Because Salvini’s League has a front row seat in the Draghi government
Objectives and expectations of the Salvini League with the Draghi government. Paola Sacchi's Note
That Giancarlo Giorgetti, number two League member, new minister for economic development, sitting from start to finish on the right of Mario Draghi, will also mean something. Iconography in politics is never a coincidence.
So much so that in the evening when "SuperMario" replies, to the left of the premier the pentastellato leader, foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, joins with a certain skilful anxiety. "Yeah, it wasn't even two years ago and it really looks like another political era ..".
The vice-president of the Senate, Roberto Calderoli, a powerful man of the League of yesterday and today, enjoys the scene and admits the revenge that his League has taken with Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
"Il Calde" (as they call him in his parts of Bergamo) replies in this way, underlining that we are "in another political era", to the reporter who points out the difference with the treatment that always here in the Senate, on the afternoon of 20 August 2019, tanned faces, buckets of sand left at Papeete or Capalbio and in any other Italian beach, received the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini.
A hot afternoon, with sharp accusations of "irresponsibility", complete with "And you, dear Matteo" and fingers pointed a little inelegantly on the shoulder, by the then Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. And Salvini always with the patient expression of the series: look what I have to endure for saying no to the blockade of the Tav. The real reason why Count 1 fell.
Di Maio was even then on the left of that premier. While Giorgetti, still briefly undersecretary to the presidency of the Council, was in the lower benches with all his series of enigmatic faces, but not too much.
Unforgettable one in which it seems, with an eloquent ironic smile, to answer “wow, this too! ”To a Count who also mentioned a Barbarossa in order to attack Salvini.
The music has definitely changed. Now Giorgetti stands there, like a rock, always fixed to the right of “SuperMario”, with his discreet green “Padano” tie, from “Richelieu padano”, according to the vulgate.
He nods "il Gianca", which has always been called in the Lega, when "Mario", as per his own admission to the Corriere della Sera, has been calling the prime minister for quite some time, speaks of "love for Italy", of Euro-Atlantic anchorage of our country, where immigration must be regulated by European “pro-quota” rules. And Salvini in the evening claims the principle for which he has always fought, remembers that the League in the name of "growth, development, environment but not in an ideological way" has decided to bet on Draghi, "today is a good day".
It all comes back to the end. Calderoli jokes with the “legologist” chronicler, extolling Giorgetti's diplomatic skills: “Giancarlo always nods”.
Gaetano Quagliariello, founder of “Idea”, senator and refined historian, replies to the reporter: “Brothers of Italy are you asking us to create a center-right intergroup? But we already have it in the clear majority of the Regions. No to mechanical repetitions. Today everything changes. Did Draghi mention Cavour? And I believe it, Cavour made Italy ”.
Meanwhile, from Gemonio, the founder of the Northern League, president for life, Umberto Bossi comes back with a significant declaration of "blessing" to the Draghi government. An honorary citizen of Città della Pieve, in the Umbria of civil alternation between left and right.
Without havoc, Draghi style. 262 yes, in the end. A little less than Monti . But Draghi is not mountains and seas.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/lega-salvini-governo-draghi/ on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 05:28:10 +0000.