The Prime Minister Conte obtained 156 yeses in the Senate. There were 140 no, 16 abstained. All the latest updates. The special of Start Magazine WHO WON AND WHO LOST IN THE BREAST. IL CORSIVO DI ARNESE Article updated at 10.40 pm on January 19, 2021
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte obtains 156 yes to the confidence in his communications in the Senate. There were 140 no, 16 abstained.
The vote was clear and took place by roll call.
The senator of Forza Italia-Udc, Maria Rosaria Rossi voted for confidence in the government, in the Senate chamber. Andrea Causin, senator of Forza Italia also voted for confidence in the government in the Senate chamber. Immediately after, there was a half applause and a voice shouting “Bravo”. Drago, Martelli and Giarrusso (Mixed) vote no.
No also of Paola Binetti, UDC senator, and of Minuto FI.
Matteo Renzi abstained in the vote of confidence in the Senate. Former minister Teresa Bellanova also abstained. WHO HAS WON AND WHO HAS LOST IN THE BREAST. ARNESE’S ITALIC
Causin and Rossi, the two FI senators who voted yes to trust, “are out of the party: voting with the government in this case is not a question of conscience”. This was stated by Antonio Tajani, vice president of Forza Italia, questioned on an ocean liner in the Senate. Tajani explains that he informed Silvio Berlusconi, together with the group leader Anna Maria Bernini.
In the explanations of vote, Minister Bellanova confirmed Italia Viva’s abstention. The Forza Italia No has been decided, reaffirmed by the group leader Anna Maria Bernini, as well as in the net majority the Yes of the Democratic Party announced by the group leader Ancrea Marcucci. “You are not looking for willing, responsible, but accomplices in order not to lose your seat”.
“If they have a few more votes and thanks to two of Forza Italia who voted like the 5s and the senators voted for life”. Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, on Tg1, while the final result is not yet known. “Tell me if this soup can bring Italy forward”, he adds: “We will turn to Mattarella: there is a government that does not have a majority in the Senate and stands with those who change shirts”.
“Compared to the premises and hopes of Conte and Casalino, things did not go as they hoped: I heard about dozens of managers but net of individual cases, on the other hand there are more, the center-right has maintained its compactness and it was not taken for granted. I spoke with Salvini, I will speak with Berlusconi. Now we have to ask for an interview with the Colle ”. Thus the leader of FdI, Giorgia Meloni at Rete 4.WHO HAS WON AND WHO HAS LOST IN THE BREAST. THE CORSIVE OF ARNESE
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“A topic touched by Senator Drago is the demographic decline: it is a very serious problem, and one of the most severe drops in recent years. Years ago the same thing happened in Germany. If we do not intervene now in time, we risk compromising the future of our children. Structured economic investments are needed, we must invest in the future and we cannot do it by creating a government crisis or trying to bring down a government. Among other things, the reform of the single monthly allowance for over 12 million children will start from July, a project initiated by the minister of Iv Bonetti ”. The premier, Giuseppe Conte, said this in the reply to the Senate.
“Many observations concerned our decline in GDP and the consistency of refreshments. It does not at all correspond to the truth that Italy is the first to fall stronger than GDP. Although we were first hit by the pandemic in the first three quarters of 2020, the trend decline in GDP was the same as in France, lower than Spain and the United Kingdom “, added Conte
” The rebound in the third quarter was among the most high in Europe, 15.9% – said the President of the Council -. The latest data push us to confirm a 9% decline for 2020, significantly lower than that expected in the summer and less than other European countries. It has been said that we have given less refreshments than other countries
It is an unfounded claim. Thanks to that safety net, GDP fell less than expected and the deficit was also offset ”.
The premier also spoke of covid and school: “An entire chapter of Recovery is dedicated to education – he underlined -. The epidemiological curve shows no signs of improving. It worries us but we will continue to do everything, the objective and the teaching in the presence “.
“Renzi has reconstructed the reasons for discussing trust today. However, it does not seem to me that when we dealt with concrete issues, a solution was not found. The Recovery Plan was not elaborated in some obscure cellar of Palazzo Chigi but in bilateral meetings with all the ministers, even those of IV – added Conte-. The draft, which you also wanted to destroy in the media, was the result of a first bilateral confrontation with the ministers ”.
“On Recovery we needed a confrontation, a collegial moment, because the problem of strategic choices remained, to bring out the policy, to give a vision. But the collegial confrontation can also be done with calm tones and loyal collaboration. The final effect – he noted – was blocking the Recovery for 40 days: we could have met and in about twenty days give the Parliament an updated version that has been improved also thanks to your contribution, but thanks to all the majority forces. and no one can claim the truth in the most profitable solutions for the country “.
