Meloni-oppositions table, appeal for unity. In the afternoon technical meeting on the alarm management protocol

The opposition leaders at Palazzo Chigi for the meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, called "to share available information and take stock of the complex picture of alarms and reports recorded in recent days, also in relation to hacker activities". Also at the center of the table are "reports of alleged bombs in schools". Yesterday's events involved around six thousand Italian schools, reached by anonymous emails with threats of attacks, causing evacuations, checks and moments of strong concern. Meloni excludes concrete dangers but points the finger at 'a strategy aimed at sowing chaos'.

Deputy Prime Ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini also participated in the meeting at Palazzo Chigi. According to what was learned from some participants in the meeting, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made an appeal for unity to all political forces at the end of her speech at the table.

"The discussion is good but it must continue in the appropriate forums which are Parliament and Copasir. We as the opposition are fully available to collaborate in the face of threats aimed at destabilizing the country and creating alarm, but no to blank delegations to the government with respect to the decisions it will take. Today we have not had specific proposals", said the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein at the end of the meeting. "We need to reverse" the trend "of cuts to cybersecurity. And we have proposed to shift a part of the resources foreseen for weapons systems to cybersecurity", he added.

During the table with the opposition leaders at Palazzo Chigi, according to centre-left sources, Meloni explained that the meeting is not a substitute for information to the Chambers. Yesterday several members of the centre-left had asked for Parliament to be informed about the bomb scares.

The Prime Minister "told us that they are working on protocols in the face of" mail bombing "situations to decide whether to evacuate or not", explained Action leader Carlo Calenda.

"It was a very good meeting in terms of method, not so good in terms of substance. Faced with a very serious alarm on cybersecurity, however, another type of reaction would be needed", said the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi as he left Palazzo Chigi. "How has the money been spent so far? Yesterday it was an alarm that could be resolved with a good antivirus. Instead of spending money on Paragon to spy on journalists, let's buy some antivirus. To Meloni we say choose who governs this matter".

"There is maximum willingness to collaborate but it cannot be our responsibility today, as we do not have departments and ministries under us: the burden of making proposals is not ours but they must come from the government, we will evaluate the effectiveness", said M5S leader Giuseppe Conte leaving Palazzo Chigi. "There is no distinction between the majority and the opposition" in these cases "yesterday the country was blocked by email. We cannot afford it. We must distinguish cyber attacks and cybersecurity which we need to work on. I took the liberty of urging the government to hurry. But we need to distinguish the situations. We need protocols".