I’ll tell you about Giuliano Amato’s ballets
What Amato said about the (very unlikely) return to Palazzo Chigi, about the management of migrants and about Napolitano. Damato's Scratches
At 85 years of age, although very well suited and therefore not an obstacle to any new assignment, Giuliano Amato had an easy time pulling himself out of the competition in which others had entered him for the leadership of a new, albeit unlikely technical government, after those of Lamberto Dini, Mario Monti and Mario Draghi who succeeded during the so-called Second Republic. Which was also born in 1994 with the electoral victory of Silvio Berlusconi who was pushed to Palazzo Chigi directly by those who had voted for his candidacy in the polls, but appointed somewhat reluctantly by the then President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
This contributed significantly to the fall of the new Prime Minister in about nine months by a still unpredictable ally like Umberto Bossi. Who then personally told of the parties, or almost so, that Scalfaro gave him at the Quirinale when he began to show impatience and desire for a crisis, held back only by the fear of early elections of which the head of state freed him by promising not to resort to them if Berlusconi was was forced to resign. And in fact Treasury Minister Dini was called to succeed the Cavaliere as technician, lasting much longer than the four or five months that Berlusconi expected, saying that many had been promised to him at the Quirinale. Dini lasted more than a year, until early elections were held in the conditions in which the left believed it had equipped itself by successfully nominating Romano Prodi.
AMATO DOES NOT WANT TO RETURN TO PALAZZO CHIGI
But let's go back to Giuliano Amato and his little or no desire to return as a technician to Palazzo Chigi after having already been there as a politician in 1992 and 2000. Hypothesizing that "I don't know if it is more painful or more comical" at his age even though "in a Country of elderly people", said Amato, answering the last question of another interview given to him by Repubblica : less sensational than the one on the Ustica air massacre in 1980 but politically more meaningful and current, not surprisingly titled on the very burning issue of immigration so badly faced and managed by almost everyone in Europe. Where Amato does not give peace that "today we welcome", at least on paper, "those who are persecuted by a regime and we reject those who are persecuted by hunger". “This – he said – is unacceptable on a human rights level. Europe must recognize the status of economic refugee."
Prime Minister Meloni, who has projected herself a little too far forward with her so-called "Mattei plan" to combat poverty in Africa, will not have much approval. But to me the reasoning of the former Prime Minister and now president emeritus of the Constitutional Court seems reasonable to say the least, indeed due on a moral level, even if Maurizio Belpietro headlined his Truth against the "invasion of economic refugees" and accused Amato wanted to "impoverish" us way back in 1992, when his first government withdrew 6 per thousand from Italians' bank accounts overnight.
THE WORDS ABOUT NAPOLITANO
Since over the years it seems to me that he has taken a liking to displacing the interlocutor of the moment, in his new interview with Repubblica Amato he somehow wanted to return to the celebratory speech on Giorgio Napolitano, on the day of the state funeral in Montecitorio, to add what he had not said, I don't know if for reasons of time or opportunity, after a son of Napolitano himself had recognized "wrong causes" and not just right ones. Wrong causes – they had all appropriately thought – like that of 1956 for the Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolution, when the secretary of the PCI Palmiro Togliatti pleased himself by sipping red wine and L'Unità appeared all over the front page with this horrifying headline: "The gangs counter-revolutionaries are forced to surrender after their bloody attacks against the socialist power."
Well, despite having joined the PSI rather than the PCI precisely after the events in Hungary, a surprising Amato wanted to ask himself "almost seventy years later" if, by remaining in the communist party without dissenting men like Giorgio Napolitano, "those who were really wrong were they thought that dispersing that human heritage would be a mistake." “I exclude – Amato added or explained, as if to justify the late President Emeritus of the Republic – that Giorgio was personally sensitive to the myth of Moscow, which also had grotesque aspects, but it is a fact that it was an identity component that was long essential to preserve the unity" of the PCI, in fact also preferred by Giorgio Amendola to any other need or eventuality.
“Today I think back – insisted Amato – to the difficult choice of those who remained like Giorgio (Napolitano). I'm staying but I'll do everything I'm capable of – he said as his friend's ventriloquist in that horrible 1956 – to root my party in the Italian democratic system. An arduous and courageous undertaking." Which Amato evidently believes was carried out properly by Napolitano, without whom in fact the PCI would hardly have given up seeing Europe only as the continent of monopolies and capitalism. And therefore to oppose it.
But the surprises of Amato's encore at Repubblica don't end here. They go so far as to avoid the interviewee's attempt to extract a criticism from him of a right that, according to the interviewer Simonetta Fiori, is also visually cold, if not hostile to the dead Napolitano. “This of the two Italys – said Amato – is a recurring image in the news of funerals. I can only take note of it, not having been able to see the faces of those listening. And in any case we must appreciate that almost the entire government was present. What is certain is that these two Italys must dialogue with each other." Like it or not, especially in the place etymologically responsible for dialogue which is Parliament. How can you blame him?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-i-balletti-di-giuliano-amato/ on Sat, 07 Oct 2023 04:52:29 +0000.