ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “I don’t think it will be voted before it is planned but a clear word must say it to Premier Giorgia Meloni.” Thus the president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, in an interview with the director of Milano Finanza Roberto Sommella. To a question about the failure of Italy’s infringement procedure for the deficit, the former prime minister replied: “It was one of the most serious mistakes of Meloni and Giorgetti to think of public accounts as an end and not as an instrument.”.
“My government fell because Italian and foreign financial environments did not feel that I was, in their eyes, a guarantee to manage the 209 billion we had obtained in Europe. Evidently for them it was already clear that they would not be the usual known ones,” explains Conte. The Pnrr “first thing I would have done so to spend it all – continues – since with the Meloni Government, to date, we are at a grounding around about 50% of the total resources, two and a half months from the expiry of the Plan. And this despite the same executive has produced itself in numerous renounces.”.
Regarding the proposal to tax extra profits, for the M5S leader “everything is more effective if done on a European scale. But in the meantime we must move also within the individual countries, and many on the taxation of energy profits have done so. Meloni not, because when it comes to energy and banking colossi it is portrayed with admirable speed”. In order to increase the purchasing power of households “we have proposed innovative mechanisms such as the adjustment of Irpef scales and the main tax deductions to inflation. In practice, if inflation rises above a certain level, it must at the same time lighten the weight of Irpef and broaden the benefit of tax deductions to immediately activate a protection of purchasing power,” explains Conte.
In order to reduce inequalities, “we have proposed a real taxation of bank and energy profits, a reshaping of the enormous military expenses planned by this government and a total rediscussion of the Stability Pact and the ReArm Eu – says Conte -. In a stagnation phase such as the current one, Pro-cyclical pacts and clauses do nothing but exacerbate the situation. We cannot afford it.” And on savings remember: “When I was in Chigi I started working on the promotion of a large sovereign fund that would be important to effectively plan the most strategic investments and to prevent Italian savings from being managed by large foreign investment funds.”.
State participatory for the former premier “are strategic, as we have demonstrated in the years of the Count Governments. We do not propose any operation to sell or sell, on the contrary we intend to involve those who have experience, foresight and investment “patient” in a multi-year plan of industrial development, fundamental after the cocci left on the ground by Meloni, Giorgetti and Urso”.
To the question whether he is repented of the Profit of citizenship and the Superbonus, Conte responds as follows: “No, because the Citizenship Revenue has given back hopes, saved people, protected more than a million women, men and minors in the pandemic; the Superbonus has been a boost for the economy at one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the country, however, managed almost completely by the Draghi and Meloni governments, with Minister Giorgetti in the front line”.
Finally, on foreign policy “Italy has to remain clinging to its Constitution, it is from there that it starts. We are in favour of sanctions to Russia as we are, however, in the presence of a genocide in Gaza, to abandon the agreements with Israel – concludes the president of the M5S -. And this independence anchored to the Constitutional Charter also applies to American President Donald Trump when he violates international law as it is happening with the war in Iran.”.
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