First the hug with Matteo Salvini at the government benches.
Then the defense of the executive's "clear" position on Ukraine, because "decisions and votes count".
Giorgia Meloni uses communications in the Chamber, on the eve of the two-day European Council, to ensure that the positions taken by the Northern League secretary on the Russian elections do not affect the cohesion of the coalition, while it is in the broad field that there are "ambiguities".
After having only touched on the topic twenty-four hours earlier in the Senate, where his deputy prime minister was absent, in Montecitorio he responded to the opposition's accusations during the debate - which the Northern League leader attended for about ten minutes - in which there was no shortage of sparks with the deputies centre-left.
Especially when the prime minister sets aside the formalities and addresses them with "guys".
But also when Elly Schlein defines her as "incoherent about everything", and asks her to demand from Cairo the addresses of the 007 accused for the murder of Giulio Regeni.
Or when Giuseppe Conte accuses her of "bringing Italy into the third world war".
The only moment of applause shared in the Chamber is when Meloni takes the floor for his reply, and recalls the murder of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin 30 years ago in Mogadishu, underlining that the Tg3 journalist for her courage "deserves gratitude from everyone, especially women."
The symbolic snapshot of the day remains that of Salvini and Meloni embracing each other smiling.
It is the image of a centre-right which "is a 30-year love story, which never falls apart", claims the other deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani, whose words in recent days have appeared in antithesis to those of the Northern League (" When a people votes they are always always right").
At the same time, the League obtained from the government the withdrawal of the emergency procedure on the cybersecurity bill, which in the Chamber risked slowing down the Autonomy process.
The narrative on the compactness of the majority is, however, contested by the opposition.
The Democratic Party is in the lead, urging the Prime Minister to speak with Salvini and Viktor Orban to clarify support for Kiev.
And here she raises her tone.
He emphasizes that "in both cases decisions and votes count."
That when Mario Draghi presented himself at the European Council his "varied majority" guaranteed him resolutions "light years away from those that are written and worked on by the entire majority today".
And that there is "ambiguity" in the Democratic Party, "which explains to us what we must do and then abstains on sending weapons to Ukraine".
A falsehood, for the Dems: "Since the Russian aggression, we have never abstained on sending weapons."
Meloni also turns to the Democratic Party to reject the equation between the Egyptian and Russian presidents, both elected with a plebiscite, but supported by the M5s.
"It being understood that in my opinion we must talk to everyone, there is a difference between Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Valdimir Putin. Putin invaded a neighboring nation", states the prime minister, before addressing the Middle East chapter.
It does so starting from the "concern" for the choice of the Academic Senate of the University of Turin not to participate in the call for scientific cooperation with Israel "after an occupation by the collectives: if the institutions submit to these methods we risk having a lot of problems".
For the Prime Minister there is "the fear of Israel's growing isolation", to which she reiterates her "opposition to a military ground operation in Rafah which could have catastrophic effects".
On those already evident in Gaza you claim the government's humanitarian intervention.
And to Nicola Fratoianni's request to release the funds for UNRWA she replies that it will not happen "until full light has been shed on the use of the resources".
The Italian commitment, she explains, aims to "ensure that the EU Council can end with a clear position on the Palestinian issue", after the "many divergences" of the last meeting.
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