Italy's new government wins confidence vote in senate
Max Civili
Press TV, Rome
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-leaning government won a confidence vote in the Senate after going through the same procedure in the lower house on Tuesday.
Meloni has presented her programme, setting out policy for the full five-year legislative term.
On Wednesday, Italy's new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni won a confidence vote in the senate with 115 in favor, 79 against and 5 abstensions.
The new executive can now get down to business. Meloni, aged 45, is the leader and one of the founders of Brothers of Italy, the party that spearheaded a right-wing coalition to victory in Italy's last month's election.
During Tuesday's first speech in the chamber of deputies, Meloni had presented her political programme which aims, as a priority, to counter soaring energy bills and a looming recession. Among the main measures to take away are plans to introduce tax cuts, lift limits on cash transactions, taxing the excess profits of the energy giants in a windfall tax, and reallocating some of the EU pandemic recovery funds.
Also on Wednesday, Meloni went on saying that Italy will remain an active member of the EU on her watch and that it would continue to be a reliable partner of NATO in supporting Ukraine. Italy's new prime minister said that the only way to facilitate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is helping Kiev to defend itself militarily.
Meloni's two main allies, media magnate Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini are long-time admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin. US embassy chargè d'Affaires attended in person the confidence vote on the Giorgia Meloni new government at the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. Some fear Meloni could embark on a course of confrontation towards the western alliance.
Back in 2016 Meloni defined the EU as “rotten to its core”, while in 2014 Italy's new prime minister staunchly opposed sanctions against Moscow following its annexation of Crimea.
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