VIDEO | European elections, Manfredonia (Acli): “Vote for the Europe of rights, openness and peace”

The president of the ACLI, Emiliano Manfredonia, in the interview given to the Dire agency

ROME – “Europe is an idea that has changed the world. There are many belligerent countries that have found themselves together, first on economic issues, then on freedom and have found a way of building peace. A peace obtained in a laborious but lasting, beautiful and participatory way” says the president of the Acli, Emiliano Manfredonia, in the interview given to the Dire agency, and continues: “A Europe that has given citizens the opportunity to have a single currency to travel between countries without great difficulty, this is the Europe that we want. The Europe of rights, of welfare, not the Europe that closes the borders, which fuels wars, but which is closer to the people but which at the same time represents a realizable idea, this is the Europe that we aim to have and we invite everyone to vote” concludes the president of the ACLI. p>

“We are against the premiership, it modifies the anti-fascist Constitution”

The combination of the two reforms desired by the Government, the Premiership and Differentiated Autonomy, “totally changes the anti-fascist Constitution that exists in Italy” underlines the national president of the ACLI, Emiliano Manfredonia, and continues: “The issue of the premiership is not a matter of governing better. Today the prime minister has the powers, indeed the government has in fact also assumed legislative power, given the use of emergency decrees over the last 20 years who ousted Parliament would therefore be to put Parliament back at the centre, not empty it again and also not empty the powers of the President of the Republic”.

“Putting the Prime Minister and Parliament in the same vote – continues Manfredonia – having a Prime Minister voted together with Parliament would mean that the former, once in power, would decide the life, death and miracles of the latter and this is not acceptable. The justification that a Prime Minister would then have more powers to improve people’s lives is truly trivial”.

“We immediately took a stand against differentiated autonomy. It is a reform that would create great division. We objectively don’t like these two reforms, at least as they are”, concludes the national president of the ACLI.