Government crisis, Salvini speaks in the Senate: "The vote is the high road"

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"The high road is the one of the elections, but if you want to go on we are there: we cut the parliamentarians and then we go to vote. If then one wants to put a courageous economic maneuver, we are there. If, instead, you want to govern with Renzi, Boschi and Lots, greetings and best wishes to the Italians ". Matteo Salvini speaks in the Senate room. His speech follows that of Giuseppe Conte, who spoke today for the last time as President of the Council: at the end of the debate at Palazzo Madama, he will go up to the Colle to resign.

I am here "with the great strength of being a free man, so it means that I am not afraid of the judgment of the Italians - continues Salvini, speaking from the Senate cabinet, not from the government. At the end of Conte's speech, the leader of the League was rising, next to the prime minister, to speak. But the president of the Senate, Casellati, stopped him, pointing to the benches of the League. "In this courtroom, there are free men and women and men and women a little less free. Who is afraid of the judgment of the Italian people is not a woman or a free man "adds the deputy premier." We are the only presumed fascists who want the vote, do you think what dictatorship we would like to have? That of the vote ... ", he continues, indicating as" most surreal "criticism of these days that" there are no crises in August, parliamentarians do not work ... We do ministers a month yes, a month no? comments Salvini.

The League is not afraid of the Pd-M5s alliance
"If someone had been thinking about a change of alliance for weeks, if not months, we give up those pains of the League and swallow the Democratic Party, they had only to say it. We are not afraid". says Salvini in the Senate again.

We also vote in September, don't tell us about VAT ...
"We also vote in September, don't come and talk to us about VAT increases, spreads, provisional years, recessions ...", reaffirms Salvini.

The Italy I have in my head does not grow by zero point
"Then I tell the Italy that we have in our heads and in our hearts, which does not grow from zero virginity, which has a real justice, where there are 60 million presumed innocents until proven guilty," the vice-prime minister says.

EU? I don't want an Italy slave of anyone
"Freedom does not consist in having the right master, but in having no master," he says, quoting Cicero. "I don't want an Italy that is a slave to anyone, I don't want chains, not the long chain. We are the most beautiful and potentially richest country in the world and I'm tired of every decision having to depend on the signing of some European official, are we or are we not free? ".

I never had coffee with Merkel ...
"I never talked to Merkel about her party interests to ask for advice on how to win the elections ... I never had a coffee complaining that Salvini has closed the ports," the deputy prime minister says.

At this point Salvini "defies" the 10 minutes that president Casellati had announced to have available. The Democratic Party protests, but the president clarifies: "Minister Salvini has asked to speak for twenty of the forty minutes scheduled for the League by the group leaders' conference. The times have been distributed in this way and therefore I am sticking to distribution". And he returns the word to Salvini.

Government over because of so many 'Mr.
"If this government has been interrupted it is because in Parliament there was so much in the government, No." This was stated by deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, speaking in the Senate Chamber.

A Conte: meeting with the social partners? They have not been heard before
"To her who told me that I met the social partners, I say that nobody listened to them. And if someone had done it before me, we would have done infretta, we open to Italy, without fear and with head up." The deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini replied, in the Senate, to Prime Minister Conte.

Maneuver? I support it with 50 billion tax cuts
"The League is ready to support an economic move if it has at least 50 billion in the budget to reduce taxes on Italian families, workers and entrepreneurs, at least, being under what France will do". The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, said this.

I had taken up the M5S challenge on the cut of parliamentarians
"Last week I took up the challenge of the 5 stars in this Chamber ...", he says, referring to the parliamentary cuts. However, Salvini does not end this passage, because it is interrupted.

Until in the field I will ask for Mary's protection
"The Italians do not vote on the basis of a rosary, but with the head and the heart. The protection of the immaculate heart of Mary for Italy I ask as long as camp, I am not ashamed, rather I am the last and humble witness".

Al M5s: good work with the Bibbiano party
The ministers of the League are "free people who respond only and only to the Italian people, not to Merkel or Macron" people who have "an idea of ​​family and children, who have a mother and a father, and good work with the party of Bibbiano ".

And again, to the 5S: if you want to complete the reforms I'm in it
"You quote Saviano, we St. John Paul II, he used to say and write that trust is not achieved by declarations alone or by force, but with gestures and concrete facts if you want to complete reforms, we are there. Renzi wishes ... "concludes the leader of the League.