«We did not share several choices, we do not share the recent proposals of the Israeli government and we did not fail to tell our interlocutors , aware as we are that it was not Israel that started the hostilities and that there was a plan behind the inhuman attacks by Hamas and the cruelty inflicted on the hostages».
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this during Prime Minister's Question Time in the Chamber, responding to Avs MP Angelo Bonelli. "In recent months I have spoken to Prime Minister Netanyahu on several occasions, they have often been difficult conversations in which I have always called for the urgency of finding a way to end hostilities and respect international law and international humanitarian law. A request that I renew today, in the face of a humanitarian situation in Gaza that I have no difficulty in defining as increasingly dramatic and unjustifiable ."
"I am convinced, based on the numerous conversations I have had in recent months with the leaders of the region," she continues, "that we can work on a regional political and security framework capable of putting an end to the conflict, paving the way for a process that leads to the two-state solution, and I remain convinced that to do so we must start from the reconstruction plan proposed by the Arab countries. It is towards this objective that the government continues to commit itself, working with the leaders of the region, with our European partners, with the United States. We will do so by maintaining an open, frank, and if necessary even critical dialogue with everyone. And this is precisely why it is not the intention of the Italian government to recall the Italian ambassador to Israel ."
Ghost Magi
While the leader of the Lega Riccardo Molinari was speaking, Riccardo Magi of Più Europa entered the Chamber dressed as a ghost . The president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana immediately asked for the expulsion of the deputy, who was carried away on the shoulders of the Montecitorio ushers. "Do you remember - Magi shouted to the Prime Minister as he was being carried away - President Meloni when she accused governments of silencing referendums, of hindering participation. Do you remember? It was 2016 and 2022 ". A reference to the pro-abstention campaign carried out by the majority on the referendums on work and citizenship next 8 and 9 June.
The clash with Conte and Schlein
On the RearmEu plan, the clash with former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has erupted: " Honorable Conte, I am very fascinated by your overwhelming anti-militarist passion that no one had the opportunity to appreciate when you were Prime Minister, I don't remember you with the same line when as Prime Minister you signed in the midst of Covid and with a national health fund with 18 billion less than today the increase in military spending", Meloni responded to a question from the M5S leader. " He is not the same person - she adds - he must have been one of the many other Giuseppis we have seen in recent years ".
There is a brawl over healthcare with Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein: "I don't know how long it's been since she went to a hospital," Schlein said. " You want healthcare that fits people's wallets," and this is a "real Meloni tax, getting treatment has become a luxury," and "there are those who make money with private clinics." "For her, if something doesn't work, it's always someone else's fault," but "after three years there are no excuses, it's her fault and Italians are not fools," she added.
"Colleague Schlein - Meloni replied - it is always complex to deal with someone who is forced to lie to make propaganda but in some ways it is also good news, I will gladly respond with some numbers and some facts that from my point of view are quite explicit. I repeat that the National Health Fund is at the highest level ever, when we took office in 2022 that fund was 126 billion, 10 billion less than now. And the Democratic Party when it was in government never dreamed of making increases like the one we have done in these two years".
(Online Union)