Superbonus criminale: l’ex ministro Tria avvelena Conte, il governo avrebbe dovuto rianimarlo

Giuseppe Conte, leader of the Five Star Movement, did not take well the interview with former Minister of Economy, Giovanni Tria, who had called the Superbonus “subversive and criminal” in La Stampa. As a guest on the TV show Accordi&Disaccordi, the former Prime Minister had strong words for the economist who had been part of his first government: “He needed to be pushed and encouraged when it came to planning growth measures. He has never been a lion-hearted person.” Conte then responds to the repeated accusations from the Meloni government about the damage caused by the Superbonus to public finances, stating that “there is no budget hole, otherwise many people, including ministers from the previous government, would have to be arrested. So, it’s nonsense: a Prime Minister, before speaking in these terms, can certainly look for a scapegoat, but should not say foolish things, because then the financial markets will kill you.”

Regarding the war in Ukraine, Conte reiterates his pacifist position and his opposition to sending military aid to Kiev: “Is it realistic to be at Palazzo Chigi now and say we no longer send weapons? Absolutely yes. Yes, it would be realistic. It would have been realistic from the very beginning to say to all allies: ‘Gentlemen, Italy, due to its tradition and capacity for dialogue, will help the entire coalition. We will be the frontman, the front country for the negotiating breakthrough. I would have positioned myself from the beginning as the leader of those negotiations with our capacity, our tradition of dialogue, which we also have with Russia’.” So, if Conte were Prime Minister today, he would not send weapons? The Five Star leader insists: “Absolutely not.”

Regarding the immigration emergency, while today Palazzo Chigi often finds itself at odds with Paris and Berlin on the issue of migration flows and reception, Conte recalls that in his governments it would never have happened that “France and Germany did not collaborate on redistribution. Because while Salvini was talking on TV and flexing his muscles on migrants, I was working.” From the beginning of his work in government, Conte recalls, “I demonstrated a certain consistency and credibility in pursuing a migration policy that was not based on Salvini’s slogans. In Europe, we must be consistent: you cannot say that the Poles and the Hungarians are doing well when they oppose redistribution. Yesterday there was a meeting on the management of migration flows between the Interior Ministers on a regulation that provided for automatic redistribution of migrants. Our Minister Piantedosi was left dumbfounded because the Hungarians and the Poles had rejected it. It reminds me a lot of Salvini, who during my government hardly ever attended the Internal Affairs Committees. Results were achieved through the work that was done, not by making statements in front of the cameras.”

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