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03 August 2019 "We write the maneuver together and continue to change the country". So from the Corriere della Sera the vice-pentastellati vice-president Luigi Di Maio answers to the fellow Northern League Matteo Salvini who asked for a courageous maneuver or better to go to the vote. Di Maio dulls the tone, he says he is ready to write the government maneuver together and stresses that he is "tired of quarreling" because "this damages the country". Among the priorities the leader of the M5S and deputy prime minister cites the decrease "of the taxes with the flat tax and the cutting of the tax wedge, but also the minimum wage". The Tav? "The League has changed its mind," he says, and the motion "commits Parliament not the government". Fear of returning to the vote? "In my opinion - Di Maio replies - we must think only of doing one thing: governing. We have shown that we can do it. And the facts speak for themselves, all the measures have been shared, we have always worked with commitment and serenity. We continue to do so." On justice then: "If the League tells me about what, yes. Because of requests they did not arrive. However the facts matter and the justice reform will take place and also in a short time, I assure you. If the League has any doubts we are "We are ready to listen to them. For us, dialogue is fundamental. We bring this reform home: the time required for the trials is too long and must be shortened. This is what our citizens ask us and this we must commit ourselves to do".

Salvini: "If you get together just to fight, you get divorced"
Matteo Salvini seems to agree on what the citizens are asking. He is interviewed by the newspaper La Stampa and reports on internal government tensions. "April, May, June, July: four months of quarrels, controversies, attacks by everyone, Toninelli, Bonafede, Di Battista, Di Maio, Lezzi. I'm fed up, and oh well, but people are getting tired of it too ". Unplug? "The plug - the deputy premier explains - comes off if you only fight. We also do good things and things. But I confess that I always struggle. If the attacks come from the left, it's part of the game. If they come from the allies, it's serious ". The reporter asks him what gives him more trouble. "Always say" no "and always try to block everything", he replies. "Apart from the deteriorated climate of the last four months, I would make the choice I made a year ago. The government will be able to go on for a long time or a little, but it has also done good things," stresses the deputy premier speaking of the government in the past. And when the journalist points it out to him, he replies: "At a certain point, if you're together just to fight, you get divorced. We'll see."

The Minister of the Interior then commented on the words of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen who said she was willing to make a new pact on migrants and to re-discuss the Dublin Treaty "would be desirable", says Salvini, certainly "a positive sign" by the EU. "I only hope that it is not a way for the France-Germany couple to change the form and leave the substance intact, that is to say that the migrants who come to Italy remain there".