Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meets journalists after the Council of Ministers that established the abolition of the car tax for small and medium-sized cars and motorcycles. Sitting next to her are the Vice Presidents of the Council Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini and the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti. She claims an important achievement for the government. But the meeting with reporters is also an opportunity to review the central topics of the political agenda. Starting with the position she takes on Roberto Vannacci. The Prime Minister is emphatic: «I heard Vannacci say that alliances are made based on respecting commitments made to citizens.
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I point out that we are talking about a party made up of parliamentarians elected in the center-right who today are in a party that votes with the opposition. When this happens once, it can happen a second time as well. For me, it is always much more important to win to govern than to win not to govern. This is the issue that interests me». Going into the details of the measure adopted yesterday, she explains: «We have decided to structurally abolish the tax for small and medium power cars, which are over 70% of those in circulation. Added to these are motorcycles». Meloni reiterates: «We have chosen to continue our work of tax cuts». And clarifies: «The proceeds from the tax go to the Regions but clearly we are not enacting a measure that someone else has to pay for: we will transfer to the Regions the share of resources that represents a lost revenue for them». And here she takes a jab at the opposition: «While others talk about wealth taxes, we remove a property tax. We have chosen to transform part of the resources used so far against high fuel prices into a simple and structural measure». On the intervention for fuels, she emphasizes: «We foresee for another week the cut of excise duties on diesel of 10 cents per liter» and then «until October 5» a cut of 5 cents, specifying that «on October 5 it does not go to zero because the mobile excise system intervenes».
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On the electoral reform, then, the Prime Minister announces that she will ask for a vote of confidence: «When the preference amendment did not pass in the Chamber, in the last passage, I heard from many that the government did not have the confidence of Parliament and the Chambers». Then, she adds «I believe it is a matter of clarity to put confidence in a law that has preferences within it». It is «a law from which those who win the elections benefit», who must have «an investiture from the citizens and having the mandate from the citizens makes the difference». On the future of the executive, she says: «As long as I have a solid majority I intend to govern. And it seems to me that my colleagues agree with me», obtaining obvious confirmation from the vice presidents of the council. Meloni assures: «I want to reach the end of the legislature».
Chapter Ukraine. Italy, Meloni explains, «continues to have a clear position». On Salvini’s meeting with the Russian ambassador: «It was born as a meeting with companies that work in Russia and it is the most natural thing in the world… Nothing particularly strange». Then she defines Moscow’s provocations as «a sort of nervousness». Later, speaking on Rete 4, in the program “20 minuti” hosted by Nicola Porro, she focuses on Ceuta. «Currently the issue is not resolved… “I hope to resolve the Ceuta issue soon”, which means that the problems remain. I have nothing against Spain, border controls are not reinstated as an initiative done against someone». Therefore «some statements by the Spanish government frankly seem a bit unbalanced to me».
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