I’ll tell you about Berlusconi’s lucid madness on the Mes reform and beyond
Moves and goals of Silvio Berlusconi not only on the reform of the Mes. Italics by Paola Sacchi
It could be called "The strange case of the Cav", for one day Jekyll then suddenly returned to the usual Hyde. With members of the Democratic Party who in addition to giving him the irresponsible, also accuse him of quirinalizie aims. In reality, "The strange case", according to a narrative somewhat, said with respect, by Robert Louis Stevenson de noantri, does nothing but put Silvio Berlusconi at the center of the political debate. Of which, at the age of 84, after 26 years from his descent on the field, one still wonders what he wants to do when he grows up.
One day acclaimed by the left for the surprise move, in which he played a decisive role, for the yes to the new budget shift, a vote in which the entire center-right was compact, and the following day attacked for an even more surprise in which he said no to the reform of the Mes, a reform in which in Europe, due to the majority vote of the states, Italy could see its money destined for other countries, without being able to say either to or ba. The Cav also clearly specified that this no has nothing to do with its confirmed yes to the use of the so-called Sanitary Mes of 37 billion.
Obviously, the move has kept the center-right even more firm and united, with a league that has always supported these positions, with the exception of the health sector which it disagrees with, such as Giorgia Meloni's FdI. The newspaper La Repubblica immediately titled "Berlusconi obeys Salvini" and also wrote about a Forza Italia "in revolt" against its president and founder, as well as creditor of a large sum made available by him for the party.
Now, apart from the fact that seeing the Cav in the guise of one who obeys is something little known to the news for 26 years and always alien to his own nature, the fact remains, as we tried to reiterate just a few days ago for Startmag , that his moves are unpredictable. As a "gambler" of politics it is not the first time that he has displaced the left, starting with his own descent into the field, when it seemed all done with "the joyful war machine" of Achille Occhetto.
A leader like Massimo D'Alema knows this well to whom Berlusconi overturned the Bicameral table for constitutional reforms, when the newspapers wrote that it was all done thanks to an alleged agreement between D'Alema and the then leader of the Right, An , Gianfranco Fini. And, instead, precisely from that break the former four-time premier and founder of the center-right set off again for the "march of the desert" which brought him back in 2001 to Palazzo Chigi, passing through the victory of the Regional and European.
But Matteo Renzi knows even more about the unpredictability of the Cav in more recent times. While the so-called Nazarene Pact was still formally in force, Berlusconi finally pulled out of it one evening, at the entrance to Montecitorio, when very energetically in front of notebooks and cameras he said: "Sergio Mattarella does not vote him and not for a personal reason against of him". I was present, I remember phoning one of the newspapers with which I collaborated saying: look, "the Nazarene has jumped", they found it hard to believe me. And yet it went like this.
The Cav, in fact, as it had been publicly known for some time, had another candidate for the Colle: Giuliano Amato. And let's say that he came to know rather late, according to many reconstructions, of Renzi's choice. To which he then returned the pair in the constitutional referendum, where the defeat, precisely due to the no even of FI, reached a peak of over 60 percent. Apart from the dispute on the merits of the reform, the Cav had smelled a certain desire, attributed by the newspapers to Renzi, to empty Fi and said to his followers: "He doesn't take my votes." There remained one blue voter out of 3 or 4 to vote yes in the referendum.
Other than "game over" for Berlusconi, who to bring water to his mill in those days was also talking to Bruno Vespa about "those good guys, after all, Luigi Di Maio and Alessandro Di Battista", casually joined him in the no , which aroused the hilarity of Vespa and of the bystanders at the presentation of the book of the owner of Porta a Port a.
Four years have passed, there was the overtaking of FI by the Lega of Matteo Salvini, in 2018, which later became the first Italian party in the European and Regional, a primacy that still has today in the polls, but the numbers in parliament have remained corresponding to that 17 per cent of the League and to that 14 per cent of FI (riots in the party apart, perhaps more like storms in a glass of water) attested by the last political elections.
Applauded, so write the agencies, the meeting of the blue group at last night Room number two of Forza Italy, Antonio Tajani, that the Corriere della Sera said "we do not obey anyone." And who, as for Europe, given his countless positions, even as former President of the European Parliament, knows "who we are dealing with", as the economist and former president of the Montecitorio Budget Committee, Claudio, acknowledged in a tweet. Borghi, a Northern League very close to Salvini. The president of the blue group, Mariastella Gelmini, a very solid character, held the bar straight.
To return to the Cav, now those numbers he has in parliament, combined with those of the Lega and FdI, are decisive for playing a role in the mother of all games in politics: the election in 2022 of the Head of State. All the more so if to those numbers we might add those of Malpancisti grillini, among which his move on the Mes caused not a little confusion.
In any case, the point for Berlusconi, a down-to-earth man, despite appearances for 26 years making him appear the opposite in the mainstream press, and a very seasoned politician sui generis, is not to become the new President of the Republic. Although for those who know him well, as is easily imaginable, it certainly could not displease him.
But the goal is to be at the table once again, as it always has, as the king maker of that election. “There is a method in Berlusconi's apparent madness,”wrote Francesco Damato in this newspaper. After all, "The eulogy of madness" has always been his favorite reading.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-la-lucida-follia-di-berlusconi-su-riforma-mes-e-non-solo/ on Thu, 03 Dec 2020 05:39:56 +0000.