Giorgia Meloni is officially a candidate in the European elections next June.
From the stage of the programmatic conference of her party, Brothers of Italy, in Pescara, the Prime Minister announced that she will run.
On stage, Meloni recalled the previous European electoral challenges, of 2014 when the party did not reach the quorum of 4 percent and those of 2019 when it reached 6.5 percent.
“In six years we have increased by two percent, in the last three we have reached 26.5 percent,” said Meloni.
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There was no shortage of criticism of the European Green Deal and the “bureaucrats locked in a glass palace.”
Fratelli d’Italia had six deputies in the IX legislature of the European Parliament, belonging to the European Conservatives and Reformists Ecr group.
According to the recent Ipsos poll for Euronews, Meloni’s party could obtain up to 24 seats in the next elections in June, with 27 percent of the vote.
Now registered to run in the European elections scheduled for June of next year is Giorgia Meloni. In Pescara, the prime minister declared her candidacy from the platform of her party, Brothers of Italy, programmatic conference.
On stage, Meloni reviewed the party’s prior electoral struggles in Europe in 2014, when it fell short of the 4 percent threshold, and in 2019, when it attained the 6 percent threshold. “We have grown by two percent over the last six years, and in the last three, we have reached 26.5%,” Meloni said. “I don’t recall this story as a rhetorical exercise of self-fulfillment and self-celebration; rather, I say it to remind myself and everyone else that the things we have earned do not remain unearned; we must work toward earning them. Meloni continued.
Meloni went on to assert that she had placed Italy back at the forefront of European and global politics by bringing the Pope to the next G7 meeting in Puglia. She then launched an offensive against the opposition, denouncing the symbols used by the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement—the latter of which included the word peace in its logo—for their respective electoral campaigns.
Meloni, speaking of the agreement between Rome and Tirana on migrant centers in Albanian territory, said, “It is the left that has threatened to kick Edi Rama out of the socialists because he dared to make himself available to the centre-right government to help Italy instead of thanking him.” The prime minister credited herself with the agreements with Egypt and Tunisia for the management of migrants.
The European Green Deal and “bureaucrats locked in a glass palace” were widely criticized. In reference to electric cars, Meloni asserted that Europe must stop. “It must leave it up to research, the market, and companies to develop the cleanest technologies and the Member States, also based on their social model, to decide how to achieve those objectives,” he said. “Because while we save the environment, we also want to save the thousands of businesses and the thousands of jobs.” Meloni also claimed that the obligation to advance the energy class would be achieved in a few years.
Fratelli d’Italia, a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Ecr group, had six deputies in the European Parliament’s IX legislature. With 27 percent of the vote, Meloni’s party could win up to 24 seats in the upcoming elections in June, according to a recent Ipsos poll conducted for Euronews.
