Ferrara drops Berlusconi and embraces the center-left and Draghi
The turning point of Giuliano Ferrara (Il Foglio) and the latest phone calls from Berlusconi and Draghi
Evidently convinced by a well-known and happy advertising message that a phone call can lengthen your life, even as a candidate for the Quirinale, Mario Draghi has entrusted this message to a minister, so far collected and relaunched only by Annalisa Cuzzocrea in the press , on the front page: “If it were my turn to be chosen for the Quirinale, I certainly could not indicate a successor or develop a new executive. I would leave politics free. It would be the leaders who would find an agreement among themselves ”.
Barring unlikely denials, the Prime Minister has thus sought to reassure skeptics, critics and even opponents by sterilizing the prerogatives of the head of state most feared by the parties, especially in their worst moments, when they are in crisis of perspectives and even of identity.
The first prerogative, in strictly numerical order according to how the Constitution was written and approved, is that of Article 88: "The President of the Republic, after hearing their Presidents, dissolve the Chambers or even one of them". The second prerogative is that of article 92: "The President of the Republic appoints the President of the Council of Ministers and, upon his proposal, the ministers". Just name, without having to hear anyone on paper. So much so that consultations for solutions to government crises are only a practice, albeit consolidated, not prescribed by the Constitution. And in fact in the last crisis, convinced that it was not the case to dissolve the Chambers and send the Italians to the polls in full pandemic, therefore at risk of contagion, Sergio Mattarella entrusted the formation of the new government to Draghi himself, on his own complete, autonomous initiative. .
We will see if this message, so respectful, so open to parties, will pass through the bottleneck of the race to the Quirinale, wanting to paraphrase today's happy title of the usual manifesto, and will prevail over other phone calls that the newspapers have been dealing with for days: those that alone or with the support of his friend and deputy Vittorio Sgarbi Silvio Berlusconi is doing it to convince the so-called great undecided voters to vote for him. Phone calls that seem to have bothered Matteo Salvini, although formally committed to supporting his ally's quirinal ambitions, and are now sbertucciato even by a newspaper that is certainly not disliking Berlusconi like Il Foglio . Whose founder and former minister of Berlusconi, Giuliano Ferrara, was keen to reiterate his support for Draghi for the Quirinale.
Read, in particular, what Ferrara wrote : "I must specify that I, an old Berlusconian pirate for a long time in disuse, always in love with the meaning of that adventure but conformistically reentered for some time in the normal routine of the craziest and at the same time stupid political nomenclature of world, in the most derelict political area of the universe after that on the right, that is, the center-left and in my modest role as observer and retiree, I am in favor of the election to the Quirinale of Mario Draghi, as I have written a thousand times ". And with this it seems to me that the founder of the Foglio also wanted to dispel any misunderstanding about the human acknowledgments and appreciation of the Knight a few days ago, like this bittersweet: “Cav. he confirms himself, however things end in one of those daydreams that for his opponents is a nightmare, a giant of political opportunism, of timing, and a bestial, daring and tremendously strong-willed fighter ”.
"The uncertainties are many, the certainties are few and among the certainties – wrote the director of the Sheet Claudio Cerasa in that same, betting on a rethinking of Berlusconi – there is the awareness that ten years after having resigned from the Quirinale as president of the Council, to decide the future of the Quirinale, and that of the Prime Minister, are still the theatrical hits of the incredible Cav ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ferrara-molla-berlusconi-e-abbraccia-centrosinistra-e-draghi/ on Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:55:34 +0000.