The Chamber votes confidence in Conte with 321 votes in favor, 259 against and 27 abstentions

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January 18, 2021

The Chamber voted the confidence of Prime Minister Conte with 321 votes in favor, 259 against and 27 abstentions, obtaining an absolute majority.

The executive thus overcomes the first obstacle, after the abandonment of the Italia Viva delegation.

Tomorrow the decisive appointment: the vote of the Senate.

Fifty-five minutes of speech to ask Parliament's confidence in its government.

Giuseppe Conte made his communications to the Chamber, a debate followed (

), at the end of which the session was suspended to sanitize the Chamber.

The reply from the Prime Minister followed.

Then, the explanations of vote and the vote on confidence.

In his speech, Conte sent some messages.

He put the electoral law at the center of the political agenda, playing the proportional card:

Italy has a solid

;

the majority reached a convergence of views;

in the

there were vision and ideal drive;

I speak on behalf of the government with my head held high but not out of arrogance.

We have acted with the utmost care;

the government has laid the

of growth;

the

will arrive from June

;

I acknowledge the

opposition;

The

and oriented to the needs;

and at times

;

from Iv

;

about a crisis with the pandemic still ongoing;

the crisis has already raised the spread.

And again: the

in Parliament;

I

for the crisis

;

there was no need for a political crisis at this stage;

The

, now we turn the page;

the country deserves a

;

the crisis has caused

.

We must go on to secure the country;

for the

there will now be a discussion with the social partners;

the final draft will be after the discussion with the social partners.

It is necessary to find the convergence between all the parliamentary forces;

Government with

;

the

no longer be postponed;

the government is committed to

proportional

.

Willing parliamentary forces are needed;

I ask for

and transparent

on a project.

To those who have the destiny of Italy at heart I say: 'help us';

majority already has M5s, Pd, Leu, it would be enriching to

;

I will not keep the delegation to

;

I will appoint a trusted person as delegated

;

I will complete the work begun for a

and strengthen the government team;

if Parliament confirms confidence in the government, I am

.

These are the key words of the reply, the Prime Minister has restarted from the appeal to the 'willing' and to the pro-Europeans:

The pandemic creates

;

appeal to those with a

;

for our project

;

Italy has strong

;

long and warm phone call with

, harmony on multilateralism and climate;

now serious, each future country depends on choices;

my project for a

;

after US events, aware that

with deeds and words;

my appeal very clear and sharp, precise project;

strong acceleration on

post-earthquake

;

The

as in the US;

aware that

; 

;

for the

the final act will take place after the passage to the Chambers and with the social partners;

in recovery up to

.

The premier's speech

"At the beginning of this government experience - said Conte -, in 2019, I prefigured a clear political project for the country. I specified that the program could not be resolved in a mere list of heterogeneous proposals or a sterile sum of the positions of the majority forces. An alliance between formations coming from histories, experiences, cultures of different origins and which in the past had confronted each other with harshness, could only arise on two discriminating factors. The convinced anchoring to constitutional values ​​and the solid pro-European vocation of the Country".

"From the beginning, I worked to ensure that the prospect of a broad and courageous reform plan emerged" to "configure a new reforming season" based on "sustainability, social and territorial cohesion, and the full development of the human person. today "there is a vision".

"In these dramatic months" of the Covid pandemic "this majority has shown great responsibility, reaching convergence of views, determination of action even in the most difficult moments".

"At the beginning of 2020" the government project had to "deal with the pandemic that has deeply upset society and the very dynamics of our relations. We are facing an epochal challenge - said Conte -, we live primordial fears," more often known by generations of the past. We go back to feeling deeply fragile, some deep-rooted certainties have been questioned. We have measured ourselves daily as never in the past with science and techniques, with the difficulty of providing effective and rapid answers ".

"First in the West we were forced to introduce restrictive measures of the rights of the person, working very delicate balances of constitutional principles".

"Have we always made better choices? Everyone will express their evaluations. For my part - explained the premier in the Chamber - I can say that the government has worked with the utmost care and attention for the delicate balances, including constitutional ones. If today I can speak to the name of the whole government with its head held high is not for the arrogance of those who believe they have not made mistakes but for the awareness of those who have worked with all their physical and mental energy for the national community ". 

"We could not have achieved all this if there had not been sharing, collaboration, responsibility, in each - each - political force", explained Conte, listing the main measures of the budget law and the simplification decree.