“You felt that the control room was not acceptable – asked the Prime Minister controversially –
But when has it never been discussed
The result is that now we must hurry and the work is urgent, because the EU is also asking us to do it. When you choose the path of dialogue, and you know it, you have never found closed doors. At a certain point you chose the path of aggression and media attacks, you began to speak outside and not inside. We respect it but we can say that perhaps it is not the best choice in the interests of the country
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Then the reply to Renzi on the ‘armchairs’: “Armchairs
When I hear this word – he said – I am not ashamed to say that we are sitting in these armchairs. It is not important – I tell the citizens – to say ‘I’m not interested in an armchair’ but to be interested in sitting with discipline and honor ”. “I have often defended your requests – says the prime minister to Italia Viva – but at a certain point you took a different path, which is not that of loyal collaboration. Let’s say it in front of everyone “. “We were already working on the end-of-term pact. Immediately after the possible trust we will evaluate a topic we were already discussing: how to strengthen the government team ”Conte concludes the reply to the Senate. THE SINKING OF RENZI
Matteo Renzi goes to the premier’s attack in his speech in the Senate. “Mr. President, if you talk about an incomprehensible crisis, I will explain the reasons that brought our experience to an end – begins leader Iv -. It is not the most beautiful government in the world: we think there is a need for a stronger government, we do not think that the narrative of ‘other countries copy us’ will suffice. An institutional crisis has not yet been opened because you have not resigned ”.
“She was afraid to go up to Colle because she chose a castling which I hope will be useful for her but I think it will be harmful for the institutions”, added the former prime minister. “The institutional crisis is not open but Italy is experiencing a health and economic crisis”, explains Renzi, underlining how Italy is the country with the “highest number of Covid deaths in relation to the population”. “We have been asking for a change for months, it is not true that we have been irresponsible, we have been too patient. This is a “kairos”, an opportune moment, now or never we can have a discussion ”, he continued.
“He changed the third majority in three years, he ruled with Matteo Salvini – added Renzi -. Today I know that he is the reference point of progressivism and I am happy about it, but he signed the Salvini decrees and quota 100. Now he is about to reach the third different majority but spare us to say that the Biden agenda and his agenda after saying that Trump’s agenda was his agenda. If he goes to the UN general assembly and claims sovereignty, he cannot call himself anti-sovereign, if he goes to the school of Siri and calls himself populist, now he cannot call himself anti-populist. He cannot change his ideas to keep the chair “.
“When you are involved in politics – he said – you can also give up an armchair not an idea, I hope that it focuses on ideas and not the exchange of seats because the country does not deserve an unseemly market”.
The assembly of the senators of Iv with Matteo Renzi confirmed that the vote of confidence will be abstained.
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I also join in the name of the Government first of all in this memory of Senator Emanuele Macaluso who has been here for many years, has carried out activities from these benches and then for many other years as an esteemed journalist. I believe that even those who did not share his political ideas can agree that he was a great protagonist of Italian political life, of Italian cultural life.
At the beginning of this government experience, on 9 September 2019, I prefigured a clear political project for the country in this House.
I immediately specified that the program on which I was about to ask Parliament for confidence was not resolved, could not be resolved, in a mere listing of heterogeneous proposals, much less in a sterile sum of the positions taken by each of the political forces that would have supported the majority.
Even then I was aware that an alliance between political formations coming from different histories, traditions, experiences, cultures, which in addition had also opposed each other at times even bitterly in the more recent past, this alliance could only be born on the basis of two discriminating factors. fundamentals:
a) Not an extrinsic adhesion but a convinced anchoring to constitutional values (I mention only the primacy of the person, work, equality in the double formal and substantial role, environmental protection);
b) and then again the solid pro-European vocation of our country, in order to fully realize the national interest, in order to allow Italy to return to being a protagonist in the European scenario and to help the whole European Union recover its position of leadership in the current international geo-political context.
From the moment of the elaboration of the program to which I also dedicated myself together with the delegations of the majority political forces – because we all made sure, together, that the prospect of a broad and courageous reform plan was outlined.
I then affirmed that that political project would mark the beginning of a new – which we all hoped and still hope – decisive reforming season, aimed at building a more equitable and more inclusive society, capable of combining the primary objective of economic growth. , the relaunch and modernization with the essential requirements of sustainability, social and territorial cohesion, in the horizon of the full development of the human person.
Even today, after more than a year, looking at those twenty-nine programmatic points, I see that in the country project that we shared and outlined together, albeit in complex circumstances and conditions, there was vision.
There was a strong ideal push.
There was a clear investment of trust.
At the beginning of 2020 the conditions for the implementation of that project were unfortunately measured by the hurricane of the pandemic, it was a hurricane and it is a hurricane that has upset and is deeply upsetting our society, our habits of life, our collective destiny.
The pandemic has forced us to redefine our priorities, to rethink our development model, the very dynamics of our relationships.
