All the paper tugs between Giuseppe Conte and Massimo Giannini
The controversy between the director of La Stampa, Massimo Giannini, and the former prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, seen by the political notist Damato
There is no doubt, as Paolo Delgado has already pointed out, that Mario Draghi is encountering difficulties greater than expected, amid the satisfaction of his predecessor Giuseppe Conte, as well as the opposition declared and practiced by Giorgia Meloni with her brothers in Italy. , due to the complications that occurred in the vaccination campaign, the street protests against the persistent bans and related economic damage and finally the controversy caused by its first foreign mission, in Libya. Where even the newspaper Avvenire , of the Italian bishops, and not only a part of the Democratic Party and other sectors of the majority have contested the too many concerns, let's call them, reserved for the Coast Guard of that country, to which Italy is also about to refinance help, even knowing that it contributes to the inhumane treatment of migrants both leaving and entering, or returning, to Libya. That hosts them, so to speak, in substantial concentration camps, that is, detention.
What I doubt, however, about Conte, is the political advantage, as well as an understandable, albeit unspoken satisfaction for the difficulties of a successor who, according to the fans, supporters and anything else of the same Conte, would have arrived at Palazzo Chigi with political and even institutional forcing. And for which there would have been and still would be many, indeed too many, to spend themselves in praise, complacency and perhaps too reckless bets, given the continuing gravity of the emergencies entrusted to him, with the fiduciary consent of the Chambers, by the President of the Republic: emergencies of character health, social and economic.
The former Prime Minister – now taken up by other and no less burdensome tasks, such as the re-founding and governance of a movement that is complex and restless, to say the least, like that of the 5 Stars, while still dependent in the end on the last word of the "guarantor ”,“ Elevated ”and I don't know what else Beppe Grillo – he just came out a bit battered, I think, from a clash he tried, in a letter, with the director of the Press Massimo Giannini. Who, in contrasting him with Draghi, had accused him of limits and contradictions in the management of international relations in reference to the powder keg of Libya . Where Italy has enormous interests to protect: from oil to the control of illegal immigration directed more generally towards Europe but inevitably more particularly towards its southern borders, which are Italy.
In the piqued response to Giannini's remarks, who also had his own and exclusive information on the "substantial uselessness" attributed to Conte's work on the Libyan side by the Emir of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, the former prime minister opposed denials, writing about "falseness" of the information of the Press, clarifications and sarcasm. This was, in particular, a reference to the mythical Talleyrand to invite practically Giannini, and not all the newspapers of the group now practically owned by the young nephew and heir of Gianni Agnelli, not to support Draghi with "too zeal" because so there is always the risk of “serving the cause badly”.
In the reply, the director of the Press not only confirmed all his information and criticisms, but added others, making the fleas of the initiatives, externalizations and omissions even of the first Conte government, the one with the Leaguers, during which in fact a little bit happened. 'of everything: from Salvini who as vice president of the Council and Minister of the Interior felt better in Moscow than in Rome to the Di Maio-Di Battista couple who went to Paris to sympathize with the demonstrators in yellow vests engaged in ironing out and fire the city. The second Conte government, in addition to the unfortunate missions from the Emir of Abu Dhabi, to the race to Benghazi to be photographed with Haftar in exchange for the release of the Sicilian fishermen seized with their boats, abrasively recalled the political sponsorship obtained by the then president of the United States Donald Trump with that Giuseppe in the plural, like – I add – to any Italian in Brooklyn.
Finally, and not to be outdone by Conte on the historical and literary level, Giannini promising not to practice too much zeal in the defense of Draghi, who – he assured – has already begun to reproach what he deserves, exhorted the former Prime Minister not to practice too much, for his part, the "" schadenfreud "- he wrote – of Schopenhauer. And what is it, you will ask me if you don't know German? The "schadensfreude" that I went to consult on Wikipedia, is a "mischievous joy", "a pleasure caused by bad luck", in short – I understand – a little masochism, or a little too much.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutti-gli-strattoni-di-carta-fra-conte-e-giannini/ on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 05:10:41 +0000.