Calenda cuddles Meloni and trolls Forza Italia
Carlo Calenda's moves, words and thoughts on Meloni and beyond. Damato's Scratches
I don't know if, informed tens of thousands of kilometers away, Matteo Renzi fully shared the essentially enthusiastic judgment expressed by his political partner in Italy Carlo Calenda on leaving Palazzo Chigi, after an hour and a half of discussion with the president Giorgia Meloni on the "maneuver", as the budget law is called, finally ready for the now usually rapid parliamentary examination.
CALENDA'S MANEUVERS WITH MELONS
A maneuver – Calenda told the press – which has too much Matteo Salvini's imprint but which Giorgia Meloni is "prepared" enough to perceive its limits, change it with the help of the so-called third pole and even make it attractive for a favorable vote or an abstention. Unless the government, pressed by urgency, haste and so on, which not even Mario Draghi could not escape last year, resorts to trust.
THE CHARM OF MELONS SECOND CALENDA
That Calenda just couldn't vote, even with all due respect, even the admiration he has towards the premier. From which he even said he was "fascinated", as well as impressed by the preparation, by the story of "a woman who was born into an unprivileged family, with a difficult life and who manages it alone". Something – explained the senator and former minister – "that predisposes me positively from the point of view of chemistry". In short, hormones claim their share. And with them, you know, it's dangerous to joke.
LITTLE SERENE BLUES ON THE CALENDA
In the face of so much goodness, let's say, a highly responsible Calenda has shown that he cannot rest both for the preliminary opposition practiced against Meloni by Enrico Letta's Pd and by the 5 Star Movement, which vie for streets and squares to protest , and for the "sabotage" practiced within the majority by Forza Italia. Where naturally they didn't like reproaching the "opinionated" censor with an "irrelevance" – said, in particular, Licia Ronzulli – that the third pole would try to hide by showing that they can spend what they don't have.
THE WEIGHT OF CALENDA
In fact, thinking about it, it only has 9 MPs in the single assembly where the margins of the majority are modest, around 15. And these margins are threatened, even more than by internal conflicts in the government coalition, by forced absences, at crucial moments, of too many senators appointed ministers and undersecretaries.
THE NEWSPAPER SBROCCA ON CALENDA
But in addition to the reduced ranks in the albeit crucial Palazzo Madama, the third pole would be weakened by the division between "the exaggerated tactics" contested in Calenda by the director of the Giornale still belonging to the Berlusconi family, if the rumors of its imminent sale to the Angelucci family are true , and "the professional one" attributed to Matteo Renzi by Augusto Minzolini. Which was however overcome in the controversy by Alessandro Sallusti on Libero with a front page-manifesto, complete with a photo of the interested party, which shouts in blue: "Calenda knocks on the right – You can't trust this one here".
In the face of so much passion, let's call it that, or the irony of Stefano Rolli, who on the Secolo XIX translates Meloni's "openings" to Calenda and vice versa into a door slammed in the face by Meloni herself to Silvio Berlusconi; in the face of so much passion, I said, it seems to have ended up in school, or in a convent, reading in the Corriere della Sera the reflections of professor Angelo Panebianco on the "centrist bets" in this nineteenth legislature which has just begun.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/calenda-meloni/ on Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:42:07 +0000.