Schlein attacks Vannacci and the government: "Run to the right damages Italians"

"In the meantime, since Vannacci is in these parts, I would suggest he go and visit Dongo to remember the end of the story for which they seem so nostalgic." The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein said this on the sidelines of the L'altra Cernobbio event promoted by the left in conjunction with the Teha Forum, responding to those who asked him for a comment on Mario Monti's concerns about the Futuro Nazionale programme.

"In the end it was an escape, hidden, like cowards, after having devastated the country, after having stained the country with the dictatorship, with the deportations, with the racial laws, with the collaboration with Hitler - he concluded -. You just need to know the history".

"The problem here is one: it is that in this race to the right between Meloni, Salvini and Vannacci, the ones who pay the bill are the Italians. Because it's not like Vannacci says different things from what Meloni and Salvini said before going to government and the Italians have an excellent demonstration of where those ideas lead." This was said by PD secretary Elly Schlein when she arrived at the Altra Cernobbio event promoted by the left-wing association Sbilanciamoci as a counterpoint to the Teha Forum held in Villa d'Este.

"Four years later we are worse off, because we have an economy that is at a standstill, we have zero growth despite the investments of the Pnrr - he added -, we have three years in a row of decline in industrial production. Yesterday 2,500 letters of dismissal arrived to workers from the former Silva related industries, at the same time yesterday Electrolux confirmed 1,450 redundancies and the closure of the plant in Cerreto d'Esi". "In the face of all this, what has the government done other than propaganda in recent years? It hasn't done a shred of industrial policy, it hasn't done anything to increase the wages of Italians which are among the lowest in Europe and it hasn't done anything to lower bills which in fact are the highest in Europe - he concluded -. So this is the result of where this unbridled chase to the right is leading. We are busy building an alternative together with the other progressive forces that puts the concrete needs of Italians back at the centre. from public health, which must be defended from the cuts they are carrying out, to school, education, research, innovation, industrial policies worthy of the name. While Meloni is intent on self-celebration, who is responsible for the problems of Italians?".