Berlusconi drawn on the Quirinale?
Facts, moods, words and puffs in the race – or in the battle? – at the Quirinale. The Scratches of Damato
Like the autumn leaves on the trees of the famous poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti, the hypocrisies scattered behind the curtain of opportunity, good taste, personal respect for the outgoing President of the Republic and whatever else on the road to his succession. Even the bogey Corriere della Sera , while still stopping in the middle of the first page, without rising to the top with the title of so-called opening, called the battle underway for the Quirinale.
Although I have already seen, indeed experienced as a politician, various editions, in particular those that ended with the election of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Giorgio Napolitano and Sergio Mattarella, the astute but still vulnerable Silvio Berlusconi began to smell burned around his candidacy for the Quirinale: not formalized, for heaven's sake, as the faithful Antonio Tajani has just returned to say, but from which he himself has curiously said in public that "he does not want to back down".
In particular, the former Prime Minister, as we understand from a background of Francesco Verderami in the Corriere della Sera stuffed with quotes, began to suspect that his center-right allies have barricaded themselves around his climb to the Colle more for pretense than by conviction, transforming his into one of the many "flag candidates" practiced in the races at the Quirinale, before being abandoned to converge on other more realistic ones. Of course, he would not lend himself to this game by retreating to the "penultimate moment". And by interrupting the "persuasion" operations – shopping according to the opponents of the Fatto Quotidiano – conducted by his trusted men, but sometimes also directly by him, on the soft underbelly, let's say, of the Parliament made up of 290 senators and deputies that since the beginning of the legislature have changed groups,
The leaf most noisily fallen from the tree of fictions on the Quirinale road is that of the powerful Northern League minister Giancarlo Giorgetti so far . Who, while even slapping, according to Il Foglio , his friend and superior Matteo Salvini for the messes he would continue to make on the evolution of the League in a Europeanist sense, credited and relaunched Mario Draghi al Colle's readiness for the election, after the baths of authority made at the G20 in Rome. The fears of disastrously interrupting the government action at Palazzo Chigi, with all the commitments undertaken with the European Union in exchange for financing the recovery plan to be implemented by 2026, would be unfounded because Draghi – Giorgetti explained – would continue from the Quirinale to lead "the convoy" of Italy. He would create a kind of "semi-presidentialism" hidden by the appointment of a prime minister of very close confidence.
Naturally, according to the usual Fatto Quotidiano , in tune with the equally usual Giuseppe Conte, a "coup against the Charter", that is, against the Constitution, but not a novelty hypocritically ignored by fine politicians and analysts scandalized by Giorgetti's statements. While still alive, the late Carlo Azeglio Ciampi told of being asked by the then President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, in 1993, to prepare a new electoral law with which to bring the Italians back to the polls as soon as possible. The former governor of the Bank of Italy, although skeptical due to lack of competence in this regard, aligned himself with the commitment made by Scalfaro himself to have him assisted in the work directly from the "Quirinale offices".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-attapirato-sul-quirinale/ on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 07:07:28 +0000.