“In Italy there is an extreme right in government that is cutting public spending, healthcare, schools, and is blocking our minimum wage proposals. They are only producing propaganda, hatred and polarization. Last week Meloni in Florence said that the opposition is worse than Hamas. I want to sympathize with Ranucci, the victim of a terrible attack: freedom and democracy are at risk when the extreme right is in government.” The leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, said this while speaking at the PSE Congress. “I am here at the PSE Congress to reiterate the Democratic Party’s battle in favor of a minimum wage in Italy, one of the countries with the lowest wages, and for public health, with six million Italians who have given up on treatment. In addition to the battle on the right to housing which the right-wing government has completely forgotten and on which the entire PSE is united in Europe”.