Rome, 10 January (LaPresse) – "It is incredible how, in three hours of answering journalists' questions, Giorgia Meloni failed to say a single word about social issues, about the major concerns of Italians, which are public healthcare and the high cost of living. Nothing about schools. She made a long list of “we will do's” that seems to have arrived yesterday. Yet she promised to abolish excise duties and increased them. She promised to reduce the retirement age and extended it. She promised to reduce taxes and they have been at their highest for ten years. Faced with such inconsistency, it will be up to us to build a fairer Italy." This was stated by PD secretary Elly Schlein in an interview with “Repubblica”. The Prime Minister says that wages have increased? "She is lying, and those Italians who no longer have enough money to even buy groceries know this well. Istat data show that in the last four years – this is the comparison with 2021 – real wages have fallen by 9 percentage points, while food prices, i.e. the cost of a shopping trolley, have increased by an average of 25%. Meloni should stop arguing with the calculator. For many families, this means leaving essential goods on the shelves, not superfluous items," replies the Democratic Party leader.
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