European sticks in Giorgia Meloni’s wheels
Meloni's opponents fear the possibility that the premier will be able to conquer even the European Union from within. Damato's Scratches
Protected by his own surname from the risk of being canceled, poor Sabino Cassese at the age of 87, although not yet completed, could not avoid sarcasm due to the habit he has taken of not participating in the demonization of Giorgia Meloni. That everything would now chase and overwhelm, even outside its fortress of Palazzo Chigi: even in the Quirinale of the sober and perhaps too patient Sergio Mattarella, who helped her feel at home even on the highest hill on the seventy-seventh birthday of the Republic. At the eighty-third, in 2029, she could even happen to be the president, having in the meantime passed the minimum age of 50 prescribed by the Constitution.
WHAT CASSESE THINKS ABOUT MELONI AND THE COURT OF AUDITORS
To the imprudence, let's call it that, already committed not necessarily seeing the harm in everything the first Italian prime minister does, says and hopes, moreover right-wing, indeed considering "blessed" all the surprises that Meloni is reserving as an Atlanticist and pro-European, Cassese also wanted to add that of not running to the Court of Auditors to defend its headquarters and tenants from that sort of assault carried out by the government in retaliation against judgments and critical forecasts on the way in which it is managing the recovery and resilience plan.
At that point the emeritus professor, minister, constitutional judge became on the Fatto Quotidiano – and where else? – the "adopted legal carer" by Meloni, a talkative speck deserving of "at least three" of Leo Longanesi's famous aphorisms listed in this order: "He doesn't understand anything, but with great authority and competence. We must not lean too much on principles because then they bend. Our national flag should bear a large inscription: I have family”.
In this last regard, it is no coincidence that Meloni's more or less extended family has already fallen under journalistic investigations which some probably hope will sooner or later be translated into judicial investigations. On the contrary, with everything that we have been experiencing for more than thirty years between political and judicial news, it is surprising that we have not already arrived at it in the case of the Prime Minister, the mother, the sister, the stepsisters, the brother-in-law, of the friends or associates of a disreputable or not at all recommendable father, lost before, long before his physical death.
WILL MELONI CONQUER EUROPE?
What Meloni's opponents – without the slightest remorse for not having heard her coming, as Elly Schlein says of herself after conquering the Democratic Party and taking it to the first electoral baths – now feel with an even greater obsession than that shown last autumn , due to the coincidence between her arrival at Palazzo Chigi and the first centenary of the fascist march on Rome, is the possibility that the prime minister will be able to conquer even the European Union from within. And make of it, with a new majority in the Strasbourg Parliament that will be elected next year, what the former director of Espresso Carlo Damilano called "a saloon" on Domani , the newspaper that Carlo De Benedetti gave himself as a gift to console himself of the Republic lost by his children even before selling it.
A EUROPEAN CENTRE-RIGHT
A centre-right also in Europe just as hoped for by Silvio Berlusconi, with the conservatives proudly led at the continental level by Meloni in place of the socialists in the alliance with the popular ones of the former chancellor Angela Merkel and some of her illustrious predecessors, from Adenauer to Kool, would be “dominated by the balance of power”. As if this hadn't already happened up to now, with the strength precisely obtained by the various parties in the electoral competitions they almost measured themselves. A strange saloon, to say the least.
What dismays these and analogous reasoning or representations is also the claim to charge the fault, the greater responsibility, call it what you will, of a center-right also in Europe to the right -the hated right- and not also to the blessed and sanctified center if allied with the left. It is as if in Italy at the time when the conditions for the birth of the centre-left matured, first with the hyphen and then without it, the liberals of Giovanni Malagodi who paid the price if they hadn't taken it out against the Christian Democrats, to whom the Pli in 1963 he managed to steal quite a few votes precisely in view of that turning point, but with Pietro Nenni's socialists. Who had played their political game in the light of day, freeing themselves from the asphyxiating embrace with the communists which translated into the defeated popular front in 1948. And the PSI then managed to carry that game forward with such coherence and courage as Bettino Craxi had that it extended the centre-left to liberals themselves in the famous five-party formula.
That was called and was democracy, of which traces have evidently been lost after the fall of the so-called first Republic due to the disappearance not of ideologies, as we are used to repeating like parrots, but simply, or banally, of the common sense of Manzoni's memory, remembered in these days of celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of the most genuinely Italian of our writers.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giorgia-meloni-sabino-cassese/ on Sat, 10 Jun 2023 05:05:55 +0000.