All of Salvini’s latest papal pirouettes
What happens in the center-right between Berlusconi and Salvini not only on Russia and Ukraine. The Scratches of Damato
Net of about twenty, between deputies and senators, forced home by Covid, there would therefore have been 340, a little more or a little less, the parliamentarians who escaped the joint session improvised by the President of the Chamber in Montecitorio to listen to the president of the Ukraine Volodymir Zelensky, fighting the Russian invader. But also – let's not forget – the final solidarity speech delivered on behalf of the Italian government by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Which, although not explicitly requested, as underlined, reported and so on by the usual Fatto Quotidiano , offered "military aid" to Ukraine, also hoping for its participation in the European Union, already requested by Zelensky. Moreover, it would be much more politically useful to him than joining NATO, for fear or in anticipation of which Putin has meanwhile put the country to fire and sword.
More than with Zelensky in the Churchill version or edition, my friend Giuliano Ferrara would say, who has already written about it or had it written on the sheet , redeeming it from his origins as a comic actor a little like Grillo, let's say, but better electorally successful, the absent they wanted to take it out on Draghi. And they have somehow reconstituted within the vast majority of national unity, in which the right of Giorgia Meloni also participates on this issue, the original core of the legislature still in progress, composed of pentastellati and leaguers: a coalition that was immediately defined gray-green , but who now has very little military color because he would like everything except to engage in arms for the Ukrainians.
Among the pentastellati the absence of Giuseppe Conte as neither deputy nor senator, but equally president of the homonymous Movement, was compensated not so much by the presence, next to Draghi, of the applauding Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, now a kind of apostate in those parts, as well as from the cry of protest of the president of Grillino, in fact, of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Senate Vito Petrocelli. Who, instead of resigning from the post he occupies after having voted Putinian in recent weeks against the government's position on the Ukrainian conflict, has incited the ministers and undersecretaries of the Movement to leave it.
And Grillo, the other “extra-parliamentary”, let's call him that, of the Movement of which he is also the guarantor? He sits quietly at home and prefers to work on his personal blog – text, from the title of a note just released – for "a world treaty against plastic pollution", evidently including the one used by armies.
However curious, extravagant or whatever you prefer to call the position of this party while in government, indeed still the largest of them, despite the many defections suffered from the beginning of the legislature, fortunately to the epilogue, that of the League is politically even more embarrassing, especially in the role that Silvio Berlusconi has just conferred on Matteo Salvini, in the villa of Gernetto, as the "true and only leader" of Italy. He, present – his goodness – at the special joint session of the Chambers, applauded both Zelensky and Draghi, but left the classroom mumbling against weapons and metaphorically went to hang himself – as Emilio Giannelli happily portrayed him on the front page of the Corriere . della Sera – to the bells and so on of the Pope. Which "now he is serious", titled The Truth of Salvini's friend and I believe also elector Maurizio Belpietro, although not even Giuseppe Stalin's good soul was able to evaluate his times of how many troops the Pontiff had. Which was a particularly badass on the subject of anti-communism, or anti-Stalinism.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/salvini-berlusconi-cosa-succede/ on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:08:59 +0000.