I’ll tell you about Mastella’s archcontism
Life, works and aspirations of Clemente Mastella, from Benevento with fury and passion for the Conte
Luckily there is the mayor of Benevento Clemente Mastella, former Minister of Labor with the center-right of Silvio Berlusconi and Minister of Justice with the center-left of Romano Prodi.
This strange crisis-not crisis of government , sought by Matteo Renzi with the withdrawal of his two ministers but denied him by the Prime Minister Conte, would have been either a boredom or a fear both terrible both if an almost bipartisan Mastella had not taken the field , in fact.
My old friend Clemente, whom I have known for a very long time now, since he helped me amicably to compose the always provisional maps of the various currents of the Christian Democracy, sitting talking on some sofa in Montecitorio, tears you a smile for his sympathetic imprint with the which he himself describes the work he does behind and in front of the scenes to compose political mosaics in which everyone, for now with the exception of Matteo Salvini, can find themselves sooner or later.
There are those who enjoy laughing, even out loud, at the jokes and performances of Beppe Grillo, which actually thinned out even before the viral pandemic broke out and emptied the theaters, and those who are content to smile at the jokes and initiatives of the most harmless Mastella. Which at least had the good fortune for Italy to create and undo after the Christian Democratic experience in the shadow of Ciriaco De Mita small parties, and not a movement capable of even replacing the DC as a relative majority force. Grillo, on the other hand, has succeeded and does not want the spell to end with an early dissolution of the Chambers.
Occasionally someone complains or threatens this dissolution, however objectively made difficult by a declared emergency with lots of legislative and real provisions in times of epidemic and consequent economic and social crisis. But the Americans, it is argued, have just voted the same and others are preparing to do so in Europe and elsewhere. But in the United States this could also happen thanks to the postal vote, admitted in Italy only for Italians residing abroad. And in any case we have seen with what disputes and effects, including a retaliatory assault on Parliament with dead and wounded.
On the phone 24 hours a day, between the Municipality of Benevento and his villa in Ceppaloni, known for the mussel-shaped pool around which many, rich and poor, famous and not, gathered, Mastella has in fact opened and he manages branches of the Quirinale and Palazzo Chigi with the usual ease and swagger, depending on the circumstances and the interlocutors. "I am the doctor of the crisis", said the President of the Republic, who in this field probably feels, and rightly so, the only one who can issue prescriptions, prescribe treatments and perform interventions. surgical procedures such as the dissolution of the Chambers.
Giver of advice, as well as of therapies, Mastella said, among other things, not to frequent the Prime Minister, who also tries to help by getting him parliamentary friends willing to support him. She only met him in October 2019, with De Mita and other friends of the dissolved DC, at the commemoration of Fiorentino Sullo, entrusted to Conte in a theater in Avellino by the president of the homonymous foundation Gianfranco Rotondi, deputy of Forza Italia. That he would have liked to give the speaker, at the end of the speech, a DC card if he could have had one. And Conte smiled, pleased and available for other commemorations that could further accredit him in the vein of Catholics engaged in politics, an admirer as had already been declared of the late and fellow countryman Aldo Moro. Even Mattarella has somehow compared him to him in recent days, even though he considered him inferior to him, a little “son and withincchia” which Moro from the height of his authority certainly could not be stamped.
In honor of the Contian land of origin, Mastella said he was the head of the "beggars of Voltura Appula", emulating other beggars: those of Valmy exhumed in 1998 by Francesco Cossiga, with Mastella himself in tow, to give Massimo D'Alema the parliamentary numbers necessary to guarantee him a majority in the succession to Romano Prodi at Palazzo Chigi, after Fausto Bertinotti had brought him down from the left. The "beggars" of Cossiga and Mastella instead came from the center-right. And they knew how to win D'Alema like the real ones of Valmy in 1792, they procured a sensational victory for revolutionary and shabby France over the Prussian and Austrian troops launched towards Paris.
Of a curiosity, let's call it that, Mastella and his wife Alessandrina Lonardo, former forceist senator nominated by the newspapers as minister of the Family in the Conte government possibly reshuffled, are unable to understand: the fact that Pd and grillini, beneficiaries of Clemente's therapies, want to Benevento prevent his re-election as mayor in the spring. Ungrateful who are nothing else.
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-larcicontismo-di-mastella/ on Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:00:52 +0000.