Tractors in revolt, Meloni and Lollo in chaos: too much amnesia and too much hypocrisy after the flop of the embrace of Coldiretti

Faced with the spread of the tractor revolt, Meloni government he no longer knows which way to turn. Lollo, Italy's brother-in-law and Minister of Agriculture, thought that a big embrace from the Government and the Brothers of Italy with the powerful Coldiretti of Ettore Prandini, the son of the controversial former Forlan minister of the DC, to keep the protest at bay and consolidate the power of the right in the countryside. But it didn't go that way, because among the various souls of the farmers' protest, who are threatening the march on Rome, there are those who increasingly say that the blame for the malaise in the countryside lies not only with Europe but also with the Meloni Government. The prime minister initially tried to distance herself from European agricultural policy but there was no shortage of people who reminded her that the CAP (community agricultural policy) 2023-2027 was approved by all the centre-right forces, including the Brothers of Italy and the League. Then Meloni tried to demonstrate that her government had "done everything possible" to accommodate farmers. But her numbers proved her wrong. First of all, you were proven wrong on the promise to increase the Pnrr allocated to agriculture from 5 to 8 billion because, as the political journalist of Il Sole 24 Ore acutely pointed out, Lina Palmerini, that money was already foreseen by the new Pnrr "reviewed and stamped by Brussels" without any increase. But it is on the tightening of the Irpef paid by Italian farmers that the donkey falls. In the budget, the Government had rejected the extension of tax breaks for 400 thousand agricultural producers which alone costs between 230 and 250 million. Now, like the From the Leyen on pesticides, Meloni and Lollobrigida would like to back down but they don't know how to find the money to compensate for the waiver of the increase inPersonal income tax paid by farmers. The public budget is crying, the money is not there and the Mef resists. Worse than that, Italy's brothers-in-law couldn't handle the tractor revolt: both of them fell from the tower.