Draghi, Giorgetti and Buridano’s donkey
The Scratches of Damato
Mario Draghi – a mutual friend assures me who knows him well and frequents him – has no neck. That is, he does not suffer from neck pain, even if at 74 years of age, however well worn, he could well run into it sooner or later. If he gets dizzy during these hours, his cervical vertebrae are not the cause. Rather, politics now has the headache after a crazy legislature like the one that began three and a half years ago, and a few days after a round of administrative and supplementary elections, which could cause everything, but also nothing.
Il Foglio by Giuliano Ferrara and Claudia Cerasa – who first launched Draghi's candidacy at the Quirinale for a good purpose, from his point of view, and certainly not to see him "fuck", as Alessandro Di Battista wished instead, for now fortunately committed only to supporting the unlikely confirmation of Virginia Raggi as mayor of Rome – he reported today of an irritated prime minister. And this is due to the insistence with which his friend and colleague in government Giancarlo Giorgetti is also supporting his election to the highest hill in Rome. He feels besieged – it seems to understand from the background chronicle of the Foglio – by “those who push him away to keep him and those who hold him away” from Palazzo Chigi.
In this situation, the Prime Minister even risks ending up like Buridan's famous donkey, destined to die of his indecision to choose between two haystacks to draw from to eat. But, to tell the truth, leaving without denial a background of a few days ago Draghi has shown that he likes, at least for now, Palazzo Chigi al Quirinale, where he would like Sergio Mattarella to be re-elected for the time necessary for two equally useful events, or appropriate. One is the continuation of the current government's action to carry out the recovery plan and the related reforms, the other the dissolution of the quirinal knot in a Parliament, the next, in a year, fully legitimized in its new numerical consistency – from 945 elective seats to 600, between the Chamber and the Senate – and equally new political geography, with the end of the paradoxical relative majority won in 2018 by a movement like the Grillino one.
Committed only a few weeks ago, during a press conference, to recognize the solidity or incontrovertibility of the Salvinian leadership of the League, of which he basically understood, tolerated and so on the fluctuations denounced instead by the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta, eager to get rid of such an uncomfortable majority shareholder, Draghi suddenly found himself facing a crisis of that same leadership caused even by his best friend in the League, who is Minister Giorgetti. “There will be only one”, between Salvini and Giorgetti, was the headline of La Repubblica today, which is not an inexperienced newspaper.
Anxiety, disbelief and so on will have grown in a man who is used to seeing and hearing all the colors from the many important positions occupied in his long national and international career, finding Giorgetti's offensive not only played also on the hypothesis of the current Prime Minister at the Quirinale in a few months, but which developed in tandem with that "media crap" that Salvini indicated in the judicial drug affair, let's call it that, of his former spokesman and still friend Luca Morisi. Dizzy stuff, even for one – I repeat – like Draghi, who does not suffer from neck pain.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-giorgetti-e-lasino-di-buridano/ on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:50:12 +0000.