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The creation of EU humanitarian corridors for migrants fleeing their country and the creation of integration plans will be two of the objectives of the migrant that the new Italian government will pursue, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in his report. Monday speech. before the Chamber of Deputies. The issue of migrants was one of the points cited by the Prime Minister during his appearance Monday morning for the vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies. Without this vote and without the vote that the Senate must vote on Tuesday, the government can not carry out its duties.

In the House, after several hours of debate, the "Conte bis" government won 343 votes in favor, against 263 opposites. As a result of the alliance between the Five-Star Movement (M5S) and the Democratic Party (PD, center left), the new government was named "Conte bis" because it was also Prime Minister of the United States. previous alliance between the M5S and the far right League. whose chief, the former Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, caused his fall.

Conté spoke in front of Parliament while the far right of La Liga and the Fratelli d'Italia protested in front of Parliament to insist on the need for elections and criticize the new government, inter alia because , they say, he only wants to keep his place in the country. The Parliament The protesters sometimes sang the national anthem, but also slogans such as "Duce, Duce" (referring to Benito Mussolini) and other more aggressive ones such as "Conte andate a la m … ".

In his speech, Conté also stressed the need to reform the law on the acquisition of Italian citizenship by the descendants of Italians living abroad, partly to eliminate some existing discrimination, partly to introduce new criteria, explained. With regard to foreign policy, he stressed the accession of Italy to the European Union and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) but also the fundamental relations with the United States. He also said that his government was determined to promote certain economic, monetary and banking reforms in the EU (European Union). We need to strengthen the fight against the mafias as well as the fight against tax evasion, including even jail time for big crooks, he said. He also spoke about the reform of the judiciary and the electoral system and the reduction in the number of parliamentarians, a goal that has long been pursued by the M5S. On rates or taxes, he talked about reducing them. "Everyone has to pay them but pay less," he said.

Optimism against the new government

Political scientist Emiliana De Blasio, a professor at Luiss University "Guido Carli" in Rome, talking with a group of journalists gave an overview of the current situation of the new government and its chances of survival. "The new government will get a wider vote in the House and a little less in the Senate, but I think it will get the number of votes needed to gain confidence. There are negative votes, but it is the parliamentarians who have decided to leave the M5S, "he said, referring to the representatives of the M5S who, after the rupture of the alliance with Salvini, decided to join the League.

According to the badyst, another point that this government will try to control is the "crisis of representative democracy". And this was clear, among other things because on four of the 29 points of the government program, "we talk about moderating language", which implicitly refers to the videos with sentences, sometimes very aggressive, that the former Minister Salvini spread on social networks. Salvini, leader of the far-right League, "is in a great crisis, great difficulties" after provoking the fall of the government without making him participate in elections as he wished. According to De Blasio, Salvini created problems even within the party itself, provoking criticism, in particular, of former leaders such as Roberto Maroni, former president of the Lombardy region and leader of the Northern League ( today called La Liga).

And as for the most difficult points that the new government will have to face, De Blasio said that it would certainly be immigration, because Italy wanted to change the "Dublin III Agreement" on migration signed by the European Union in 2013. among others, review the obligations of countries that host migrants from the Mediterranean – Italy and Greece in the first place, and Spain – because the world has changed. "Salvini's work on migrants – that is to say the two severe security decrees particularly condemning organizations wrecked at sea – must be discussed again, in addition to the establishment or renegotiation bilateral agreements with African countries ", De Blasio concluded, since according to the European countries, these agreements would help to control migration.