A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #203 - Two-faced Meloni and the inconsistent opposition (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Having absorbed the trauma of the regional elections, the government is 
navigating the choppy waters of finalizing the budget law. The strategic 
choice to approve a rigorous and austere budget this year, aimed at 
ensuring that the public deficit falls below the 3% of GDP threshold and 
the country emerges from the infringement proceedings, is instrumental 
in allowing the government to create the conditions for next year's 
pre-election budget, based on debt, that will distribute benefits to the 
classes, groups, and categories of voters who make up the segment of the 
electorate that supports it.
The 2026 budget was tabled two months ago to allow Parliament to amend 
it. However, the Minister of Finance presented an amendment to the 
Budget Committee that modifies both the overall scope of the measure, 
with an expected increase in spending of approximately EUR3.5 billion, 
and the sources of funding-that is, the manner in which those increased 
resources are intended to be recouped. This amendment calls for drawing 
on pensions, considering pensioners unproductive and therefore extending 
their working hours, ignoring vested rights such as the calculation of 
years of university education redeemed, and postponing the payment dates 
for the first salaries by six months.

As was inevitable, a heated controversy developed, even within the 
majority, which led to the amendment being withdrawn and matters once 
again at sea, pending the government's reformulation of its proposed 
amendment after finding new budget items to finance the new planned 
expenditure. Other amendments, such as the one regarding mandatory 
solidarity among condominium owners, which forced them to pay for those 
in arrears, were also withdrawn amid widespread protests.
The superficiality and incompetence demonstrated by this political 
class, however, are not enough to cause a government crisis. The 
government is characterized by absolute inertia, limiting itself to 
cosmetic initiatives and waging symbolic battles, such as the 
unnecessary separation of the careers of judges and prosecutors, a 
measure that has no impact on the functioning of the justice system and 
is of no interest to the population.
In the real world, the real problems are not being addressed: waiting 
lists for medical appointments persist and grow, and patients, who can 
increasingly afford it, are forced to resort to private healthcare, 
paying exorbitant prices. The result is that approximately six million 
citizens have stopped seeking treatment. Poverty and indigence are 
growing, and an equally large number of people cannot even afford two 
decent meals a day or secure housing. Wages and pensions are 
increasingly losing purchasing power, and household savings are 
declining at a worrying rate. The situation is exacerbated by the fact 
that these two categories of people often coincide.
All this is happening while the government devotes most of its limited 
resources to monumental projects like the bridge over the Strait of 
Messina. This expenditure has been contested by the Court of Auditors 
for its exorbitant costs, its unreliable technical characteristics, and 
the lack of a road and rail network upstream and downstream that could 
benefit from the project. The only budget item that is increasing is the 
purchase of weapons, the so-called defense sector, which should boost 
the economy by developing this sector, while other productive sectors 
are in crisis and are being dismantled and closed, with production 
assets like steelworks, essential even for those who want to invest in 
rearmament, being shut down.
The country's real emergencies-healthcare, education, training, justice, 
the structures and personnel that should allow these sectors to 
function-are being left to their own devices and deprived of necessary 
funding, anticipating the policy of dismantling the welfare system that 
accompanies the country's rearmament.
The governing right-wing majority reaps the greatest political benefits 
from the "normalization" of society, repressing, dismantling every 
social structure, targeting gathering places, and criminalizing dissent, 
aided by the adoption of war rhetoric that allows it to suppress even 
the most minimally critical voice. The right-wing party evens the score 
by liquidating social centers one by one, supporting speculation by 
evicting tenants unwanted by their landlords or squatters desperate for 
housing because they lack a home and income.
At the same time, cronyism and nepotism of the worst kind are emerging 
and gaining ground in the management of the country's cultural, social, 
and economic structures under the jurisdiction of the state. These 
structures are increasingly managed in a partisan manner and transformed 
into income for individuals characterized by the loyalty that binds them 
to power.

