Does Berlusconi dissociate himself from Meloni and Salvini on Europeanism?
What did Berlusconi say and what did he make to understand. The Scratches of Damato
It may not have been the "atomic bomb" emphasized with a certain complacency by the Reformist , but it was certainly a surprise that Silvio Berlusconi reserved for Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, warning them publicly that his party will not enter the new or will come out of it. the pro-European and Atlanticist line will be clear. The "father", whom he recently declared that he feels respect for his allies by talking about them with a mixture of affection and trust, has already summed up the role of the decisive partner of the alliance, ready to nullify even his victory in the elections on 25 September if the partners wanted to take too much liberty in foreign policy.
Perhaps, in breaking up with brothers of Italy and leaguers, or only with one or the other, Berlusconi could also reopen the games – if the numbers exist – for that "Ursula majority" that occasionally echoes in the political debate: Ursula naturally named after the President of the European Union Commission von der Leyen and the line-up that supports her in the Strasbourg Parliament. Where leaguers and brothers of Italy, on the other hand, have just found themselves together among the 123 who defended the Hungary of the pro-utinian Viktor Orban from the accusations of illiberality of the 433 who asked the Executive Commission for censures and sanctions.
Berlusconi did not feel like turning his head away pretending not to have seen, heard and understood. He did not feel it especially in the contingency created with the extended suspicion, willy-nilly, by the Americans even on Italian destinations – excluded only "for now", according to the president of the Parliamentary Security Committee of the Republic, Adolfo Urso – of the 300 million dollars spent by Russia since 2014 to procure political support abroad.
Already in difficulty due to his past relationships of strong personal friendship with Putin, so much so that he ran to him in 2015 in Crimea to be pleased with the annexation of that land to Russia, Berlusconi can understandably no longer lower his guard on the terrain of Atlanticism and of Europeanism while the Kremlin does not attenuate but increases the aggression that exploded with the war on Ukraine.
Of the two internal allies of the Knight, even if occasionally there are also allusions to Giorgia Meloni, the most exposed to suspicions, fears and anything else about the material available to the Americans, rightly or wrongly is Salvini. It is no coincidence that he is the one who first threatened complaints in defense of his own integrity and that of the party. But Salvini is also the one – always between the two center-right allies – with which Berlusconi seemed to get along better, at least until the day before yesterday: so much in agreement that he was recently abandoned for this by the now former government force ministers Draghi, that is Mara Carfagna, Renato Brunetta and Maria Stella Gelmini.
The founder Giuliano Ferrara, friend and former minister and adviser of Berlusconi, deals with Salvini today in an editorial that somewhat lightens his position and somewhat aggravates it in a disenchanted vision of politics, where – Ferrara remembered – there has never been a lack of foreign aid to parties.
"Salvini invotable, dangerous, grotesquely displaced by the history of recent years – wrote the founder of the Foglio – is not an unknown KGB agent, he is not a politician corrupted by rubles, he is the leader who has openly bet on a model unbearable for our way of conceiving life and the exercise of civil rights in a democratic country. The forty-eight flavor of these elections… ..is all here, in a scandal that is elsewhere from where one hypocritically wants to see it. Pointillism, which for Berlusconi is a personal friendship,…. For Meloni an apparently rejected temptation, for Salvini…. It is a second, not a first skin ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-si-smarca-da-meloni-e-salvini-sulleuropeismo/ on Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:38:48 +0000.