"I will supervise the composition of the lists and for now I accept to cover the role of head of the coalition and I will commit myself to the success of this operation". Thus Mario Monti during a press conference in the Senate, after the meeting with the leaders of centrist parties and movements who support his agenda.
The neo-centrist forces that gather around the Monti agenda aim at an evolution of Italian politics: «We believe - outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti argued during his press conference in the Senate - that Italy must have an evolution in politics. The traditional axis which consists of the right and the left has historical, symbolic and even substantial value - for some issues such as those of the distribution of wealth - but does not highlight the real axis that Italy needs, the one that points to Europe and to reforms by enabling Italy to influence the course of things in Europe". According to Monti, "it is not an attempt to cover a center position between a left and a right, it is not an attempt to insert itself between two poles of a bipolar system whose limits have been evident in recent years", but a commitment to "break barriers, introduce new criteria for the aggregation of politics and civil society, to identify who is willing to commit to reforms overcoming the resistance of corporations and lobbies and archaic forms of trade unionism, while trade unionism in general - he specified - is a value". .
"In the Senate there will be a single list, provisionally called the Monti Agenda for Italy, I don't know if it will be a definitive name". Prime Minister Mario Monti said it in the press conference in the Senate, at the end of the neo-centrist summit. In the Chamber, however, a federation of acronyms. I am not the man of Providence”, said Monti.
Piero Ichino was also present at the meeting between Mario Monti and the centrists. It was the professor himself who confirmed it during a press conference. "Luca Cordero di Montezemolo wasn't there - explained Monti - but there were two representatives of Italia Futura and the PDL representative at Ppe Mauro Mauro".
«The initiative is the one I announced on 23 December at the press conference, it is not an initiative against this or against that, it is an initiative to prolong over time, step up and extend the objectives of that mode of governance which has allowed in the last year to face the serious financial emergency". Mario Monti said it at the press conference.
A meeting initially scheduled in the headquarters of the Sant'Egidio community, in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, but which at the last moment was diverted to a place away from prying eyes, notebooks and cameras. According to some rumors, the seat was the house of a monsignor. With Mario Monti were Pier Ferdinando Casini (UDC), Benedetto Della Vedova (FLI), Linda Lanzillotta (Gruppo Misto), the head of the delegation of the PDL within the PPE in the European Parliament Mario Mauro, representatives of ACLI and Italy Futura, the association of Luca di Montezemolo. Not Montezemolo who is on holiday in the Maldives. With them also the ministers Andrea Riccardi, Corrado Passera and Enzo Moavero Milanesi.
A summit that lasted about four hours. In addition to the lists, reports a source present at the meeting, the heartfelt request launched by the guests to Monti to apply personally was the one that held the court. To run, putting your face and name, through Palazzo Chigi. With your presence - this is the reasoning that was submitted to the prime minister - there would be no need for other symbols and lists.
The neo-centrist forces that gather around the Monti agenda aim at an evolution of Italian politics: «We believe - outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti argued during his press conference in the Senate - that Italy must have an evolution in politics. The traditional axis which consists of the right and the left has historical, symbolic and even substantial value - for some issues such as those of the distribution of wealth - but does not highlight the real axis that Italy needs, the one that points to Europe and to reforms by enabling Italy to influence the course of things in Europe". According to Monti, "it is not an attempt to cover a center position between a left and a right, it is not an attempt to insert itself between two poles of a bipolar system whose limits have been evident in recent years", but a commitment to "break barriers, introduce new criteria for the aggregation of politics and civil society, to identify who is willing to commit to reforms overcoming the resistance of corporations and lobbies and archaic forms of trade unionism, while trade unionism in general - he specified - is a value". .
"In the Senate there will be a single list, provisionally called the Monti Agenda for Italy, I don't know if it will be a definitive name". Prime Minister Mario Monti said it in the press conference in the Senate, at the end of the neo-centrist summit. In the Chamber, however, a federation of acronyms. I am not the man of Providence”, said Monti.
Piero Ichino was also present at the meeting between Mario Monti and the centrists. It was the professor himself who confirmed it during a press conference. "Luca Cordero di Montezemolo wasn't there - explained Monti - but there were two representatives of Italia Futura and the PDL representative at Ppe Mauro Mauro".
«The initiative is the one I announced on 23 December at the press conference, it is not an initiative against this or against that, it is an initiative to prolong over time, step up and extend the objectives of that mode of governance which has allowed in the last year to face the serious financial emergency". Mario Monti said it at the press conference.
A meeting initially scheduled in the headquarters of the Sant'Egidio community, in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, but which at the last moment was diverted to a place away from prying eyes, notebooks and cameras. According to some rumors, the seat was the house of a monsignor. With Mario Monti were Pier Ferdinando Casini (UDC), Benedetto Della Vedova (FLI), Linda Lanzillotta (Gruppo Misto), the head of the delegation of the PDL within the PPE in the European Parliament Mario Mauro, representatives of ACLI and Italy Futura, the association of Luca di Montezemolo. Not Montezemolo who is on holiday in the Maldives. With them also the ministers Andrea Riccardi, Corrado Passera and Enzo Moavero Milanesi.
A summit that lasted about four hours. In addition to the lists, reports a source present at the meeting, the heartfelt request launched by the guests to Monti to apply personally was the one that held the court. To run, putting your face and name, through Palazzo Chigi. With your presence - this is the reasoning that was submitted to the prime minister - there would be no need for other symbols and lists.
