On the conditions reached regarding the Stability pact she said she was satisfied. Of course, they are not exactly what she would have wanted – she smiles – but in the end "it is what emerges from a synthesis". She adds, however, that the failure to ratify the ESM (the European Stability Mechanism) should not be read in relation to the results of the Pact. Oh, not anymore? No, because Giorgia Meloni “it returned to the Chamber – he says – and there the amendment to the treaty was rejected”. Point. The reason? The answer, for the prime minister, is that "there has never been a majority on this in Parliament".
Surprisingly, with the ESM we therefore moved from the (usual) marginalization of the Chambers to a sudden centrality of popular sovereignty. And the government? For this time, coincidentally, no armor but "he has returned to the Chamber". New course or hypocrisy? For the opposition it is the certain refusal of "direct responsibility".
Meloni, the ESM and "that mistake by Conte"
In the press conference at the end of the year (postponed until the threshold of the Epiphany), the leader of FdI at the helm of the government brings up Giuseppe Conte and with a question he places full responsibility on him for the green light for the state-saving fund: "A mistake". It was 2021, in the midst of the pandemic crisis. The M5S leader was staying at Palazzo Chigi when the changes to the ESM were negotiated in Europe and Italy signed the reform treaty within the Eurogroup. But there was also a government crisis underway: the one that would have ferried the country from the helmsman Conte to the power-driven executive Draghi. Since then, those changes have never been ratified by deputies and senators. Nor this time - says the Prime Minister - "could I impose myself on Parliament on the basis of a superior common interest". Sure.
On the other hand, it also happened to Jacques Chirac with the European Constitution – she recalls – “but no one ever said we will make you pay and no one says it today. Italy does not have fewer rights than other countries and it has always happened that some things do not happen when they reach parliaments."
“We need to understand why Conte gave the green light without there being a majority – Meloni continues – so I think it was a mistake to sign the amendment to the treaty, knowing that there was no majority in Parliament”. Perhaps - it is the comment of the Prime Minister who clings to the reaction of the markets by defining it aware – “the failure to ratify such an obsolete instrument can become an opportunity to transform it into something more effective”. Perhaps.
