Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday said
centre-right government coalition members have different
identities but find unity and cohesiveness in their commitment
to stay together.
Addressing in a video message the national assembly of a
centrist coalition member, the Noi Moderati party, Meloni said
"our coalition certainly includes different political forces,
each with their identity and history, which are an added value,
and what makes us strong and cohesive is the willingness, the
desire to stay together, which is what allows us to always find
a synthesis and a meeting point".
The premier stressed that "we are united by the same basic
vision of the world", "we believe in the same values", "we have
compatible ideas" and "we mean to fundamentally push forward the
same projects".
The ruling centre-right coalition has been shaken by tensions
between the centre-right post Berlusconi Forza (FI) party and
the right-wing League party, including over a Rai state
broadcaster license fee cut and the healthcare system in
Calabria this past week.
FI and the League are two of the three main partners in the
right wing alliance that swept to victory in the September 2022
general election, spearheaded by the right-wing Brothers of
Italy (FdI) party of Italy's first woman premier, Giorgia
Meloni.
Relations between FI and the League have grown a little tense
after the party founded by late three-time ex-premier and media
mogul Silvio Berlusconi overtook the League in opinion polls, at
about 9% to 8%, and the League went on to underperform in recent
regional elections in Liguria, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna.
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