Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney, in an interview on the show “Agorà” on Rai 3, talks again about the relationship with her 7-year-old daughter Ginevra, which she had from her relationship with her ex-partner Andrea Giambruno, and how how it affects its institutional role.

“I will give up the leadership of the nation when I realize that I no longer have the unanimity of Italians. This is what I try to do as best as possible, but you have to know that you are doing it for someone and that someone believes in it with you. And I couldn’t do it anymore if I didn’t have the freedom to influence: I need to know I’m making a difference. And there’s only one person in the world who could convince me to quit, my daughter Ginevra, if I realized she’s paying a high price price. But she is a smart, strong and understanding little girl and we are doing everything we can to not get lost in this storm,” said Giorgia Maloney, according to La Stampa.

“I would quit and leave running the nation when I realize I don’t have support anymore because it’s not a life you can live without a mind, it’s not something you do for yourself. Or at least not for me. I met someone who said, “When you see how it is…” Now that I see it, it’s even worse. It’s what you do, and I try to do the best I can, but you have to know that you’re doing it for someone. You need to know that someone believes with you. You can’t do that unless you have the freedom to do it the way I think it should be done. I mean the freedom to influence: no, I’m here to survive. Not everything goes perfectly, we don’t always say that we will win, but I need to know that we are changing something,” the Italian Prime Minister continued.

International meetings

Asked why she’s always on the road, Maloney explained that she tries to schedule her trips “on weekends so I don’t take up time on domestic politics,” but also that “foreign policy is domestic policy. From a physical point of view, it’s starting to have an impact.” “This year it will be particularly burdensome that Italy will be the president of the G7, but it is a great opportunity because it allows us to put priorities on the discussion table, we have not accidentally presented the topics: Africa, migration and artificial intelligence. It’s an opportunity I’m not going to pass up,” Maloney continues.

European elections and clashes with the opposition

“For me, a victory would be to confirm the votes that brought me to the Kigi Palace a year and a half ago, which is not easy, it is not often after a year and a half that the government confirms this consensus,” said the Prime Minister about the European elections in June. And therefore: the bar is set at the level of 26%. This figure is in line with the predictions of recent political polls, which show a downward trend compared to the peaks recorded immediately after taking office. Regarding the relationship with the Democratic Party leader, Maloney elaborates: “I don’t allow myself to give advice to Ellie Schlein, over the years I have seen how the left tends to demonize their opponents, when politics should be about respecting the opponent. I respect Schlein, so I hope that on the other side of the barricade, she will change this issue.”

The post of prime minister and relations with Mattarella

Allegedly, the attempt to “hide behind the good will of the president of the republic” in order to attack the prime minister “cannot stand, because this constitutional reform, in any case, will enter into force in the next parliament. Practically, before the other, in 2028 . Now in 2028, I’m glad the left is taking it for granted that Georgia Maloney will be around, it’s clear they don’t look good… But in short, I would “Don’t take it for granted. And I also say: in 2028, the mandate of President Mattarella also ends, so this reform does not concern either Giorgia Maloni or Sergio Mattarella.”

The post of prime minister “does not concern the present: it is the reform of the future of the nation, and it is on this occasion that the Italians will be called upon to decide what they want to do.” Then he emphasizes: “My relationship with President Mattarella is excellent, I thank him because he always supports not so much the government as the nation. These are relationships that we manage directly, personally. I fear that those who try to compromise will be disappointed.”

Tax evasion, tax and amnesty

“Speaking of amnesties” and accusations from the left that we are “friends of the tax evaders: 2023 is a record year for the recovery of tax evasion, the Revenue Agency collected €25 billion, 4.5 billion more than before, the figures never It is recorded: now, if we, who made these figures, are friends of escapists, who was before us and did not make them, what should happen?”, said the prime minister.

And then Maloney adds: “A friendly tax system means a tax system that does not oppress families and businesses with absurd rules and unsustainable levels of taxation that do not match the level of services that are associated with tax revenues. a benevolent tax system is one that requires you to pay the right taxes and expects you to do so within a reasonable period of time, and that does not use the revenue from this taxation for useless things, but uses it on the basis of a principle that has operated well would be the head of the family”.

“I don’t accept, as I heard the leader of the Democratic Party, that health care paid for by taxes is great: I agree, but I also do not teach lessons because this government has brought the health insurance to its state. a historical maximum,” the prime minister continued. On this topic, he declares that tax revenues should be used “responsibly” and “that money should not be taken from those who did not have a house to allow those who had two to repair it for free, this is not my model.”

The problem of migrants and economic growth

“In Egypt, we met with six European leaders, including the president of the EU Commission, who went to Cairo at Italy’s suggestion. And they have adopted a new approach that we want with African countries and we should be proud that Italy Europe has accepted the offer. We started with the memorandum with Tunisia, which was criticized by the opposition, and which, on the other hand, is bearing fruit.”

In economic matters, the Italian Prime Minister stated that “objectively, last year Italy grew more than the European average, which has not happened for a very long time, this means that everything is good, no, it means that our policy gives the results are better than what we have seen so far,” Maloney said, recalling the various positive economic indicators from the OECD and ISTAT on employment, economic growth and inflation.

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