Thousands of people join Five Star Party Rally in Rome against the rearmament plan of the EU

Thousands of people went down to the streets of Rome on Saturday in response to the call of the five -star movement to protest against the reset of the European Union.

“Unexpected figures, beyond all expectations,” commented the organizers of the demonstration, which started at Piazza Vittorio and made its way to the Fori Imperiali. According to sources in the five -star movement, attendance could reach 100,000.

The start of the march, the head of the five -star movement and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte criticized the government of Giorgia Meloni and the rearmament plan proposed by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

Conte: “a company no to 800 billion to rearrange Europe”.

“Today, comes a little strong and clear to the waste of $ 800 billion in Rearm Europe, a madness,” said Conte and added: “Giorgia Meloni approved the plan of European rearmament without any mandate, and it is another failure of his government which will remain in history.”

“I am happy that the main opposition forces are present today because today we throw a solid pillar to the construction of a government alternative. The Meloni government has sold Italy to the needs of Germany on a project that will disintegrate Europe more and it is another failure of its own. ” The demonstration was assisted by members of the Green-Left Alliance and a delegation from the Democratic Party, including the leader of Senators Dem Francesco Boccia.

“We are here today because here is an opposition to the right -wing government that has isolated us in Europe, which has no strategy to react to the prices other than to hope to go with a hat in hand to face Trump. And with all the oppositions, we want to return the government of Giorgia Meloni and Salvini, “said Boccia. PD secretary, Elly Schlein, did not attend the rally, because she would not have agreed on everything but only on certain points. The centrist partistes azione and Italia Viva were also missing.

Paola Taverna, the vice-president of the 5-star movement, is also on stage, Paola Taverna and the former president of the room Roberto Fico. “It’s our square. It is the square of our identity and our pride. With democracy, we build peace. Today, we oppose the nasty policy of rearmament. He throws the future of all of us. Being here means resisting and building. “

“We are very pacifist, we are naturally here and we see this as an important step to create the alternative to the government,” said Nicola Fratoianni of the Green-Left Alliance. “I hope that in the near future, there can be an initiative, a mobilization that sees us all together to multiply our assembled peoples because the time has come to change and turn the page,” added Angelo Bonelli.

Tajani: “Security means defending our borders”.

Critique of the demonstration came from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani. “I do not understand what the M5 want, they want peace, but tells the government gave more money for the defense,” Tajani said during his closing speech to the National Party Council at the Palazzo Dei Congressi in Rome.

“I would also like all those who demonstrate today,” added Tajani, “to realize that making citizens safer is a service that politics must render to the country, because security is not the canons to do who knows what wars. Security means defending our borders, defending our industries.”

“Because we cannot make it possible to steal industrial secrets, industrial data, citizens’ data is stolen. Cybersecurity is also the following. This also means having a more efficient and more modern infrastructure,” concluded the minister.