With little need to delve into great detail on schedules, quantitative commitments and concrete measures, newly installed Italian PM Giuseppe Conte’s made his inaugural speech before parliament, seeking a confidence vote in the upper house Senate, and he ensured it kept closely to the script as written in the ‘government contract’ that was secured between the Five Start Movement and the League (c.f. article No. 10687). During his address, replete with rhetoric, the lawyer with no previous political experience passed himself off as ‘the lawyer who safeguards the interests of the Italian people’. He spoke of a ‘breath of fresh air’ that is blowing through Italy and happily accepted the monikers of ‘populist’ and ‘anti-system’, which he qualified as indicating ‘the ruling class listening to people’s needs and introducing a new system that does away with former privileges.”
The Conte method. The PM intends to base the government’s methodology on the careful listening to citizens’ needs, practical implementation, and on efficient management of measures undertaken. Giuseppe Conte started his speech by quickly going over the main points of the program. The government’s first focus will be ‘social rights, which over recent years have little by little been eroded with the all to well-known results of millions in poverty and as many unemployed.’ Italy’s citizens have a
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