Adnkronos Rome, March 19 (Adnkronos) – It will be a 'communicative magic' of hers, as they say in Transatlantico on the side of the majority, that of Giorgia Meloni who with the attack today in the chamber on the Ventotene Manifesto has diverted attention from the tensions of the center-right. But the prime minister has also caused the same effect in the opposing camp: the divided oppositions, who showed up in the chamber with 6 different resolutions, have returned to speak with one voice in defense of the anti-fascist Manifesto of Ventotene, the founding text of the European Union, which the Prime Minister has said she does not recognize: "That is not my Europe".
Harsh comment from Elly Schlein: "Giorgia Meloni has decided in the chamber to hide the divisions of her government by outraging European memory. We do not accept attempts to rewrite history". Matteo Renzi wrote on social media. "Meloni does not love Ventotene because the history of Ventotene says the opposite of the history of Giorgia Meloni. The next elections will be a referendum between those who believe in the ideas of Ventotene and those who believe in Giorgia Meloni. We have no doubts about which side to be on".
The effect of the prime minister's words was also seen in the vote on the resolutions. After the divisions in the PD on the ReArm Eu plan, resolved in a long mediation, there were still fears of 'deviations' with respect to the voting instructions. They did not occur. "The entire group voted as one", it is reported. And the tables confirm it. The only exception was Lorenzo Guerini, who in addition to the PD resolution, also voted in favor of those of Azione and Più Europa, less critical than the dem text on the ReArm Eu plan.
In detail, the Democratic Party obviously voted for its resolution, rejected that of the majority, voted in favor of the point in the Avs text that says no to the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and against, instead, the request, again by the Green and Left Alliance, to stop sending military supplies to Kiev. On this last point there was apparently some non-participation in the vote among the Democrats. In short, an 'orderly' result after days of tension in the Democratic Party.
Another point that was highlighted by all the opposition was the absence in the chamber, at the time of the vote declarations, of Prime Minister Meloni. After the attack on the Manifesto of Ventotene, the controversy in the chamber has ignited. Among the interventions, the passionate one of the dem Federico Fornaro has already gone viral on social media. "It is not acceptable to caricature those men, you, President Meloni, sit in this Parliament also thanks to them, this is a sacred place of democracy and we are here thanks to those visionaries of Ventotene who were political confines. The Prime Minister should kneel in front of these men and women, rather than mock them", he shouted, getting emotional in the chamber.
After the tensions, the timing of the chamber was postponed by several hours, when Meloni was already leaving for the European Council in Brussels. Faced with protests for the absence of the Prime Minister, Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano intervened in the chamber: "The government has the utmost respect for Parliament, and in particular the Prime Minister's Office and the Prime Minister, who however was aware of the original program of the Chamber that would have concluded its work in the early afternoon and at this moment is already flying to Brussels".
A clarification that did not convince the opposition. "Giorgia Meloni - attacks Elly Schlein - has run away again, we haven't seen her since last December and the times she has shown up in the chamber can be counted on the fingers of one hand. She has closed herself for months in the embarrassed silence of someone who doesn't know what to say or doesn't want to say what she thinks". And then Giuseppe Conte: "You have changed your mind on Ventotene, but you are bordering on ingratitude. President Meloni has now flown to Brussels, she couldn't wait, and yet she could have stayed". Then Angelo Bonelli: "This is the Ventotene manifesto, I would have given it to the president but she is running away from the parliamentary debate, also because she has a problem with the League".
Net of the different positions within the opposition camp, all the minority groups highlight those present in the majority. And this morning the Lega group leader Riccardo Molinari served an assist on this by speaking on TV. Schlein reiterates it: "The Lega has essentially placed President Meloni under administration by saying that she has no mandate to express herself to the EU Council". The PD secretary insists on the divisions of the majority: "In your resolution, in order not to divide into three different positions, you have made the common defense and Ursula von der Leyen's recovery plan disappear, you wrote it with invisible ink. It's easy to make divisive proposals disappear, I believe you are united, you have not written anything".
Maria Elena Boschi points out: "The League has a clear line, and she said it: she does not have the mandate to go to the EU Council". And then Riccardo Magi: "Meloni is shrewd and crafty. She wants us to talk about her obscene words and her wrong and fraudulent exegesis of the Ventotene Manifesto to hide that she does not have a foreign policy line and does not have a majority in foreign policy. I am not the one saying it, but the leader of the League, Molinari, said it". And again Bonelli: Meloni "today knowingly carried out this operation" on Ventotene "because Molinari said clearly that he does not have the mandate to say yes to Rearm Europe". Finally Matteo Richetti of Azione: "While we were discussing, a statement by Molinari came out in which he says that Meloni does not have the mandate to negotiate: with many greetings for the majority resolution...".