Does Pure Monti pamper Melons?
Surprise impressions and advice from Mario Monti to Giorgia Meloni. The Scratches of Damato
To hear and see Mario Monti, more red in the face than usual, he too winks at Giorgia Meloni and practically predicts her success at Palazzo Chigi, also in order not to turn back "ten years" – he said – female condition in Italy, frankly it was hard to believe him. And when a journalist guest of Lilli Gruber in the television studio of Otto e mezzo , on La 7, joking about his personal relationships with the candidate for leadership of the government, which are perhaps troubling the closest and official collaborators of the interested party, threw it there the idea of Monti "adviser" or "consultant" of Palazzo Chigi, I wondered if there was or if he did.
But not only. I immediately remembered the image of that first press conference of the then Prime Minister Monti in which another woman of whom he was an admirer, having made her Minister of Labor, in tears apologized for the social security tightening she had had to pay. . Naturally, I am referring to Professor Elsa Fornero, who miraculously survived that experience on a physical level, and to Matteo Salvini's propaganda and political retaliation.
It seems that Monti sees Meloni now on the right path of a substantial, progressive rethinking of the electoral program of the center-right, too expensive for Italian conditions. Resigned, therefore, to take into account a certain unpopularity that could give her the adventure at Palazzo Chigi. Where a piece of advice – completely free, from senator to life – gave it to him live: that of "not embarking on people whose purpose, despite being allies, is its failure".
Who it would be is very easy to imagine: of course, the aforementioned Salvini, who craves – according to chronicles, background and so on – to return to the Viminale as in the days of the first government of Giuseppe Conte, or to fall back on some other less heavy department in exchange for being paired with a vice presidency of the Council. To anticipate Meloni's response or reaction, Stefano Rolli has provided with his usual stinging cartoon for Il Secolo XIX , in which “Matté” is declassified in Roman dialect by the winner of the elections.
I must tell you frankly that, of all the crises of opening or interlude of the legislature that I happened to follow between the various editions of the Republic offered to us by political science, this one still awaiting the ritual consultations at the Quirinale seems to me the least worried. The warrior Beppe Grillo will certainly not be able to agitate it with the "citizenship brigades" he has just proposed on his blog to flank Conte in the march to the left. Nor will the usual news of the quartermaster's office about the too many ambitions – as usual – existing with respect to the available posts, for technicians and non-technicians, in a bit of all the parties interested in the formation of the government. Meloni will at least make her first government, without having to blame herself for "messes up" which she has always smelled like in the past and does not feel threatened, now that it is her turn to navigate in Parliament and its surroundings. In short, his plane will take off. And Monti will not deny her the applause of chivalrous encouragement in the favor of Palazzo Madama.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/monti-meloni/ on Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:24:42 +0000.