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Pd, Schlein's countermaneuver: «With us healthcare spending at 7%»

The Democratic secretary relaunches the proposal for a countermaneuver and attacks the Meloni government on health, school and energy

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At the national assembly of the Democratic Party in Rome, secretary Elly Schlein proposed bringing health spending to the European average of 7% and attacked the Meloni government on energy, education and economic reforms.

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The Italian political debate focuses on counter-maneuvers and differences between the government and the opposition on economic and social matters.

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"We have presented a bill to bring healthcare spending to the European average of 7 percent." If the centre-right forces win "they will bring military spending to 5% of GDP" but "if we win we must commit" to bringing health spending to 7% "together with the entire progressive alliance". Elly Schlein outlines the outlines of what appears to all intents and purposes to be a counter-maneuver to the one the Government is preparing when speaking to the national assembly of the Democratic Party in Rome.

«The squares ask politicians to take responsibility for concrete choices for those who study, work and produce. The government is ignoring these voices. It was the longest-running and inconclusive government, Meloni wasted a historic opportunity" said Schlein, attacking the government. According to the PD secretary, the prime minister "has not managed to make a" reform "that would concretely change the lives of Italians for the better, who today are poorer and more angry in the streets than yesterday".

The secretary of the Democratic Party also replies to the Prime Minister on the energy front: «What has happened in recent days deserves a joke. The Meloni government did its utmost to sell a blow from the EU commission as a victory. Today it finds itself doing what we have been asking for since April, the cap on the price of gas. Since Meloni attacked me saying that it took me too many days to respond to his attacks, if he had responded six months ago we would have avoided a bloodletting of Italian families."

«We need an Italy that begins to believe and invest in public schools again as the first place of social emancipation. A social elevator that we must be able to restart because it is broken and it is suffocating inside. The school is open to all, article 34 of our Constitution says so. I say this because Meloni said that he doesn't understand what the banner hung by young people and children that says "No one is a foreigner here" means, I want to explain it to him. It means that in the classes we don't see Italians and foreigners but girls and boys."

Schlein also goes on the attack on the front of the lack of (in his opinion) simplifications: «I was struck by Giorgia Meloni who said in the Chamber that they put so much effort into simplification: no one noticed. They messed up Industry 4.0 which was working very well, they didn't implement the opposition's proposal to extend the single authorization on the Zes model for investments in the ecological and digital transition."