We are facing an epochal challenge. We are measuring ourselves against the need to define the reconstructive lines of a society marked – again – it seems like a re-precipitating into the past, from primordial fears, more often known by generations of the past, fears linked to the risk of losing essential goods, such as life and health, and to return to feeling deeply fragile all.
Some of our deep-rooted certainties were suddenly questioned.
“Politics” itself has been forced to measure itself almost daily – perhaps as never before – with science and technology, in the difficulty of offering effective and rapid responses to an overwhelming health emergency and a severe economic recession.
Even our most consolidated legal knowledge has been severely questioned. By virtue of the state of emergency we were forced to be the first to introduce in the West with all the doubts and perplexities, the difficulties obviously soon followed by all the other countries – we had to introduce restrictive measures of the rights of the person, operating very delicate and laborious balances of constitutional principles and rights.
In these dramatic months, even in the face of unprecedented complexity, this majority has managed to demonstrate great responsibility, reaching – certainly even with difficulty – convergence of views and decisiveness of action, as was required, especially in the most critical passages.
We have cultivated a constant and close dialogue with all the institutional levels of our legal system, starting from the regional authorities up to the municipal authorities, in the awareness that only by practicing the principle of “loyal collaboration” in a tireless way would it be possible to pursue effective intervention strategies , considering – apart from the other – that the competences in the field of health management are remitted, in our legal system, primarily to the Regions.
Not only.
The experience of the pandemic has strengthened, in the political forces that have loyally supported the Government, the awareness of the value of dialogue and of the dialectical confrontation between even distant positions, an unavoidable prerequisite for making the most right choices, to make those syntheses superior to the superior collective interest, to take the fundamental decisions, which – due to the gravity of the hour – we could not escape.
We have always made the best choices
We have always made the right decisions
Each one on this point will express his own evaluations, we are in the field of the questionable. For my part, I can say that the Government has operated the delicate balances of the constitutional interests involved from time to time, with the utmost scruple and with the utmost attention, in the awareness of the consequences of immense importance that would be produced in the life of individuals and for the future of our community.
And if today to you who are here in this room and to the citizens who follow us from home I can speak on behalf of the whole government with their heads held high, not for the arrogance of those who believe they have never made a mistake, but for the awareness of those who, together with the entire government team, have committed all their physical and intellectual energies to offer the best possible protection to the national community.
In all these months a political debate has arisen, a political debate even of a certain depth concerning the role of politics.
We have all wondered about the role of politics.
Here you are.
I have already clearly pointed out that the dialogue between politics and science has become particularly intense, particularly dense, almost daily.
In reality, never as in this period has “politics” been called to fulfill its noblest mission, to make choices for the common good, some of which are of “tragic” significance.
The choice to protect health as a priority was “political”, and this was an intuition, a conviction that was immediately rooted in the government: not only because health is a fundamental right of the person and a primary interest of the community, but also in the awareness that only by protecting that primary asset could the country’s productive fabric be preserved and preserved.
All “political” was the choice to allocate – also by resorting to repeated and progressive budget variances – huge resources (more than 100 billion euros in terms of net debt) to support workers, businesses, families and fragile categories, with refreshments to some extent correlated with the losses suffered, although as I pointed out yesterday, I certainly do not mean that these refreshments are sufficient to fully compensate for the losses suffered.
And it is these interventions that have allowed us to be able to erect a belt of social and economic protection that has also been appreciated by illustrious economists, such as the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
Strongly “political”, again, was the determination with which the Government, first among European governments, asked, promoted an initiative, asked the European Union to respond to the crisis in a radically different way than in the past and to promoting expansionary policies, financed by common debt instruments, aimed at achieving shared strategies.
The historic agreement on the Next generation EU program, for the achievement of which Italy has had a propulsive and decisive role, spending itself at every level, in every location, formal and informal, not only allows us to have 209 billion euros, but it has impressed – and this is perhaps even more important in perspective – because it has given European politics an irreversible turning point, inaugurating a new course, capable of profoundly changing the paradigms of economic policies and the very face of the European Union.
And we will discuss this turning point, shortly, in the context of the conference on the future of Europe.
This is not the result, also eminently political, of the pro-European choice that represented one of the founding reasons of the Government alliance
Still “political” was the choice to accompany the emergency measures with structural interventions, capable – in the medium and long term – of generating virtuous effects.
Even in the most complex moments of the health and economic emergency we have never given up on laying the foundations for the relaunch of the country. And already with the budget law for 2020, I remember, the Government:
– introduced the cut of the tax wedge for the benefit of workers (later made structural), also think about the cut of the health superticket and the bonuses for nursery schools, bonuses buildings, the various interventions for environmental sustainability and urban regeneration and I am silent about other measures.
We immediately took up the challenge of transforming difficulties into opportunities.
