“We don't have skeletons in the closet on banks and we haven't shown favoritism: whoever made a mistake will pay but those who speculate on suicides disgust me. In any case, let it be known that Italian banks are more solid than German ones”, even if previous governments would have done well to strengthen Italian banks when the European rules, which have now changed but which Italy will respect, allowed it. The central part of the speech with which Prime Minister Matteo Renzi closed and galvanized the sixth edition of the Leopolda was entirely dedicated to the banking emergency. “If I'm at Palazzo Chigi – he said at the beginning – I owe it to Leopolda”.
Renzi made a proud speech ("We have scrapped the gerontocracy and in 22 months we have carried out more reforms than in 10 years") but recalling that "the best is yet to come" also because "the spirit of Leopolda says that either we go great or you go home”. And Renzi is determined to go on the attack both on the new reforms and on the tax cut plan and on the constitutional referendum ("For the occasion, there will be a thousand Leopolds in the area to explain and convince citizens of the goodness of our reforms") also because polls say that, if we went to vote now, the Democratic Party could garner more support than the already very high ones achieved in the last European elections.
The prime minister also reserved a few jabs for the dem minority, explaining that there are no Democratic Party flags at the Leopolda because we want to address those who want to get closer to politics even before a party, but that "we have the Democratic Party in our hearts ”.
After a personal reference to his father's legal affairs ("I am fully confident in the judiciary"), Renzi defended the Government's work on the banks and rejected all the speculations of the oppositions on alleged conflicts of interest, recalling that he had proposed the parliamentary commission of investigation into the last 10 years of Italian banks without looking at anyone and promising that "whoever made a mistake will pay".
As for the reforms, the government will not let its guard down because "our government experience has shown that change is possible" and because much remains to be done to change Italy and to give Europe a soul in the face of epochal problems but also to the first fruits that the Italian economy is finally reaping.
