"I hope that we can act together and collaborate to ensure that our country is well-represented in the European Union's top positions. That is, we must work to determine what is owed to Italy as a whole, not to the government or this or that party, but to the country. That burden has not always been adequately recognized in the past, but the message sent to us by citizens through the vote is clear, and I do not intend to ignore it". This concludes Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's speech to the Chambers, with the European Council meeting today and tomorrow, which may provide an opportunity to appoint the EU's top leaders. "If there is an indisputable fact that has emerged from this round of elections, it is the rejection of the policies carried out by the government forces in many of the great European nations, which are also, very often, the forces that have imprinted the policies of the Union in recent years", Meloni stated, pointing out that "only Italy, among the great European nations, It has a positive figure with almost 53% of the elected representatives being an expression of the government forces" . However, the prime minister declares, "there are those who argue that citizens are not mature enough to make certain decisions and that oligarchy is the only acceptable form of democracy, but I disagree. I fought this bizarre principle in Italy, and I intend to fight it in Europe as well". "It does not seem to me that the will to take into account what citizens have said at the ballot box has emerged so far", Meloni further points out, stating that she finds it "surreal that in the first meeting, albeit informal, of the European Council following the elections, some presented themselves directly with proposals for names for top positions, the result of interlocutions between some parties, without even pretending to want to open a discussion on what were the indications that came from the citizens with the vote" . Meloni recalls how top positions have been "normally entrusted taking into account the groups with the largest size": in this sense, she points out in her response after the debate that conservatives, not liberals, constitute the third group.
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