• Draghi: "Tight deadlines for Recovery but profound respect for Parliament".

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April 27, 2021 "Thank you for the authority you are giving back to Italy. The fact that she called Brussels asking for respect made me proud to be a parliamentarian and a citizen. Those who came before her were waiting for advice if not orders from Merkel , you picked up the phone asking for respect for Italy ". With these words Matteo Salvini addressed Mario Draghi in the Senate Hall.



"Being in Europe, yes, but as protagonists, not as paying extras", added the leader of the League. "We are not naughty pupils to be beaten, but a founding country of a dream that we want to remain such and not a cage or a constraint from which we have to free ourselves". 



Salvini's speech then ranged over various topics. " One challenge above the others is the

reform of the bureaucracy

, it may be a historic occasion, but it will take courage. I want a country where businesses are paid at 30 days and not at ninety. We invoke the European directive on payments to businesses and we invoke the cancellation of the Italian legislation on procurement replaced by the more efficient European legislation. Let's see what colleagues say. The longer the procurement process, the easier it is to find a corrupt one and a corrupter. ” 



Loyal allies

"If anyone thinks of throwing us out of the government, they are wrong to understand. Here we are and here we remain, proud and convinced, to help our country", said Matteo Salvini. "The League exists. We are loyal allies. Unfortunately, someone on the left says. We have responded to Mattarella's appeal by putting Italy first over party interests," he added.



A government to affect

"I take care of the result. Being in government means being able to affect. If someone goes to a restaurant tonight it is because the League has insisted in recent weeks. If I were in the opposition I could protest and complain, but I could not affect. with Franceschini and Speranza it's not always easy, but today is a day that tells me it's worth it ".



"Someone in the center-right has made a legitimate choice of opposition. I prefer to decide from within, condition from within" the government's action, Salvini argued.



The League does not

throw a

tantrum

The Odg voted today by the House "means that the League does not have a tantrum, but represents the need for millions of Italians who want to return to work and freedom". "Reviewing the reopening and the curfew as early as May if the data improve is a conquest not of the League but of the Italians of common sense".



98 thousand signatures

"Freedom wins. Thanks to the battle of the League and thanks also to your precious signatures (which we continue to collect, at this moment we are at 98,265, fantastic), the government is committed to reviewing limits, closures and bans already in May, starting from the curfew, if the data continues to improve, as it has been for days, with hospitalized and infected people in sharp decline. No curfews, closures and bans to the bitter end until June or even July as someone wanted. I trust you, I trust Italians".



Distrust of Hope?

"First I want to have a chat with Undersecretary Sileri, of whom I have enormous esteem and trust", added the head of the League, citing Undersecretary M5s who in recent days had criticized the reopening plan. "Before deciding, I want to know how Undersecretary Sileri, who belongs to the 5 stars and not from the Lega, has worked and is working with Speranza. I will also rely on his reasoning and words. Sileri's opinion interests me" . And who asked him if Giorgia Meloni's was not enough? "I listen to everyone," he replied.



The PNRR could be read

Meloni says it is impossible to read the Recovery Plan in a few days? "I did it, I read it all. One has to feel like a bit. It took me more than one night ...". So Salvini, in L'Aria che tira, on La7.