«Including the Leps in the maneuver is a profoundly wrong choice. Parliament is once again stripped of its authority, as it cannot discuss issues of great constitutional importance: the Lep are included in the budget, but without any real financial coverage. It’s not the only vulnerability. The right to health is trampled upon, with zero concrete measures for the drama of Italian healthcare, and the right to education is trampled upon, with 900 million cuts to public schools in the coming years. Yet there is money for private schools, with vouchers of up to 1500 euros. Our amendments, also aimed at implementing digital education, were rejected.” Thus the M5S senator Barbara Floridia speaking in the Chamber.
“A maneuver that ignores young people.” The Bridge? “He can’t stand”
«The maneuver ignores young people, considered either ‘poor communists’ or ‘daddy’s boys’, as Anna Maria Bernini and Giorgia Meloni say. Due to political inability, resources were freed from the Strait Bridge project, which in itself is already unsustainable: we asked to divert them to school buildings or infrastructures in Calabria and Sicily, but here too the response was a resounding refusal. The bridge is not a work for the country, but an instrument of propaganda and advantages for a few friends. In the chaos and difficulties of this maneuver, the only certainty is that the Italians can no longer take it, despite the megaphone of information that supports the government. On this front, RAI, occupied by the government, is also suffering cuts. With Mediaset, owner of Forza Italia, and the press in the hands of Angelucci for the League, the propaganda continues unabated. Yesterday Baglioni said something beautiful: the Senate is like a theater, seen by all the Italian people. So, be careful when you stage a farce or a tragedy: this maneuver is both.”