“Campania can be the South’s development engine and in the last two years the South has shown that it can be Italy’s locomotive.” This is what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said, capping a center-right rally in Naples ahead of regional elections on November 23 and 24. “For too long there has been talk about the South being to be pitied, to be helped, and to be endured. Anyone who says that doesn’t know this country. Anyone who says that doesn’t know these people. This land is not a problem to be solved, but rather a thousand year old civilization to be celebrateda legacy that must be defended, a greatness that must be conquered again together.”
“Thanks to the single SEZ, investments in infrastructure, cohesion policy reforms, measures to support employment, thanks to the dynamism of business and workers in this area, GDP and employment in the South have grown more than the national average in the last two years”. “The energy that I gathered here today is a particular energy. It is the energy of a magnificent city, a unique region that does not need to apologize to anyone. I also want to convey this because for too long we have read narratives that see and want these resigned and quiet people,” he underlined.
We on the center-right, he added, “are not just a united team. We are a humanitarian and political community.” “We are a people united by choice and we are a people united by choice and proudly here in Naples, in Campania, to support the candidacy of another great political militant named Edmondo Cirielli” he said.
“The left proposes something new: the patrimonial. The patrimonial because we need to hit the rich. But the question I ask myself is this: since it says that with this maneuver we favor the rich – and therefore we mean people who earn 2,500 euros a month – do we want to apply the patrimonial to these people? Please clarify for us from the left, because it would be interesting. Without diminishing the fact that, of course, as long as we govern this nation, these strange recipes and late communists will not go away…” he assured Melons.
“We want to free children from the Camorra yoke”
After the decision to lower the threshold for applying pre-trial detention to 14 years, “they said that we want children to be imprisoned, but in reality we have another goal. The goal is to free them from the Camorra yoke, which increasingly using young boys as laborers because they could not be punished. We will not let the Camorra destroy an entire generation, we will not let them exploit children for their dirty comforts.”
“Cirielli loved father and patriot”
Edmondo Cirielli was “a loving father, a tireless militant, a capable administrator, a commanding government official, a resolute carabiniere, a passionate patriot, a proud man of the South and a friend of mine. One who always knew how to put the fate of his land and its people above his personal fate.” “Visit every square, every neighborhood, every street in Campania and talk about this: talk about Edmondo Cirielli, about our program, about our ideas, about what we also want to build on this proud and proud land.” “Tell them that there is an alternative to resignation, an alternative to failure, clientelism, ridicule, fried fish for votes, traitors, those who have denied everything just by sitting in an armchair. And tell them that the alternative is called the center-right, its name is the Brothers of Italy, its name is Edmondo Cirielli” added Meloni.
Superbonus, “120 billion debt, could have been invested in health care and jobs”
In such areas “politics too often shows that it considers citizens not so intelligent, making fun of them, as do those who promise you that you can renovate your house for free” and then leaving behind “a debt of 120 billion euros to be paid. Resources that could otherwise be invested in health services, training, education for your children, jobs and many other priorities”.
“De Luca plays a three card game, for him we are all idiots”
“A few days ago Vincenzo De Luca boasted about the extraordinary results of Campania in the management of waiting lists – recalls Meloni -. De Luca said that here, for urgent or short visits, the coverage is 100% of applicants and from this he concluded that Campania was the first Region in Italy to eliminate waiting lists. And he added that, word for word, ‘the amount of nonsense I had to listen to was simply unbearable’, because obviously we are all fools and the genius is annoyed. It’s just that, for those who know the data, This is called a three card game“.
De Luca “deliberately mentions only urgent and short-term services, which are notoriously a limited part of the total and where almost all Regions have a compliance rate close to 100%. However, what he does not say is what happens in other classes, namely the deferred and scheduled classes, which usually make up about 80% of the total services. He won’t tell you, but I will. Unfortunately, in these services, Campania continues to experience delays much higher than the national average”.
“Roberto Fico said that De Luca’s model does not represent the future of Campania. But now, he is ready to perpetuate this model. I want to ask Roberto Fico whether De Luca’s way of governing is good and whether it should be perpetuated.” “The 5 Star Movement has portrayed it for years as a system of patronage, which strangles honest people in Campania. They either lied then, or they decided that in the end it was better to be part of that system than to fight it, because one of two things: those two things are incompatible,” Meloni said. “If it weren’t a very serious thing, it would be funny, because right now we have a person who is considered the least presentable among the unpresentables, who goes to ask for votes for another person he considers incompetent. And a person who is considered incompetent goes to ask for votes for a person he thinks is unpresentable. Some want to say ‘Neapolitan comedy’, but Neapolitan comedy is something much nobler than what we see here…” he added referring to Vincenzo De Luca and Roberto Cool.
“The government serves until the end of the legislative period”
In a referendum on justice, “don’t vote thinking you are for the government or against the government, for two reasons. The government will remain in office until the end of the legislative term and will then ask to be judged on the overall work it has done. The second thing is to always remember that the government was passed, but the laws – especially constitutional law – remain and affect your life.”
The reform regarding career separation “is a reform that has been awaited for decades, which no one has completed before us. Sensible reform is necessary, not to punish the judiciary, as some say, but on the contrary to free it from the shackles of politicized currents and to increase its usefulness. For, as stated in our Constitution, which everyone quotes but few read, every citizen has the right to an impartial third judge.”
“The reality is that Italy is back with us. A serious, credible and admired country in the world is back. We have restarted the engine of this nation, restored the economy of this country after decades of wasted money and money thrown away. We have guaranteed stability which is a prerequisite for any development and growth.” Regarding regional elections in Campania “nothing is written. We are born to reverse every prediction. We have done this many times. They say we can never rule this country, and instead we rule this country. “Then they said that we would last a maximum of six months, and we became the third longest-serving government in Italian history,” he concluded.
