She defends the Albania model, which "will not be dismantled" by "unreasonable" sentences or by the "left". She says she is "at peace with her conscience", rather "aggressive", because in two years in government she could not "work harder". She defends the maneuver, attacked by "those of the desks on wheels and the Superbonus". And she still defends, even if a little more tepidly, Alessandro Giuli's chief of staff, Francesco Spano , victim of the "double standards" that are applied "to those who work with the right" .

Giorgia Meloni, interviewed in detail at the "Il Tempo" party by director Tommaso Cerno, talks for a good half hour about the government, especially its policies on migrants, which risk being blocked by the "unreasonable" sentence of the Rome court that uses Albania in an "instrumental" way.

Which will continue because "I will not allow a solution that we have identified in full compliance with Italian and European law to be dismantled because there is a part of politics that does not agree". The halt to detentions, the prime minister underlines, had begun well before: "It is from Cutro that we seek solutions" to the immigration issue. A commitment "made with the Italians" who voted but when elections veer to the right "we need to correct the people's choices". With a certain "indifference to the popular vote".

More than "conspiracies", says Meloni. "I have never spoken of a conspiracy". But of course, is the prime minister's conviction, there are those "double standards" that move certain worlds, a concept expressed several times since the beginning of the legislature . Meloni gets heated when she once again brands as "not normal" the request of the European socialists, led by the Democratic Party, for an infringement procedure for Italy precisely for the agreement with Albania. "They ask - she reiterates - to punish the Italians for not having voted as they wanted". But the agreement, despite the "obstacles" that were expected in any case, "will work", promises the prime minister, who also claims the "keeping of the accounts" with the Budget law, just transmitted to the Chamber. There are no "tax increases", there are record funds for healthcare and if the increases in minimum pensions are minimal, the blame lies with the legacy of the Superbonus "another 38 billion in 2025". Otherwise, pensioners on the minimum pension could be given "20 thousand euros more".

The prime minister is however pressed on the case of the day, the resignation of the cabinet chief of the Minister of Culture. A story, she says, that she has not followed in detail. But "I read in the agencies that there is a conflict of interest between the cabinet chief and another person who dates back to the Maxxi, to the time of Giovanna Melandri", Meloni attacks, specifying that she did not speak about it with Alessandro Giuli either before the appointment or after Spano's step back. Of course, she admits, she had received complaints from her own party about Spano's appointment, complaints sent back to the minister himself. It is he, the prime minister's reasoning, who "makes the appointments and must take responsibility for what he does".

(Unioneonline/D)

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