• Atreju, center-right in comparison

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21 September 2019The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte spoke in Atreju, the party of Brothers of Italy on the Tiber Island in Rome. The prime minister released a series of statements collected by Bruno Vespa.

The prime minister was introduced by FdI leader Giorgia Meloni: we are the true democrats in this country - he said -. I ask you to welcome President Giuseppe Conte with applause, today he makes an undeniable gesture, an act of courage.

Any reform project needs a minimum time span of two or three years, minimum minimum of two years, said the premier Giuseppe Conte. To implement a concrete project, I accepted this challenge of the Conte bis, he specified.

The 5-Star Movement - said Conte - has had the role of breaking, prodding to regenerate the system. Speaking of the other great party of the Conte bis coalition, he specified that he had "never attended Pd, never had a party card". On Senator Matteo Renzi, who founded "Italia Viva", Conte said he would have preferred that Renzi had formalized the decision to set up a new party before the government was born, but this does not mean that he now fears destabilization. The answer to those who quoted him the title of the Economist that defines Renzi "Demolition man". "Now - explains Conte - I have no reason to believe that he will have that role which describes the title of the Economist".

On the former ally the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini, Conte said: this afternoon Orban will come here, ask him why he did not follow Salvini in Europe. The League found itself isolated, with other forces further to the right than Visegrad.

Regarding the upcoming commitments of the Government, Conte said about the maneuver: The 16 billion to be recovered? We are already working on it. We started rocketing to find the resources.

The real obstacle, and therefore the real result, "of the maneuver" will be the containment of the VAT increase, which costs 23 billion, said Conte. With the budget law, therefore, you can only give the first significant tastings of what the political project will be, but there will be interventions in favor of average or low incomes, with free nurseries and attention to research.

The Tap will be made - the premier concluded - but the future is not in the drilling, there will be no new concessions in addition to those already in place. We must encourage the transition to sustainable energy, a green new deal, Conte added, I will ask for a pact with the whole industrial and production world.