Aware of the structural deficiencies of our country, we have laid the foundations for a decisive relaunch of growth by creating an environment more favorable to private investments, more inclined to research and innovation, more attentive to the construction and strengthening of skills. And if you examine, and we go with the mind to all the decree-laws issued during the first phases of the emergency and up to the last budget law, we will also find structural measures that can be read and interpreted in this perspective.
Think of the 21 billion, from 2020 to 2026, of available resources, in order to strengthen the hospital and territorial assistance network, enhance the medical-nursing staff, hire health personnel and invest in the training of doctors and nurses.
Think of the measures for schools and universities, we have further strengthened the interventions on staffing and digitization, investments in school and university buildings and in research, we have expanded the no-tax area for university students and school staff . And we already have the first results as regards the inversion in the number of matriculates, and an important signal, in the southern universities; it was always negative, and grew by 6.7%.
A major reform will start from next July: the single monthly allowance for each dependent child, up to 21 years of age, which will involve about 12.5 million children and teenagers. It is a measure that is part of a broader framework of interventions, aimed at relieving the economic pressure on families and reducing the burden of care that weighs in particular on women, also stimulating female employment.
We have introduced robust incentives for private investments, focusing in particular on: the green and digital transition, female and youth employment. Also in this perspective, the strengthening of the “Transition 4.0” package is included, with particular attention to investments in new digital technologies. The 110% super bonus for energy efficiency and anti-seismic upgrading of buildings must also be interpreted in this perspective.
We have zeroed the contributions for the recruitment of young people under the age of 35 throughout Italy for 3 years and we have introduced a total deduction for the recruitment of female workers.
We have introduced and fully implemented, until 2029, the taxation of advantage for all companies operating in the South. We are not southerners by intellectual vocation. To fill the gap that Italy does not run, because if the South does not run, we have always made it clear, Italy cannot run, so we have introduced a 30% cut in social security contributions for the first 5 years. And then again I would like to recall two measures to give the sense of interventions that look and give a vision for the country aimed at improving the competitiveness of our production fabric which is made up above all of small and medium-sized enterprises, but obviously also large enterprises struggle in this. conflict of crisis.
I refer to the PMI Patrimonio Fund, managed by Invitalia, which favors the capitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises that invest in their own relaunch, and the Intended Assets, managed by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, which will be able to contribute not only to support, but also to growth. of companies with turnover exceeding 50 million euros.
Also in view of the great challenge of the Recovery Plan, we wanted to clearly redefine the regulatory framework to support investments, in particular infrastructural ones.
The “simplifications” decree-law is aimed precisely at preparing the most suitable legal environment to give the possibility to these new measures, these new investments, to be effectively grounded. In fact, we have defined an accelerated path for the realization of public works and we have intervened to redefine, in a very shrewd way, the liability regime of the public administration with particular regard to the redefinition of tax liability, to the delimitation of the crime of abuse of office. We have created the conditions so that the officials and those in charge of public services can operate within a framework of greater legal certainty, according to a logic of greater efficiency.
And in this regard I often hear the objection raised, I must say the true and happened yesterday in the Chamber, according to which after a few months, the works, although considered priority under the simplification decree, would still be blocked because there would be no designation of the related Commissioners.
Apart from the fact that now the list of commissioners is there, but it is not like that. These works have never been blocked because article 2 of the simplification decree has been applied, which attributes special powers of the commissioners to the RUP, to sole project managers. And this is testified by the fact that in 2020, think, even in this difficult economic context, contracts, especially those of Anas and Rfi, have grown. We have reached a total of 43.3 billion compared to 39.4 in 2019.
We could not have achieved all this, and obviously it is a small anthology of the measures introduced, if it had not been for sharing, collaboration and responsibility in each political force, each political force.
Because you see when you suffer so much the country is more united, the sense of community is awakened. And the unity of the Government has also been strengthened, the tenor of our alliance has also been raised, the reasons for our being together have also strengthened.
In this perspective, the sense of responsibility shown also by the opposition political forces was fundamental, which – despite the clear differentiation, in the political dialectic of the different positions they have, contributed to tackling some critical passages with responsibility. I am thinking of the various occasions in which you have voted on the budget gap, you have made concrete and qualifying proposals, some of which have been warmly accepted and shared by the majority forces.
Also thanks to this dialogue with the opposition we have strengthened, on the occasion of the last budget law, the support measures, for example for self-employed workers and VAT numbers.
Precisely in the most critical moments in the history of a country we must rediscover the high reasons of politics, those that inspire the most authentic choices, the reasons that drive the commitment of those who believe that politics is essentially a service for the national community: not politics. as an exercise of power, neither politics as mere management of the contingent, but politics as thought and action oriented towards man, his needs, his expectations.
After going through this bend in human history that our generation happened to experience, nothing will be the same as before.
The government must live up to this lofty task.
