The Ministers of Public Administration and Regional Affairs leave Forza Italia after the fall of Draghi

The Minister of Regional Affairs, Mariastella Gelmini, and the Minister of Public Administration, Renatto Brunetta, announced this Friday that they are leaving their party, Forza Italia, for not supporting the acting Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, during the question of confidence held this week. in the Senate and which has finally led to the resignation of the president.

“In a dramatic moment for the country, with a war in the heart of Europe and in an unprecedented economic crisis, a pro-European and liberal political force would have chosen, without any room for dice, to stay by Draghi’s side,” he lamented. Gelmini.

Thus, he pointed out that the conservative Forza Italia “has turned its back on Italians, families, companies and productive classes, and has passed the scepter to Matteo Salvini”, leader of the far-right League.

“This Forza Italia is not the game in which I have been active for almost 25 years. I can not stay one more minute with them,” he said, according to information from the Adnkronos agency.

On the other hand, he has expressed that “he never imagined that Forza Italia and Liga would be at the same level as the 5-Star Movement” and has affirmed that “it was necessary to have the courage to put the country first and say no to populism”. “The crisis in the government has been caused by (Giuseppe) Conte and the 5-Star Movement, but I did not think that Forza Italia and Liga would be by his side to see the Draghi government fall at this time,” he insisted.

“This is a gesture of absolute irresponsibility and from which I can only distance myself. That is why I am leaving Forza Italia,” he stressed.

Brunetta has joined Gelmini and has accused the formation of “betraying history and its values”. “It is not me who is leaving but Forza Italia, or what remains of it, which is the one who has left and has denied history”, he has pointed out.

“By not voting for Draghi, my party has deviated from its founding values ​​and culture: Europeanism, liberalism and the market economy,” he said before stressing that he feels “proud to have served the country as minister in the Government” of Draghi.

In this sense, he has branded as “irresponsible” those who have “chosen partisan interests over the interests of the country at such a critical moment.” “They have sacrificed a champion like Draghi, a source of pride for Italy, in the face of the most short-sighted electoral opportunism,” she stressed.

Source: Europa Press