Meloni: 'Never feared not to be able to form a government'

"I have never really feared of not being able to establish a government

even if I have considered the possibility of presenting myself in Parliament without a prior agreement with all the allies, when some proposals seemed inadmissible to me".

So premier Giorgia Meloni in a passage from the latest book by Bruno Vespa.

"Although - he continues - I had gone out to meet everyone without leafing through the Cencelli manual, because the numbers would have said something else. But I was interested in forming a team that would work, an unassailable, serious, adequate, well-balanced government. And I think I succeeded. ".

"A new and different relationship has been established with Salvini

- said the premier -. He understood what could and what could not be done and helped me find solutions. In certain situations he asked me to help him, in others I asked him. Mutual frankness without controversy. A mediator? Well, the fact of not taking sides a priori with Berlusconi helped me a lot ".

As for Silvio Berlusconi

, Meloni affirms that "with him there was some more misunderstanding, daughter of the passing of the baton. When you live certain epochal moments, it is fatal that there are shocks. I don't know how well he was advised to the I start, but I must acknowledge the clarity of understanding what the priorities were in the end so as not to disappoint those who believed in us and in the return after eleven years to a center-right political government. His speech on trust delivered to the Senate was beautiful and important , and I was happy to applaud him. "

And speaking of her meeting with the French president Macron, the premier explains that she has illustrated

. I contested the predatory attitude that France has shown on a few occasions, I found a perfect community of 'intentions in defending food sovereignty, which France also cares a lot about. We talked about Libya, immigration, infrastructure. But loyalty and frankness can only bring advantages to our relations. I found him absolutely in agreement on this line " .