Premier-designate Giuseppe Conte
on Thursday set the 2020 budget as a priority for a new
government formed by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
"This is a delicate phase for the country and the budget is a
priority," he said after receiving a government formation
mandate from President Sergio Mattarella.
Conte said "I will set to work immediately for a budget that
will combat the VAT hike, safeguard savers, give a solid
prospect of growth and social development".
Conte said "Italy must be a reference country in the
protection of people with disabilities, that doesn't leave with
experience be lost abroad, but is an attractive country for
young people who are abroad, that sees a flourishing
Mezzogiorno. A country in which the public administration is not
permeable to corruption, a country with a fairer and more
efficient justice system where everyone, really everyone, pays
their taxes, but pays less."
Conte said "it will be a reforming season, of relaunch, hope,
that offers certainties to the country. We will work for a
better country, a country that has safe infrastructure,
efficient networks, that is fuelled by renewable energy, that
valorises common goods, that stably integrates eco-sustainable
wellbeing into its political agenda, that removes inequalities
of all types".
Conte said "we are at the dawn of a new EU legislature and we
must recoup the lost time to enable Italy to get the
protagonist's role it deserves. The country needs to proceed
swiftly" to proposing a new European Commissioner.
Conte said "it won't be a government 'against' but a
government to modernise the country and for the citizens. I will
realise a government marking novelty, it's what the political
forces are requesting too".
Conte said "very often in public interventions pronounced
hitherto I have evoked the formula of a new humanism, I have
never thought it was a slogan of a government, but the ideal
horizon of the country".
Conte said "in the next few days I will return (to President
Mattarella) to drop my reservations (on forming a new
government) and "in the case of a positive outcome (of talks
with parties), to propose the list of ministers".
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