The Government and International Politics

While domestically, the government is committed to upholding the values 
of fascist nationalism, revisited in light of the most current 
sovereignist policies, and advocates the country's transformation into a 
democracy (see Prime Ministership), in foreign policy, it has been 
characterized by a touch of Americanism, seen as the key to its access 
to power and the trust of the US hegemon to maintain it. This explains 
Meloni's fawning behavior at Biden's feet, her subservience to the 
policy of supporting Israel in its attempt to exterminate the 
Palestinians, and her support for Ukraine, which is used as evidence of 
Atlanticism.
Trump's rise to power and his "entente cordiale" policy with Russia, 
internal divisions within the majority, and Salvini's threats to the 
Prime Minister's electorate have forced the Prime Minister to gradually 
change course and to subsequently distance herself from the alliances 
built in Europe, intermittently supporting the failed administration of 
the current Commission President.
The complete subservience to the foreign policy of Ursula von der Stupid 
and Kretina Kaja Kallas and the community entourage that supports them 
has led the Meloni government to increasingly distance itself from the 
"willing" group, culminating in the rift on December 18th that allowed 
the rejection of the suicidal proposal to use Russian assets, allowing 
the path of incurring community debt to prevail, while awaiting a 
solution to disengage, in the knowledge that the country, and especially 
its electorate, is opposed to sacrificing itself and dying for Ukraine 
in the war against Russia. Evidence of this strategy is the attempt to 
transform aid into electricity generators to cope with the Russian 
destruction of power plants, rather than weapons.
This choice, skillfully exploited by the prime minister in front of her 
electorate, strengthens her hold, also because on the opposition front, 
a short-sighted leadership subservient to the long-standing directives 
of the US Democrats constantly and stubbornly continues to push the 
narrative of Ukraine as a victim of the invasion of the Russian bear. 
They fail to grasp the complexity of the Ukrainian question, the impact 
on public opinion of the corruption prevalent in Kiev, which contrasts 
with the financial effort required to support the cause, and they 
underestimate the electorate's ability to evaluate the convenience and 
interest of maintaining economic relations with Russia and, above all, 
restoring energy purchases.
If in the strategy of the Democratic Party leaders, unconditional 
Atlanticism was useful and necessary and constituted the key to 
legitimizing access to government now, given the new orientation of US 
policy towards Europe, this requirement could be bypassed.
The problem is that the Democratic Party is burdened by a mass of 
unspeakable individuals, belonging to the so-called reformist wing, who 
were deployed by the Secretary to run for the European Union, in the 
hope and belief that in that position they would do less harm. The fact 
is that these individuals constitute filthy scum, enemies of 
constitutional freedom and freedom of thought, a carcinogenic offshoot 
of the former US Democrats who are now in total crisis.

Furthermore, after the discovery of the Ukrainian oligarchs' goldmines, 
purchased with the proceeds of bribes on war supplies, one wonders how 
the scams could have functioned without accomplices in Brussels, which 
raises legitimate questions about the sincerity of their support for the 
Ukrainian cause.
There are many reasons why the Democratic Party should undertake a 
profound reflection to revise its foreign policy stance, especially 
regarding the war in Ukraine, also acknowledging that servility to the 
US is no longer essential for accessing government and that a minimum of 
dignity can be aspired to in the country's best interests.
Nor would a review of foreign policy be enough, because it is necessary 
to reflect deeply on the consequences of supporting rearmament, which is 
antithetical and contrary to the increased funding of welfare that 
sometimes seems to be of interest to the Democratic Party and the 
reformist left that aspires to be an alternative to the current government.
The parties that claim to want to oppose the Meloni government and are 
running to replace it in the country's best interests should be 
explained that it's not enough for the governing parties to make 
reckless choices, or even more cunningly, to make no decisions at all so 
as not to displease anyone and to rely on laissez-faire to maintain the 
support of the remaining electorate that still goes to the polls. They 
also need a clear and credible program that allows voters to identify 
with those proposals and decide to go to the polls to support them, 
because they make a difference.
Without these methodological choices, it's impossible to address the new 
economic phase and the new international order, to help restore the 
ability of European peoples to maintain and develop their standard of 
living in a world that has become multipolar, in which competition must 
become peaceful cooperation to avoid a nuclear conflict that would be 
definitive and devastating.
That said, we may be permitted to doubt that this can happen, given the 
fact that too much personalism, too much opportunistic behavior, and too 
many vested interests populate and infect the political class, which in 
our country has become an oligarchic group of individuals who live a 
life separate from the citizens and are distinguished by their stupidity 
and ignorance.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/12/23/meloni-bifronte-e-lopposizione-inconsistente/
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