“I have taken the opportunity in these long hours of a discussion which in my opinion is in any case fair, necessary to ask those unions who have called a general strike against the maneuver and the government, and in particular those who call for revolt against the government with tones that are unprecedented in the history of the trade unions, why they called the general strike today but didn’t do it when the unemployment rate was double that of today, when the employment rate was six points lower than today, when governments of the left, instead of asking the banks for a contribution to help pay for the measures in favor of the workers as we did, they used the money of the citizens and the workers to save the banks. Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, speaking via video link at the demonstration promoted in Bologna by the centre-right in support of the gubernatorial candidate for Emilia Romagna Elena Ugolini.
