The Italian National Unity Executive, chaired by Mario Draghi, in which formations from the entire parliamentary arc are integrated, will not be repeated after the elections scheduled for next year, the leaders of two of its main parties, Enrico Letta (of the Democratic Party PD, centre-left) and Matteo Salvini (of the far-right League).
“We are in an absolutely unprecedented and unique alliance that will never be repeated,” said Letta about the heterogeneous government majority, which also includes the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the conservative Forza Italia (FI) and which was created in February 2021 around the figure of Draghi to overcome a very delicate moment due to the pandemic and the management of the millionaire European funds granted to the country.
“These broad agreements with Salvini, with the League, with the rightists, are for us something exceptional that will not be repeated,” insisted the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) at a rally on the occasion of the municipal elections that will be held next weekend. weekdays in some localities of the country, according to the Efe news agency.
According to Letta, “the government of broad agreement ends with this Parliament. After the next general elections, the citizens will decide the majority and we aspire to have a center-left one that can govern the country according to a reformist and progressive project.”
Salvini was also blunt about the impossibility of governing again with the PD in an electoral act of his party: “The Executive of national responsibility is not a possibility in 2023”, and stressed that with the PD “there will be no more governments”.
“We have accepted these months of sacrifice for the country. But being in government with someone who insults you every day” is not easy, Salvini explained, adding: “When (the President of the Republic, Sergio) Mattarella asked us, For the good of the country, that we unite and get Italy out of the pandemic, we said ‘I obey’ because we are not used to fleeing.”
But in the next general elections, “we will support a center-right coalition with ideas very different from those of the left,” Salvini added, alluding to the alliance he has with Silvio Berlusconi’s FI and the far-right Brothers of Italy (FDI), led by Giorgia Meloni, the only parliamentary opposition party.
The declarations of Letta and Salvini are framed in the municipal elections, but also in the legislative ones, since the parties have begun to show their distinctive projects, which is making the differences in the Italian Government more and more evident and these tensions are making it difficult approval of essential measures for Italy to receive European funds.
