Dragons, pigeons and Ferrari
Mario Draghi between pigeon shooting and racing in a subcompact. The Scratches of Damato
In this holy week, or of passion, the political controversy continues to develop often with the tones and ways of any week of Carnival. This is demonstrated by that title shot with an unsuccessful irony, if it wanted to be irony, on the entire first page of Libero. That practically attributing to the Prime Minister all or most of the responsibility for the inconveniences caused not by him but by the viral pandemic stubborn to persecute us, even among errors that, for heaven's sake, may have been committed at various levels of the so-called authorities in charge, therefore also at taller, the incoming "Easter of Burial" is reproached in black. And in red he explains that "Christ is resurrected, Italy is not".
The editor of Corriere della Sera , Luciano Fontana, tries in his own way to defend Draghi from criticism, pressure and anything else also coming from within his majority, as extensive as it is complicated, explaining to a reader: "There can naturally be differences of opinion in such a vast majority. It is right that they are discussed and addressed and that the prime minister gives his address. On the other hand, it is profoundly wrong to inaugurate a pigeon shooting and a daily crossfire. He is not serious about the difficulties we are experiencing ”.
It seems to me an apt comment, indeed a serious one, as opposed to the pigeon shooting in progress against Mario Draghi. Moreover, after having allowed, shared and so on the fluvial utterances of his predecessor Giuseppe Conte, now fortunately struggling silently with the grillino chaos, adjectives, nouns and mimics of the press conferences are examined under the microscope. That some also suspected that he did not want to do some kind of fear or perverse plan.
To the image of the pigeon under fire used by the editor of the Corriere, the good Massimiliano Panarari in La Stampa has preferred another to represent the "exceptional" and "anomalous" situation in which the Prime Minister is still freshly appointed and trusted. parliamentarian, one could say even if both are not exactly from yesterday or a few days ago. He wrote, in particular and with some effectiveness, that the good Draghi is a bit like "a Ferrari engine inserted in a small car", given the conditions in which the tenant of Palazzo Chigi inherited the political system, and even the institutional one. That, since no one was able to modernize – I allow myself to recall – due to the referendum rejections reserved by the sovereign people, as the Constitution says, that is, by the voters, to the reforms attempted by both the center-right and the center-left, it works as it does, that is, narrow gauge .
At the announcement of the decision of the head of state to finally send to Palazzo Chigi Draghi with all his experience and the prestige he has earned at an international level, a photo came to mind, in particular, among those of the assault that in 2015 in Frankfurt the then president of the European Central Bank during a press conference he had suffered from a young Caucasian demonstrator, who jumped on the table in protest to throw at him what later luckily turned out to be only confetti, and not bullets. Draghi had made a face between dismay and terror: the same -imagina- he had to do when receiving from Mattarella himself, as I understand, the phone call with which he was warned of the task that awaited him at the helm of the new Italian government.
Good work, Mr. Prime Minister.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-i-piccioni-e-la-ferrari/ on Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:13:23 +0000.