"The sense of responsibility of the opposition forces was also fundamental, which, despite the dialectic of politics, contributed to tackling critical passages. We must acknowledge this. You have also made concrete, qualifying proposals, some of which have been accepted by the forces of majority". 

"Precisely in the most critical moments of the country we must find the noblest and highest reasons for politics", as a "service for the needs of the national community" and not as a "logic of power. We cannot offer the society that is coming out of the pandemic with difficulty. mediocre responses. The government must be up to this task. "

"On January 13 at a press conference the resignation of the ministers of Iv was confirmed. A crisis has opened that must find here its own clarification in transparency of the confrontation and linearity of action that have characterized my mandate".

"Our energies should all be, always concentrated on the crisis in the country. Thus, in the eyes of the citizens, they appear dissipated in polemical contributions, often sterile, completely incomprehensible. In this way we all risk losing contact with reality. There was a real need. to open a political crisis at this stage? No ".

In the midst of the Covid pandemic and while "those who have lost loved ones listen to us from home, I confess I feel some discomfort. I am here today not to announce new support measures or the latest draft of the Recovery plan but to try to explain a crisis in which not only citizens but myself no plausible foundation ".

"This crisis has caused profound dismay in the country, it risks producing considerable damage and not only because it has raised the spread but even more because it has attracted the attention of the international media and foreign chancelleries. Let's face it frankly, that cannot be canceled. that happened ", continued Prime Minister Conte, speaking of the trust between the allied forces as" essential conditions "to lead the country.

"Although there was a clear contribution to the improvement of the original draft" of the Recovery plan "there was an abstention motivated mainly by the fact that the draft does not include the resources of the Mes, which however has nothing to do with the Recovery fund ".

The Italian Recovery Plan will be a "widely shared plan, a collective effort to be proud of".  

The country "deserves a cohesive government, now we turn the page", said Conte speaking in the Chamber in the Chamber.

As for industrial policy, "we must continue to protect the country's most strategic investments".

"We must strengthen intervention policies based on our most productive supply chains", adds Conte. 

"The single monthly check is part of a framework of interventions aimed at lightening the tax burden on families", explained the Prime Minister, speaking in the Chamber in the Chamber announcing that from "July" the "single monthly check" will be introduced for families with children under 21.

Then again: "the government, clearly respecting the decisions of the parliamentary forces, will undertake to promote a proportional electoral reform, shared as much as possible, which can combine the reasons for pluralism with the need to ensure stability in the political system". 

The challenges facing Italy require "the greatest possible cohesion, the broadest consensus in Parliament. A willing government and parliamentary forces are needed, aware of the delicacy of their tasks. Able to escape selfishness and personal profit".

"This alliance can already count on a solid basis for dialogue fueled by M5s, Pd, Leu, which is showing the solidity of its anchorage and the breadth of its breath. It would be an enrichment of this alliance to be able to acquire political contributions from formations that place in the highest pro-European tradition: liberal, popular, socialist. But they asked for clear and transparent support. 

"Given the new challenges and also the international commitments, I do not intend to keep the delegation to Agriculture except as strictly necessary and I will also take advantage of the faculty to designate a delegated intelligence authority of my trust ", announced Conte.

" Help us to re-imagine the current crisis.

Dear citizens, trust must be mutual, it must be something that is nourished in a two-way way.

You have offered a response of great responsibility, you are showing that you place great trust in the institutions.

I trust that with today's vote, even the institutions will be able to repay this trust "by repairing" the grave act of irresponsibility "that has produced this crisis. 

" Let's build a government open to all those who care about Italy's destiny ", he concluded Count his speech in the Chamber in the Chamber.

14 applause from the majority

The communications from the Prime Minister were punctuated by fourteen applauses from the majority.

Of these, only one was shared by some deputies of IV, that relating to the announcement of the forthcoming appointment of a delegated authority for the secret services.

was the one that underlined the thanks of the Prime Minister to the role of the trade unions, but also that for the choice of Procida as the capital of Culture was thunderous.

Applause came when Conte claimed the "good job" of his government, its ability to "offer the best to the national community", on the launch of the single monthly check.

Clapping comes when Conte calls for a "solution to the crisis" that "people don't understand" and "doesn't make sense".

Consent of the majority,

, to the announcement of an electoral law in a proportional key.

appeal to give "a contribution" launched to political forces and the need to "say no to sovereignty".