Unfortunately, at the height of a few weeks of very bitter media attacks, I must say, sometimes even broken up, some exponents of Italia Viva anticipated and then confirmed that they want to get away from this common path.
This was followed by an abstention by the ministers of Italia Viva at the time of the approval, in the Council of Ministers, of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, with the substantive or main reason that does not include the resources of the Mes, which however, as you know and a financing instrument that has nothing to do with the Recovery Fund.
Finally, on 13 January a press conference was called during which the resignations of the ministers were then confirmed.
Thus a crisis has opened which today must find its own clarification here, in this institutional setting, according to the principles of transparency of the comparison and, if you allow me, linearity of action that has characterized my mandate up to now and which, moreover, are essential rules. of a parliamentary democracy.
It is a crisis that takes place in a crucial phase of our country, when the pandemic is still in full swing and many families are suffering from the loss of loved ones. And I confessed it yesterday, I confessed that I feel some discomfort. I am here today not to illustrate, if anything to discuss with you, the new support measures for citizens and businesses, not to illustrate and discuss with you the new version of the Recovery Plan, but to try to explain a crisis of which I imagine citizens. , but, I must confess, I myself see no plausible foundation.
Our energies should all and always be concentrated on urgent responses to the crisis gripping the country, thus appearing, in the eyes of the citizens, dissipated in controversial and often sterile counterpoints, completely incomprehensible to those who are faced with the fear of disease every day. , with the specter of impoverishment, with social and even psychological distress, with the anguish of the future.
I also said it yesterday, with this crisis, we risk losing touch with reality.
There was a real need to open a political crisis at this stage
I think not. And, in fact, the ministers and government allies who have been able to closely follow the events of recent weeks are witnesses to the fact that we have made every effort, with the utmost availability, to prevent this crisis from exploding.
Despite continuous claims, increasingly pressing criticism, continuous relaunches often and not casually concentrated on clearly divisive issues with respect to the various sensitivities of the majority forces. Hence the accusations against the entire government, but in particular also at my role, at the same time, of inaction and running too much, of centralizing powers and not having the ability to decide. I assure you that it is complicated, very complicated to govern in these conditions with those who continually plant mines on the common path. And it aims to wear down a political equilibrium patiently achieved by the majority forces.
This government crisis has opened a deep wound within the government structure and among the majority forces, but it has also caused dismay in the country.
It is a crisis that threatens to damage our image, it has attracted the attention of the international media and foreign chancelleries.
At this point, we cannot cancel what has happened or think that we can recover that climate of trust and that sense of trust which are essential conditions for being able to work, all together, in the interest of the country.
Now we have to turn the page. This country deserves a cohesive government, dedicated full-time to working exclusively for the well-being of citizens and to encourage a prompt restart of our social life and an incisive recovery of our economy.
The tasks are many and they are all urgent.
First of all, we must all continue to work together to secure the country and get it out of this pandemic.
The vaccine distribution plan is proceeding apace. We are the first in Europe, but we must continue to work with the utmost determination, pending the availability of the new vaccines and of being able to test the new monoclonal antibody therapies. Among other things, in the coming months it will be important to strengthen the testing policy also following the latest resolution approved by the Senate.
We need to complete the Recovery Plan, urgently.
We have sent the updated document to Parliament, updated by virtue of the contribution of all the majority forces, which I thank them for this improvement. And now we look forward to receiving the valuable information that will be contained in Parliament’s resolutions.
I want to take advantage of this opportunity to address a thought of thanks, on behalf of the government, to all the associations representing the productive categories, to the Italian trade union. During this pandemic, all of these associations are making an indispensable contribution to making our interventions even more effective. I also acknowledged that they are contributing to a very important function these days: the social stability of the country. Moreover, with the safety protocols, together with the CTS and, lastly, with the willingness to collaborate to speed up the administration of vaccines, all the associations have set all the conditions for health protection, safety in the workplace and economic recovery to march in unison. They too will be involved in this process. I imagine from you at the hearing and also from the government because we will also show them this new updated version and the Recovery Plan. We also expect a contribution from them. I would also like to underline that once we have received the precious indications contained in the resolutions in Parliament, we will work on the definitive version of the Recovery Plan. We will bring it back to Parliament for final approval. So there will be ample opportunity to speak and collect all your information. Attention, however, so that this collective effort can produce its effects, and we must not lower the threshold of attention because it is a considerable effort for our country, we will also have to accompany the plan with a legislative provision containing procedural paths capable of overcoming bureaucratic obstacles and ensuring rapid and certain deadlines for the implementation of the investments and the reform plan. In short, we will have to reinforce those safeguards that allow us to respect deadlines and carefully monitor the execution of the works.
