Christmas at the Berlusconi house
Because Berlusconi doesn't like Draghi's nativity scene. The Scratches of Damato
Berlusconi does not like the crib practically set up in the press conference at the end of the year by " grandfather at the service of the institutions " Mario Draghi, although he helped him to become first president of the European Central Bank and then president of the Council.
They looked like jelly and flab, as also from photos of their meeting in Montecitorio on the occasion of the consultations for the formation of the government still in office today, but the two ended up finding themselves in conflict, both competing at the Quirinale. And both in an anomalous form, more allusive than explicit, more between the lines than within them: the one -Draghi- threatening the renunciation of Palazzo Chigi if he does not obtain the Quirinale and the other -Berlusconi- threatening the end of the center-right if in the Colle match, when it really begins in the Montecitorio classroom with the votes of parliamentarians and regional delegates, the components of the alliance will not remain compact as they returned to engage in yesterday's meeting at Villa Grande, on the 'Appia Antica.
If it is a government crisis due to Draghi's renunciation of staying at Palazzo Chigi with another head of state, Parliament will risk the early elections of a year, perhaps for the benefit of an electoral campaign of just over two months. If it is a crisis and rupture of the center-right, neither Matteo Salvini nor Giorgia Meloni, who contend for it by chasing and overtaking each other in the electoral polls, will be able to win the leadership of the government due to the absence of the coalition and the victory still assigned today by the latest poll. reported by Nando Pagnoncelli in the Corriere della Sera .
Giuliano Ferrara, a convinced supporter of Draghi at the Quirinale but a friend and joyful admirer of a Berlusconi to whom he owes both his brief experience as a minister in 1994 and the birth of his Foglio , has just written that "none of the fantasists want to give up their arms and surrender ahead of time ". And he indicated in the "explicit and irrational candidacy of the great Berlusconi, the great-grandfather" what "upsets the suffused presidential game, a little oblique, under the skin that is the tradition and pride of an institutional Republic with esoteric club rules", beyond which there is "the chatter about a thousand other possible solutions, at least virtually". Well written, in the manner of a Ferrara in shape. unlike the one who occasionally lets himself be carried away by reasoning of a deliberate extravagance or contortion.
A witness to the summit of the center-right held yesterday – I repeat – in the Roman villa of Berlusconi also helps to understand the situation: Ignazio La Russa, the most experienced of Giorgia Meloni's “brothers of Italy”. “He – he said speaking of Berlusconi – did not put forward his candidacy but we talked about it as if he had done so. I think he is doing polls to figure out how to widen a majority around his name: a transparent enlargement of the numbers. When he decides, I imagine he will appeal to everyone: Renzi, the Democratic Party, the Cinquestelle ”. Vast program, the good soul of De Gaulle would say.
On how it will end, the former defense minister said: “I don't even bet at Superenalotto, where billions are won. Let alone if I bet where nothing is won ". But perhaps in that nothingness there is already everything.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-natale/ on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 06:49:11 +0000.