, if it has arrears it has to manage the tax bills, then the trouble with the banks, the cost of labor ... ".

On the other hand, how should one act against expensive energy?

«It's not just a problem of expensive energy: every month you don't know what your bill will be the next month, because it doesn't depend on your consumption but on the price of gas. I would like to remind you that the government is still fully operational; and with an emergency like this the limit of ordinary administration is not valid ».

What can the government do?

«He should have already operated the deficit lever to help families and small businesses. If not, many companies will close within the year and the state will have lost tax revenues and workers to protect. If you are loyal to Europe's accounting fanaticism, then you pay for it ».

And on the price of gas?

«First of all we need a fight against speculators. If you assume a price cap and do not put it immediately after, you can only disturb the markets and speculators find themselves in their natural habitat. Among the speculations to be attacked is that of Eni: a State subsidiary that in six months made 700% of profits and 7 billion more profits ”.

So you agree with the extra profit tax?

"In the Eni case, given that the Ministry of Economy has a share in the company, Minister Franco should order to spread them on all Italians".

The theme is related to war. What do you think on this point?

«That sanctions are useless. The Russian economy is not suffering. We do because we lack gas. And if you think about a price ceiling, Putin closes the Nord Stream. It goes without saying how we will replace Russian gas in a year: I have to pay my bills now. In the tug-of-war with Russia, we lose: we must be peacemakers, mediators, so much so that there will not be Zelensky's victory and Putin's total defeat ”.

But the aggressor in this affair is Putin himself.

“Yes, but it is no longer the time to catalog the good and the bad. Also because we should think about who created the conditions for this war. Let's think about what to do in practice ».

They criticize you for welcoming members of the far right: how do you reply?

«I cannot make an anti-system campaign and then fear the rhetoric of the system aimed at erasing the responsibilities of multinational and financial power: which is much more fascist than Casapound or who has followed a path starting from the right. True fascism today is a white fascism, made up of markets, of discrimination. If in the square with us there were also girls and boys who come from Casapound, it is not a problem for us. Have you seen how those of the Democratic Party speak? “On my knees or I'll shoot him” one of them said ».

However, the agreement with Pino Cabras's Alternativa was broken on this issue.

“I'm sorry for Cabras, he has proved himself a victim of mainstream grammar: he thinks he's fighting the system, but he's been trapped inside. It doesn't concern me anymore. Carlotta Chiaraluce has an immaculate criminal record: did she have an experience in Casapound? But legitimized by the vote. We also have Raffaella Regoli, who has dreadlock hair and comes from the far left ».

You were elected with the M5S: what relationship do you have with them now?

"Nobody. I have no respect for Conte, the man who saved the Benettons after Ponte Morandi, he invented Speranza, the Cts, Arcuri commissioner for everything, the benches on wheels. He will reveal himself for what he is, a chameleon-like man who tried to be Count ter by picking up whatever. "

Then make an identikit of your typical voter. In your opinion, who will vote for you?

«Who still believes that David can defeat Goliath. Every vote in Italexit is a pebble for David's sling. Exceeding 3% is the minimum goal, then we will have to structure ourselves. I believe in it: where there is injustice, discrimination, despair, there will be a David with his sling and his stones ».

Giuseppe Meloni

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