We must urgently work, in the coming days, starting tomorrow, to enact the new refreshment decree. Parliament will be called upon to rule on the new request for a deviation, which has become necessary also due to the current evolution of the epidemiological curve which foreshadows new restrictions on economic activities. The sum that you will find indicated in our request, in our report, is very substantial: 32 billion euros of net debt. They are the resources of everyone, of the citizens, we must plan the measures with the utmost caution to offer a further belt of social and economic protection and relaunch for the country. Obviously, among these sums, I say it in advance, we must set aside the reserves necessary to activate the social safety nets for the whole of 2021.
Italy needs a series of interventions and reforms in the economic and social field which envisage a renewed commitment by the Government, between now and the end of the legislature. I don’t want to go into detail so as not to bore you, but you have to intervene for the job.
We must complete the rationalization of the social safety nets system, a major and demanding overall reform. We need to offer solid proposals for active employment policies. March and tomorrow and you know that the layoffs, the freeze on layoffs is valid until the end of March.
We still have to strengthen health, health interventions, I do not linger.
Again, work for education and research.
The green revolution, environmental sustainability and protection of the territory: we must accelerate the decarbonisation of electricity production; we must promote the renewal of the public rolling stock and of private and commercial means of transport; strengthen the water network and make the area safe; urban regeneration, many other chapters;
Industrial policy: Here it deserves a digression but I simplify. We must continue in this period of recession to protect and oversee what are the most strategic investments in the country, we must favor an industrial strategy aimed at relaunching the competitiveness of the production system, aimed at generating a structural change towards economic activities with high added value; we must avoid concentrating interventions according to an easy, accessible logic of incentives, which however risk being distributed indiscriminately, without bringing adequate added value; we must strengthen intervention policies on the basis of production chains, those that are our strength: I am thinking for example of tourism, automotive, agro-industrial and others;
we must foster public-private partnership;
we must also strengthen the third sector from a social economy perspective, the activities of the third sector, the intervention of non-profit organizations in order to better calibrate the interventions on social needs that are still not fully satisfied – I am thinking of housing services, services for children, families, care services for the benefit of the vulnerable and the elderly. We will continue to pay great attention, constant attention, to people with disabilities, to the most fragile sections of the population, and to their families. We must strengthen policies for self-sufficient life, work and finally recognize, there are already initiatives in Parliament, the figure of the caregiver, all the tools and initiatives useful for strengthening social inclusion.
Gender policies and female empowerment: we must tackle gender gaps by promoting actions aimed at increasing female employment, leveling wage gaps, freeing women from imbalances in care burdens, strengthening support for women victims of violence, making a difference in the cultural and educational paradigms regarding the gender issue, to favor a more transversal and integrated participation of women within society;
A great chapter of reform will be the tax reform: there is already a discussion underway, there is a concrete reform project. We must achieve this, to rationalize the existing framework, which is also essential to fully rebuild trust between citizens, businesses, institutions, as well as to orient our tax system towards competitiveness and sustainable growth.
We must continue along the path of digitizing the country: We have made great strides. In September 2019, Spid, which is the digital identity, was known and had been activated by only 4 million citizens. Now we are at 16 million and one hundred thousand. The Io app, which allows you to have digitalized services with the public administration, therefore comfortably staying at home, did not exist in September 2019. We are now 9 million 365 thousand citizens. Our goal is to reduce these inequalities, the various inequalities, also to aim for equality of the starting points. Among these inequalities, in addition to those of gender, territorial, generational, there is a great inequality, a great factor of inequality, the digital divide, the possibility of accessing or not accessing infotelematic tools.
Culture and tourism: There is a lot to do, they are among the sectors most suffering, most affected by this pandemic, we must enhance the main cultural assets of the country, we must work to train staff, strengthen the tourist offer, also through the attraction of new investments. Yesterday in the Chamber we all applauded the news of Procida, the island of Arturo. It is the new Italian capital of culture in 2022.
On all these issues, I clearly made a synthesis, there is the possibility among the parliamentary forces to operate a convergence of reform perspectives and concrete proposals, on which to orient future government action for the relaunch of the country. We will work in the coming months to carry out these reforms, these interventions to allow Italy to follow a path of growth with the aim of reducing existing inequalities, increasing competition while also contrasting position income. We will work on this, in this direction.
It is then necessary to dedicate a particular effort to continue with conviction also the path of institutional reforms, an essential precondition for modernizing the country and the greater functionality of its institutions.
All the more so, following the historic constitutional reform which led to a substantial reduction in the number of parliamentarians approved by the decisive majority of citizens in the confirmatory referendum. Yesterday I also announced to the Chamber, in the matter of electoral law, the commitment of the Government, but obviously respecting the autonomous decisions of the parliamentary forces, to promote and contribute to an electoral reform, as far as it is concerned, to an electoral reform of proportional structure, shared as much as possible, because it is a system law, which can effectively combine the reasons for the pluralism of representation with the need, albeit unavoidable, to ensure an overall stability to the political system.
