The Alliance keep the majority and the Prime Minister announces the Government is ready to pursue new ambitious plans for the next term
Prime Minister Alex De Martino celebrates the electoral victory
16 January 4804
ROMULA - The second elections of the new century, the second within the framework of the current two-party system involving The Alliance and the Socialists & Democrats, was gained by the previous majority and Prime Minister Alex De Martino is thus ready to led the country for another four years.
The night of the elections, after the results were known, during the celebrations into the UlbiCredit Sport Palace, chosen as electoral headquarters of The Alliance, Alex De Martino took the floor before his colleagues and supporters to thanks the country, to praise the work made and to announce the plans for the next term:
First of all I want to thanks Istalia and Istalians for having placed their trust in me and into my party once again. Clearly the country has recognized the benefits of the measures taken by this government which has therefore been awarded and has received a new mandate to lead the country for another term.
We have finally introduced a healthcare reform which we of The Alliance have always supported and which today guarantees a real freedom of choice to our citizens while at the same time continuing to protect their right to health, promoting a kind of dynamism in the sector which ensures high quality services and a continuous technological improvement thanks to competitiveness and efficient management of available resources.
Thanks to such a reform, the Government was able to free up enormous resources for one of the most important fiscal and budgetary reforms of recent decades, which guaranteed a lowering of taxes for all Istalians and above all allowed us to diverge funds to the most strategic sectors of the country, our excellences, to stimulate economic growth, job creation and investments in training and research.
The Istalians have recognized the goodness of our actions and will recognize the goodness of the programs my government is ready to implement over the next four years. We will finally liberalize again the energy sector and related infrastructure; we will direct new resources for industry, trade but above all tourism to further enhance this our excellence and the artistic and historical heritage of our beautiful country; we will put in place a welfare reform aimed always to enhance the freedom of choice for our citizens; we will adopt the first measures for the modernization of our Armed Forces but also for the improvement of their operational capabilities and in fact we have already presented our proposal for the creation of a Corps of the Coast Guard so as to be able to focus the resources and capabilities of the Imperial Navy on the global strategic goals that we are pursuing for the country.
Furthermore, I inform you that the Minister of Justice has already presented to the competent parliamentary commission a bill for the reorganization of the legislation relating to the Constitutional Court, currently fragmented among numerous legal sources and therefore harbinger of possible legal holes and inefficiencies, thus a legal reorganization aimed to eradicate the risk of such loopholes which we cannot admit when it's our Democracy and our Rights at stake.
We will demonstrate once again that this government wants to work and will work only for the good of the country.
Thank you
Prime Minister De Martino, in the following days, announced the current cabinet will remain in office without any reshuffle, confirming thus all the current Ministries under the sign of continuity and reliability.
Regarding the announced government's plans on welfare and defense, the one for the welfare, according to the rumors, will involve, in all probability, the pension system but about the plans for the defense little news leaked for the moment.
Analysts and expertises outside the Defense, however, underline that the current and future major needs of the Armed Forces include: for the Navy a new class of Aircraft Carrier, a new class of multipurpose amphibious ship with ligh carrier capabilities, a new class of cruiser and a new class of minor unit able to pursue missions like the patroling duties as well as blu water missions; for the Air Force a new air superiority aircraft, a new strategic bomber aircraft, complete replacement of all the typology of helicopters (need shared also with the Army which instead is already equiped with some of the most modern and technological advanced land vehicles and weapons).
The same expertises estimates that for all these needs at least two multidecennial programs will be necessary but after the experience of the last major defensive program and thanks to the traditional highly modular design methods, which have always taken into account the need of future improvements, many expect that the most recent current active units will be not replaced but will able to undertake extensive modernization works. Among them there are the cruisers belonging to the so called "Improved Imperator-Class" and almost half of the "Lupo-Class" frigates. Someone, finally, speculate that the hull of most of the "Fortezza-Class" carrier could be even fully reused so to build and to accomodate the infrastructures and the systems of a totally new aircraft carrier.