The government will take no lectures from the opposition on debt since it swelled by some 174 billion euros due to the Superbonus green home improvement scheme introduced by a previous government, Premier Giorgia Meloni told parliament at Premier's Question Time Wednesday.
"I always encounter a certain contradiction in the accusations against this government," she told the Senate.
"We are accused on the one hand of implementing austerity measures and on the other reprimanded for the rising debt-to-GDP ratio, but "the debt is growing only thanks to the Superbonus, €174 billion" which "we will finish paying in 2027 when our mandate ends." Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this responding to a question from Stefano Patuanelli of the opposition 5-Star Movement, on initiatives to promote growth and industrial competitiveness.
"We have had colleagues who squandered resources by mortgaging the next five years because they knew they shouldn't have taken responsibility for those choices, and then they lecture us, and so I think they lecture us excessively.
"We could have even gotten out of the infringement procedure if we hadn't had to deal with hundreds of billions of euros wasted on uncontrolled electoral measures".
