Giuseppe Conte, the former Prime Minister, does not fit in. On the accusations leveled against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of authorizing the process of rewriting the European Solidarity Mechanism without being mandated, the former prime minister and current leader of the 5 Star Movement wants to go all the way. "I have just delivered to President Fontana the request to set up a jury of honor aimed at verifying the lies, the malicious conduct of President Meloni, who has offended me, the 5 Star Movement, and humiliates Italy and parliament - he thundered yesterday at a press conference organized in the Chamber of Deputies urgently, morning for morning - It is a precedent that cannot pass, It is not normal political dialectics to come and declare falsehood by waving a piece of paper that itself denies it." Everything began on December 12 of last year, when Meloni, in response to the Chamber of Deputies debate on communications in anticipation of the European Council, erupted in a rage: when did Italy consent to the amendment of this treaty? The Conte government did so without parliamentary authorization, a day after resigning, when it was merely in office to deal with current issues under the cover of darkness. Only to respond the next day in the Senate, producing a fax signed by Luigi Di Maio, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, as proof of her comments. "Giorgia Meloni deliberately chose to lie to parliament to all citizens by claiming that my government gave ok, without a parliamentary mandate, under the cover of darkness and as it was resigning - Conte reiterated today - She lied aware of lying: she was in that parliament and there was a wide debate, culminating in a resolution committing my government to give a mandate to the revision of the ESM". Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic, was also informed of the proposal to establish a jury "due to the gravity of the facts." "The paradox," Conte continued, "is that Meloni, as Minister of Youth, brought us into the ESM. I would never have done the ESM; all we needed was a backstop," the review process. "The question is, what have Draghi and Meloni accomplished in the meantime?".
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