Favorite for September 25 elections, Conservative candidate alternates “common sense” proposals with a strong hand on immigration
With the peace of mind leading the polls with nearly 25% in voting intent, Giorgia Meloni heads the campaign ahead of the elections to be held in Italy on September 25, with the ambition to monopolize the conservative electorate and show that his party, the Brothers, of Italy (HdI), has left its post-fascist origins behind and is a modern and democratic political force.
Not frightening the voters of the moderate right is the big goal with which Meloni hopes to become Italy’s next head of government, although at the same time she tries to excite the most radical voters by guaranteeing that her wrist will not tremble at that moment to discuss hot topics like tackle immigration. In this way, he wants to consolidate the leadership predicted by the polls of the conservative bloc, which also includes the League of Matteo Salvini and Forza Italia, the party of the inexhaustible Silvio Berlusconi.
That dualism was very much in evidence at the meeting presented this Wednesday by the president of HdI in L’Aquila, the city in central Italy in whose one-person constituency she is running as a candidate. With a great capacity for eloquence in which she alternated moments of high tension, in which she appeared on the verge of a heart attack, with others in which she appeared with the aura of a statesman and some in which she even resembled a comedian, Meloni came into the pocket of the militants and sympathizers gathered in a central park in this city that was hit by the 2009 earthquake that killed more than 300 people.
“These are sensible things, common sense,” he repeated time and again, explaining some of the decisions he would take to “bring Italy back on its feet”, as he puts it in his election campaign slogan. He promised to reduce the tax burden, which reaches 47% and causes the state “to ask the ‘pizzo’ to make you work,” he said, referring to the tax levied by the mobsters in the areas they control. to check.
He also assured that he will relaunch the ‘Marca Italia’, champion national excellence in business, promote meritocracy, promote clean energy generation and improve access to the job market for young people. Those were her more moderate moments, when it was hard not to agree with her.
He held the flamethrower to attack the left and the five-star movement, its political rivals, and especially when it came to talking about immigration, the issue most excited about in those in attendance. First, she sharply criticized foreigners who open businesses in Italy and who she says “compete unfairly” with Italians because they don’t pay taxes and then disappear. “Let’s see if the Chinese are going to find the treasury among the 1,000 million Chinese!” he said loudly, later blaming the “good left” for mixing up “two very different things”: refugees and migrants. “The right to asylum is for those who escape war. It is as it has happened with Ukraine, as we have seen with fleeing women and children. It’s a very different picture from the barges full of men not fleeing the war,” he remarked to the applause and cheers of his followers.
The participants of the rally were happy with Meloni. “She is the only one in this political scene who has clear ideas. All other politicians are smokers, they only tell lies,” said Paolo Frizzi, a retiree from L’Aquila who was accompanied by his wife Rosetta. “With Meloni Italy, it’s coming back up, we’re all hoping for that,” the woman said.
Source: La Verdad
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