A messy maneuver
How the newspapers evaluate the progress of the financial maneuver of the Meloni government. Damato's Scratches
Unfortunately for Giorgia Meloni, who ventured to Rome a few days ago to welcome herself in Piazza del Lavoro, there is some truth in all the critical headlines in today's newspapers on the path of the financial maneuver "blocked" in the Chamber, according to the somewhat evangelical version of Avvenire , the newspaper of the Italian bishops. Those for the first budget law of the centre-right, or rather right-centre, government that has been in office for about sixty days must add to their prayers, I fear.
There is some truth even in the "Total mess" shouted by the Fatto Quotidiano and in the photomontage that accompanies it mocking, with Meloni, the Northern League minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, his party leader Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi. Who from outside the government, having failed to be part of it personally, even though he believed he deserved it for having risked dying during the electoral campaign, gave his contribution to the negative representation of the progress of the maneuver. From which the Prime Minister had to order to exclude that "criminal shield" to the tax evaders claimed by the Knight. And challenged by the Democratic Party as an improper weapon against the budget law, to the extent of really boycotting its passage within the unavoidable deadline of the end of the year.
Now that the government's renunciation of that measure has removed a boulder as big as a skyscraper from the road to maneuver, Alessandro Sallusti can also take consolation in Libero at the idea, waved in the title of his editorial, that only "the left" will find itself " in provisional exercise” also next year, as well as at the end of this 2022 due to the clamorous electoral defeat three months ago. But Sallusti himself had to acknowledge in his comment with an unnecessarily pompous title that in the budget law being examined by Parliament, with the ready-made traps of the usual votes of confidence, "the measures enter and exit in a somewhat confused way simply because they do not there is agreement on everything within the majority”. Whose "partners mark each other on sight to prevent someone from taking advantage at the expense of others".
How do you then, with these premises, let's call them that, to blame Marco Travaglio for his already mentioned "total mess", and accompanying photomontage? Or only with the "sprint into chaos" indicated in the opening title of the first page of the Corriere della Sera , or with the "brawl in the government" denounced by the Press ? No, nobody in the government and in the majority can complain.
The same naturally applies to the "high voltage" announced by the peripheral Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and to that "bungled government" heralded as in a protest procession by Piero Sansonetti's Riformista . Which mocks, after all, also the merit claimed by Meloni and the allies of having given birth to this executive directly from mother Italy in the electoral polls of 25 September. Rhetoric, as we know, is always a double-edged sword, even when eaten with panettone, pandoro, chocolates and all the other Christmas ingredients.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/manovra-governo-meloni-giornali/ on Wed, 21 Dec 2022 06:41:46 +0000.