ROME - - The leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, has called out Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the government’s recent attack on the magistrates and other scandalous events.

 Schlein declared: “She is hostage to scandals and shameful rants," calling the prime minister to “Come out of this silence on mortgages, inflation and minimum wage.”

 Schlein argues, according to Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, that Meloni has been silent following the scandals linked to the companies of minister Daniela Santanchè, the investigation into Justice Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro and the “shameful rant” by Ignazio La Russa regarding an alleged sexual assault committed by his son.

 In recent days, Schlein has shunned Meloni’s choice to rely on Palazzo Chigi “sources” to launch an attack on the magistrates. 

 Schlein asked: “How long will Meloni’s silence last for? For weeks she has been hostage to the investigations, scandals and shameful rants of her own majority.” The leader of the opposition added “not a word has been said on the proposal of the oppositions to the minimum wage and this silence does not punish the opposition but humiliates three million poor workers.”

 Schlein also denounced the total inertia, according to Fatto, on the “expensive mortgages” and “on the housing emergency that the government has exacerbated by cutting the rent fund.”

 The Democratic Party secretary’s list of problems with the government also includes “safety at work” and its “tragic stream of victims”, hence her final challenge: “[Meloni has] not a single proposal on how to counter the galloping inflation that is impoverishing the country. What else has to happen for it to finally hit home?”

 These are the same points which were already touched on over the weekend at the CGIL (the Italian General Confederation of Labour, a trade union) party in Bologna, when Schlein spoke of Meloni’s “embarrassed and embarrassing” silence.

The opposition leader further added that the Prime Minister “is only dealing with the judicial disputes of her ministers” while the country’s emergencies “cannot wait any longer.”

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