I would like to clarify on this point, because I read some interpretations, let’s say malicious. In the past years we have experienced a shattering of representation. The picture of political forces has been differentiating, new processes have emerged that have affirmed themselves in a completely new, even explosive way. If we want to recompose this picture, it is not possible to do it with an electoral law that forces sensitivities, albeit so different, into the same envelope. This artifice would lead to instability, political precariousness, it would not stabilize the picture. Rather, it seems to me urgent to offer a tool, to contribute as far as is right to pursue an instrument that can also fully deploy its ability to favor the democratic representation of all the differences that are on the ground, so that the various political forces can express all their potential, that they also recover disheartened citizens from abstention, that they define their certain credible profile. Obviously then these political forces in order to govern will be called to define high-profile programmatic agreements, with a strong ideal content, in order to generate governments based on clear programs, capable of offering a solid, fruitful perspective to all citizens.
The modification of the electoral system can also be effectively accompanied by some innovations of the institutional system, all the more necessary in light of the reduction in the number of parliamentarians, in line with the guidelines already shared by the majority parliamentary groups, in the agreement reached in October. 2019.
It is necessary to introduce some corrective measures to the form of government, inspired by the model of a rationalized parliamentarism, which guarantees a more secure establishment for the executive and, at the same time, returns to Parliament a central role in defining the national political direction.
With regard in particular to the legislative procedure, some provisions may be introduced aimed at rationalizing the process of approval of the laws, also with the aim of reducing the use of the emergency decree which in this last year, due to the pandemic, has parliamentary activity was even more significantly increased and conditioned.
The experience of the pandemic requires careful, calm, meditated reflection on the revision of Title V of Part II of the Constitution. We all work together, we meditate together, on the current division of the legislative competences of the State and Regions, as well as we all work together to identify mechanisms and institutes that allow us to coordinate more effectively the relationship between the different levels of government.
In this context, special autonomies and linguistic minorities must also be guaranteed and protected with the utmost intensity. National interest is more than ever connected, in the wake of our best historical and constitutional tradition, to a system that enhances, within the framework of the unity of the Republic, the specific economic and social needs of the various territorial realities,
some of which – for geographical, linguistic and cultural specificities – undoubtedly deserve all our attention and care.
On the international level, Italy has moved in full coherence with the traditional pillars of its foreign policy, starting with its membership of the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance, within which we have carried out an action of impulse and mediation worthy of our role as a founding country.
As an authoritative member of the European Union – a function fully recovered in this section of the legislature – we have the opportunity to also offer an important contribution to a useful connection between the main international actors, starting from the United States – our main ally and fundamental strategic partner. We look very carefully to the Biden presidency, with whom we will start working immediately, also in view of our presidency of the G20. We have a dense agenda in common, which ranges from multilateralism that we both want to be effective, to climate change, to the green transition, the digital one, to social inclusion. With the United States and with the other partners of the European Union we will also work towards having relations with China,
The Italian Presidency of the G20 has just begun: we will have the opportunity to address the global agenda on the priorities we have already anticipated and which revolve around the triad: Person, Planet, Prosperity. As I have already mentioned on several occasions, we will place at the center of the attention of world leaders, among others, the issues of women’s empowerment, Africa and the digital divide.
This year we will also have the responsibility of sharing the organization of COP26 with the United Kingdom. In Milan we will have two very important events in this direction: the PreCop and the Youth4Climate. For the first time hundreds and hundreds of young people will participate, they will be directly involved in what is the most important event regarding climate change and environmental protection.
Equally strong and coherent was and will be our action at the regional level, also in line with our consolidated interest in the stabilization and development of the Mediterranean – with particular regard to a political solution to the crisis in Libya, in full compliance with the its sovereignty – and the integration process of the Western Balkans, in the belief of a destiny linked to their belonging to the European family.
Finally, we have given specific emphasis to an intense action to support the internationalization of businesses and our general economic system, through a collective commitment by the government and in particular by the Farnesina.
We are also privileged to host another significant global event, the Global Health Summit, on 21 May here in Rome, which will allow us to solemnly emphasize the importance of global coordination of efforts to tackle diseases and pandemics and to ensure more effective health protection.
Obviously we are going to give our contribution, loud and clear, programmatic, strategic, in view of the upcoming Conference for the “Future of Europe”, which will give us the opportunity to give a new impetus to the evolution of our common European home. .
And a busy schedule, you can see, which is characterized by the high density of events and also by political importance.
We cannot be caught unprepared or distracted. We are all called to make, each for his own role, a collective effort to be up to all these challenges. And that is why the Government needs the greatest possible cohesion and the widest consensus in Parliament.
To do all this we need a government, willing parliamentary forces, aware of the difficulties we are going through and the delicacy of the tasks, we need people who are willing to recognize the importance of politics.
In the initial part of my speech I claimed the political character of the choices made, of the decisions taken.
