The new government has brought back to Italy "hope" and "mending the social fabric". These are the two strong statements that characterized the synthesis of the brief interventions of the government leaders, who abandoning the rigid rules of ceremonial and security poured out among the people.
In fact, the people crowded on the sides of the Fori Imperiali, in the capital, turned to the ministers to praise them at the end of the military parade for the Republic Day. Initially the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, remained in the gallery of honor, shaking hands with the mayors. "So far there has been too much talk, now we have to do the facts," he said. Then he leaned out towards the audience, assuring him that he will give it all, even if, he stresses, he does not have “the magic wand”. In short, he really wants to be "the defense attorney of the Italians", as he called himself. And people believe it: they parade in front of him, explain their problems to him, hope they are solved. Conte is indeed a lawyer, of course, but not an inquisitor. “It is wrong to represent Italy as a country of corrupt”, he said, addressing some present who were particularly angry at public affairs. "There are episodes of corruption as there are in other countries," he stressed. Then off, he went down into the crowd, and did not listen to the men of his escort: instead of using the service car, Conte in fact walked for a good stretch of the Forum, practically up to Piazza Venezia, continuing to shake hands and indulge in selfies. “Hold on, let's hold on”, his watchwords.
“We have given the Italians hope, said the deputy premier and interior minister instead Matteo Salvini. Now we need to move on from hope to facts. There is little to celebrate and so much to do. But there is a great team. Tomorrow I will be in Sicily, it is our border ”. In short, the Northern League will go and see a hot border, which is heating up even more with some landings from Libya.
Salvini also pledged to "work on repatriation agreements with those countries from which those thousands of desperate people who arrive in our country come from." Without such agreements, the minister knows that his promises would remain unfulfilled. The other Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Labor Luigi Di Maio, at the Forum he spoke of "mending the social fabric of the country". Analyzing the political situation, Di Maio said “if we have not united Italy from a geographical point of view, we have certainly done so from the point of view of social issues”. The pentastellato leader immediately moved to his department, promising a rewrite of the Jobs Act and the Fornero Law. But it is above all ordinary people, with the demands shouted at the new ministers, the real protagonists of the ceremony on 2 June. The hope of the head of state, entrusted to a message to the Minister of Defense Elisabetta Trenta, is to see "a cohesive and reliable country, capable of assuming responsibility in the international community".