Matteo Salvini, head of the right-wing League, urges immediate help for families and businesses in the face of rising energy prices. According to him, if prices do not decrease, the new Roman government must provide electricity and gas proportionately.
Matteo Salvini called on Acting Prime Minister Mario Draghi to put on the agenda next week the adoption of the new budget package, which will support families and businesses.
We need tens of billions of euros, not billions, and the League is ready to vote for the introduction of repeated aid, the League leader added on Friday in Naples, one of the stops on his campaign tour in southern Italy.
Matteo Salvini pointed out that since the beginning of the year, the Draghi government has already transferred 30 billion euros to people and businesses that are in difficulty due to rising utility costs. An additional 20 billion was set aside by the end of the year, over which the government that won the September elections must already dispose of.
Matteo Salvini said that if prices do not fall, the new government in Rome will have to "ration electricity and gas, starting with businesses".
He added that the League has been warning for months about "what many people are only realizing now, that September and October will be devastating for families and businesses" due to energy prices.
He believed that it was much better to tell the truth than to remain silent in front of the population.
He noted that French President Emmanuel Macron also made similar announcements, with the difference that, unlike France, Italy does not have nuclear reactors and only consumes imported energy.
"There is a concrete danger that we have to decide who can heat and who can't, who can turn on the lights and who can't," declared Matteo Salvini.
Source: MTI
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