Rome, 2 Oct. (LaPresse) – “I want to say to Giorgia Meloni: accept that you’ve failed and go home. The sooner we hold an election, the better it will be for Italy.” So said PD Secretary Elly Schlein as she opened the party’s national executive meeting. “We want to build an alternative to defeat these right-wing parties that have failed, because, as you have seen over recent weeks, the Meloni government has become the longest-serving in the history of the Republic, and they have celebrated it with disproportionate fanfare – the sort reserved for when it is the only achievement you can boast of. Except that stability ceases to be a means and becomes an end in itself. If stability translates into inaction, it does not serve the country’s best interests, and that is exactly what we have seen: you can stay at Palazzo Chigi for a long time, whilst the country stands still. That is exactly what Giorgia Meloni has done,” insisted the PD leader. “However, that record exposes their propaganda. The alibis, the self-justifying excuses and the buck-passing that simply no longer holds water are over, because if, after four years, Italy is worse off, the responsibility lies with them: it cannot always be someone else’s fault. No one has had as much time as they have, nor the numbers in Parliament. Think of the historic opportunity Giorgia Meloni has squandered: with those numbers, with that majority, she could have changed everything, carried out bold reforms. They cannot erase the record of the right’s tenure in the country’s affairs – a glaring failure stemming, first and foremost, from the arrogance and incompetence of a high-handed ruling class held together not by a vision for Italy, but by a power pact. And it is a failure that combines a disconcerting political weakness with a dangerous democratic fragility,” he added.
Schlein to Meloni: “You’ve failed – go home; the sooner we hold an election, the better”
Rome, 2 Oct. (LaPresse) – “I want to say to Giorgia Meloni: accept that you’ve failed and go home. The sooner we hold an election, the better it will be for Italy.” So said PD Secretary Elly Schlein as she opened the party’s national executive meeting. “We want to build an alternative to defeat these right-wing parties that have failed, because, as you have seen over recent weeks, the Meloni government has become the longest-serving in the history of the Republic, and they have celebrated it with disproportionate fanfare – the sort reserved for when it is the only achievement you can boast of. Except that stability ceases to be a means and becomes an end in itself. If stability translates into inaction, it does not serve the country’s best interests, and that is exactly what we have seen: you can stay at Palazzo Chigi for a long time, whilst the country stands still. That is exactly what Giorgia Meloni has done,” insisted the PD leader. “However, that record exposes their propaganda. The alibis, the self-justifying excuses and the buck-passing that simply no longer holds water are over, because if, after four years, Italy is worse off, the responsibility lies with them: it cannot always be someone else’s fault. No one has had as much time as they have, nor the numbers in Parliament. Think of the historic opportunity Giorgia Meloni has squandered: with those numbers, with that majority, she could have changed everything, carried out bold reforms. They cannot erase the record of the right’s tenure in the country’s affairs – a glaring failure stemming, first and foremost, from the arrogance and incompetence of a high-handed ruling class held together not by a vision for Italy, but by a power pact. And it is a failure that combines a disconcerting political weakness with a dangerous democratic fragility,” he added.