From Giuseppe Conte to Avs, the opposition accuses Giorgia Meloni of the hacker attacks but forgets the M5s motion against investments in security.
I admire the bronze face of the opposition representatives. Since they started cyber attacksthe left accuses the government of having ignored the danger of a hybrid warfare to prioritize military spending. On Monday, for example, I listened to the reprimand of Benedetta ScuderiMEP of Avs, against an executive that “cut investments” that should have made the country safe. Giorgia Meloni, thundered the MP from the Greens and the Left, instead of defending data, infrastructures and essential services from cyber attacks by hackers, has allocated the money to the purchase of weapons.
Before her it was the leader of the 5 stars who dictated the line in the wide field, Giuseppe Contewho immediately accused the majority of “having defunded cybersecurity, to waste 14 billion on weapons and defense”. This thesis was immediately shared by the representatives of the Movement, but also by deputies and senators of the Democratic Party, of Avs and also of Italia viva. In short, if Italy is exposed to the threats of computer pirates and foreign secret services capable of violating the servers of companies, ministries and educational institutions, the fault lies – obviously – with those at Palazzo Chigi, who underestimated the risks. Renzi, Borghi, Gabrielli and company even went so far as to mock government officials.
The M5s motion from a year ago which denies the accusations against the government
However, the only thing they have not done is re-read the parliamentary documents and, above all, the motion that the group leader of the 5 Star Movement, Riccardo Ricciardipresented at the end of July a year ago. The document, signed by the majority of the five-star deputies and voted by the representatives of Avs and which the members of the Democratic Party found no reason to oppose, deciding to abstain, accuses the government of wanting to invest well1.5% of Gross Domestic Product in security and cybersecurity: a spending target deemed disastrous for the fate of Italian welfare. That is, until just over a year ago, spending 5% of GDP, equal to 66 billion for defense and 33 for security, was a real disaster for the left, to be avoided in any way. Thus, Ricciardi wrote and his comrades agreed in unison, “health spending, education, welfare, the environment, business support, employment and social rights are sacrificed, priorities that appear irreconcilable with a financial commitment of this magnitude”.
The resource hub between defense, security and public health
So? Ricciardi, Baldino, Carotenuto, Silvestri and companions committed the government to «avoid any possibility of increasing defense and security spending, at the same time adopting urgent initiatives aimed at the progressive annual increase of the resources of the National health funduntil the complete reintegration of the same resources taken away from public health is achieved». As is known, and as an article by our Alessandro Rico has demonstrated, it is left-wing governments that have reduced investments in healthcare and the current one, if anything, has brought nominal spending back to previous levels, even increasing it.
But in the wide fieldin addition to not having noticed all this, they did not even realize that they were the ones who were against investments in measures that would allow them to deal with hybrid warfare. So busy attacking the majority, opposition leaders simply forgot to take a look at what they themselves approved just a year ago. The result is that in addition to demonstrating that they have an extraordinary brazen face, with the battle in favor of cybersecurity they risk taking the prize of hypocrites of the year.
