Milan, 18 June (LaPresse) – “It is truly incredible to see citizens’ emergencies forgotten whilst there is talk of rearmament and electoral law to cling on to power. They have lost touch with reality. Let’s take the money earmarked for rearmament and the cuts agreed in Europe under the Stability Pact and put it towards citizens’ emergencies.” So said the president of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, in a Facebook post. “At a time when Caritas is reporting record numbers of people in financial difficulty, Minister Crosetto – founder of Meloni’s party – is pressing the government to go ahead with the reckless military spending agreed at NATO and European level by his prime minister. In short, citizens’ wallets can wait, as can their wages. The arms race cannot,” Conte emphasises. “They’re in a bind because they’ve agreed to and planned that spending, but with the elections just a few months away, they can’t talk too much about weapons now after four years of zero reforms for families and businesses. Unlike Crosetto, the technical ministers – he observes – have completely thrown in the towel on education and healthcare: hospitals and schools face insufficient resources and cuts, reforms are foundering, and community homes and hospitals built under the NRRP stand empty and understaffed.”
Government, Conte: “Emergencies forgotten; talk is of rearmament and electoral law”
Milan, 18 June (LaPresse) – “It is truly incredible to see citizens’ emergencies forgotten whilst there is talk of rearmament and electoral law to cling on to power. They have lost touch with reality. Let’s take the money earmarked for rearmament and the cuts agreed in Europe under the Stability Pact and put it towards citizens’ emergencies.” So said the president of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, in a Facebook post. “At a time when Caritas is reporting record numbers of people in financial difficulty, Minister Crosetto – founder of Meloni’s party – is pressing the government to go ahead with the reckless military spending agreed at NATO and European level by his prime minister. In short, citizens’ wallets can wait, as can their wages. The arms race cannot,” Conte emphasises. “They’re in a bind because they’ve agreed to and planned that spending, but with the elections just a few months away, they can’t talk too much about weapons now after four years of zero reforms for families and businesses. Unlike Crosetto, the technical ministers – he observes – have completely thrown in the towel on education and healthcare: hospitals and schools face insufficient resources and cuts, reforms are foundering, and community homes and hospitals built under the NRRP stand empty and understaffed.”
