«President De Luca, I'm that "bitch" Meloni: how are you?» . With this joke Giorgia Meloni stung the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca , during the inauguration ceremony of a new sports center in Caivano . A sarcastic reference to an outburst from the President of Campania, who last February, in Rome, had called the Prime Minister a "bitch" who had advised him to "go to work instead of demonstrating".
Then, during the ceremony in the small town on the outskirts of Naples, which has risen to the forefront of the news over the years due to its links with organized crime and atrocious news events , the Prime Minister wanted to underline the efforts and investments made in favor of the community : «Although Caivano's challenge was one of my main bets, one of the government's main bets, perhaps I was not prepared this morning for the emotion and impact of the difference in what we found ourselves facing compared to a few months ago. Not only the visual impact but the message that the impact tells: the State and the institutions can make a difference, the State can maintain its commitments, the institutions can maintain their commitments", said Meloni, underlining that "here the institutions behaved as they always should."
"We will make the State win over organized crime, over degradation, over abandonment and resignation" , the Prime Minister said again, welcomed by Don Maurizio Patriciello - who in recent months had launched an appeal to the Government specifically for Caivano's redemption - adding: «Of course it is a burdensome imperative, but it is what the Italians expect from us and that is what we will do».
Another jab at De Luca and the center-left came when the Prime Minister stated that those who thought that the Government in Caivano would only take a propaganda "walk" were proven wrong.
For his part, De Luca declared: «I didn't really understand what he was referring to, I think he didn't have correct information, I never talked about walks in Caivano. He made a controversy that was completely wrong and out of context but above all devoid of an objective reference."
Government officials, added De Luca, "are very nervous in this period", but, he continued, "I would like to tell them to stay calm".
(Unioneonline/lf)