Politics is the noblest of the arts and of knowledge, because if it is declined in the right spirit that always and in any case addressed to the well-being of citizens and to the improvement of their quality of life, it becomes a very effective tool also for resolving the conflicts of society, to know and make the differences coexist, to interpret the requests, even the most diverse and distant ones. When politics disappears these instances end up remaining on the sidelines, with the risk that they remain unheard, and therefore unheard, or that they translate into anger, resulting in violent confrontation. We have an urgent need to do politics. All the more so in this context of widespread deprivation, of profound suffering. Because only politics offers us the possibility of interpreting the malaise of society, preventing it from exploding into destructive oppositions. Politics can contribute to making this malaise even a productive, positive element, a factor in the advancement of the nation. It is therefore up to us to promote, to put into political form the contradictions, the aspirations, the needs, the will on the part of all to express their potential. I am thinking of all the workers, of the productive forces which are the decisive components to be encouraged and promoted for the future of the Republic.
This government intends to pursue a clear and precise political project, which aims to modernize the country, improving its tangible and intangible infrastructures, making the energy and digital transition, enhancing social inclusion, all in the name of sustainable development. It will be our North Star.
Anyone who has ideas, projects, willing to become a builder with us of this alliance devoted to pursuing “sustainable development”, know that this is the right time to contribute to this perspective.
This alliance will be called upon to express an essential pro-European vocation. Only the political forces willing to make this clear choice of field against nationalist tendencies and sovereign aspirations can be part of it.
This alliance already exists because there is already a solid basis for dialogue fueled by the Movimento5stelle, by the Pd and by Leu, which is demonstrating the firmness of its anchorage and the breadth of its breath precisely on the occasion of the climate generated by this crisis.
It would be an enrichment for this alliance, I want to affirm it very clearly, to also be able to acquire the political contribution of formations that also historically are placed in the wake of the best Europeanist traditions: I am thinking of the liberal, popular, socialist one.
But I ask for clear and transparent support, which is based on convinced adherence to a political project. Of course the numbers are important. Today even more. This is a fundamental step in the institutional life of our country. Numbers are important, and today they are especially important. But even more important is the quality of the political project. And we ask all the political and parliamentary forces who care about Italy’s destiny to help us get back on track as quickly as possible. Help us to heal as soon as possible the wound that the crisis has produced in the “pact of trust” established in the pact with citizens. Why “pact of trust” with citizens
Because trust between institutions and citizens must be mutual, a perpetual motion. It must develop in a one-to-one relationship.
We have asked and are still asking citizens for many sacrifices, big, small, because – we said, we are all convinced – they are necessary to overcome the pandemic.
And the citizens offered a great response, a response of great responsibility, which demonstrated the greatness, the resilience, of our nation. By respecting the rules, by accepting to make the sacrifices required, you are showing that you place great trust in the institutions as well.
Here with today’s vote I am confident that the institutions will also know how to repay the trust of the citizens, in order to put behind us as quickly as possible the serious act of irresponsibility that has plunged us into this condition of objective uncertainty.
I want to announce to the majority forces that support this Government that in the next few days I will ask you to complete the discussion already started to define a pact for the end of the legislature and to agree together, in a climate of full loyalty and trust, the most useful conditions and forms for also strengthen the government team.
For my part, yesterday I already announced that, given the new challenges that await me this year, also the international commitments, which this year will be very dense and pressing, that I do not intend to maintain the delegation to agriculture if not strictly necessary and I also make use of the faculty, which the law grants me, to designate a delegated authority of my trust, as the law prescribes, which can follow the daily work of women and men in the intelligence sector.
On this I address an invitation to everyone, I already addressed it yesterday to the parliamentarians of the House, let’s avoid instrumental controversies involving the women and men of the intelligence sector. You are all parliamentarians, if you have doubts and perplexities, legitimate in democracy, indeed I invite you to take the initiative, but you have two possibilities: one, if the current regulation does not satisfy you, there is the path of a regulatory process for any changes; the second, if you are perplexed about the management profiles, there is a branch, the Copasir. Contact your Copasir colleagues: they have an obligation to monitor and control.
For my part, I assure the maximum availability and the commitment to guide, with the contribution of all, this phase so decisive for the renewal of the country.
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in his end-of-year message to the country said, “the trust we need is built like this: keeping the responsibilities of the institutions connected with the feelings of the people”.
If Parliament wants to give confidence to the Government, I guarantee to all of you and to all citizens that we will not only continue to use all our energies, physical and intellectual, to carry out our task. But we will also add, as always, our hearts, because politics without “sympatheia”, that feeling of real sharing, remains a soulless discipline.
We must build this new political bond, aimed at the parliamentary forces that have loyally supported the Government and open to all those who care about Italy’s destiny. I am willing to do my part.
Long live Italy.
Thanks.
