Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and 24 of his ministers, who formed the new government in Italy, received the first vote of confidence in the lower house of the parliament, the House of Representatives, after taking the oath of office yesterday. Prime Minister Meloni, who presented the government’s program to the Senate General Assembly, received a vote of confidence with 115 “yes” votes against 79 “no” votes in the vote of confidence that followed. While 199 senators participated in the vote of confidence in the 200-seat Senate, 5 senators abstained.
‘PEACE’ REACTION FROM SENATORS TO MELONI
Responding to senators who reacted to the fact that policy references did not include the word “peace” in a statement to the Senate General Assembly regarding Italy’s support for Ukraine, Meloni said, “If someone thinks that means I enjoy war, they are wrong. But we need to understand how man achieves peace. Peace is not made by waving a rainbow flag at a demonstration. It is difficult to achieve peace in this way,” he said.
In a statement on his social media account after the vote, Meloni said, “We will start working immediately to respond to the emergency situations facing Italy.”
Since the collapse of fascism in the Second World War in Italy, the first far-right-led government that won the elections, received the last vote of confidence, and there was no obstacle in front of it. Meloni, the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy Party (Fdl), became the country’s first female prime minister. (UAV)