I’ll tell you about the latest ballets in the center-right and center-left
What happens in the center-right and the center-left. The latest news seen by Francesco Damato
Putin's war on the Ukrainians blessed – let's not forget – by the Patriarch of Moscow, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the Elysée and the holding of Europe and NATO to the test they have been put by the Kremlin have upset the more or less wide fields of Italian politics, already suffering from them for the electoral campaigns of the administrative offices in June and next year's general, except for an advance to the autumn of this crowded 2022.
The more or less wide fields of Italian politics are naturally those of the center-left, extended first by Nicola Zingaretti and then by Enrico Letta to the new and alleged pentastellated progressives of Giuseppe Conte and the guarantor now also consultant Beppe Grillo, and of the center-right of which Silvio Berlusconi he is more and more just the founder. Still considering him the actual boss is respectful of his person, and of his age, but not of reality. He is rather a blazoned spectator of the race leading the center-right in progress, with no holds barred, between the now declining Matteo Salvini and the ascendant Giorgia Meloni, who is now also free of the ghost of Giorgio Almirante, with his republican past, thanks to the death of his over 100-year-old wife Assunta. I write it with all the sympathy that the lady had earned and deserved in life, for her frankness and vigor, well beyond the political spectrum to which she belongs.
Between the two competitors, Berlusconi is all too clearly in favor of Salvini, personally crowned by him as the “true and only leader” of Italy in the recent wedding feast with the honorable cohabitant Marta Fascina. But, looking closely at the political positions of the two competitors, the former prime minister should find himself and feel more in tune with his former minister. Who, proudly declared "conservative", is more pro-European, or less anti-European or sovereign, and more Western and Atlanticist than the other, refractory to the evolution recommended to him within the post-Bossian League by the influential minister, and a friend of the head of the government in office, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
The news about Salvini's meeting in Rome with the somewhat Putinian Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban , even though he had just received the Pope at the Vatican and thanked him for the Hungarian doors left open to Ukrainians fleeing their lands, are still fresh from the press. devastated. Equally fresh from the press are the compliments made by the League's “captain” to the defeat of Marine Le Pen rather than to the winner of the new edition of the Elysée race. The tenant of which confirmed for another five years has unanimously appeared in Europe with relief as the guarantor of the continuity of the integration process, including political, and not only economic, of the old continent.
The difficulties, contradictions and so on of the center-right, despite the government of many Italian regions, but about to come out of the spring and autumn elections in Sicily, regional forerunner of many national political changes, are a bit the ointment with which on the left the secretary of the Democratic Party spreads the wounds caused him daily by the majority cohabitation with Giuseppe Conte. Who, now also thanks to the paid consultancy of Beppe Grillo in communication, not exactly the best aesthetic for a statute "guarantor", has just treated the Prime Minister like any opponent, called – in particular – to report to Parliament on his intentions and on his line before going to Washington from Biden and to Kiev from Zelensky. And to send the latter some crawlers and missiles, and not just bulletproof vests and rifles to defend themselves from the Russian aggressors and perhaps counterattack them. Meanwhile, Grillo from his blog no longer so personal, given the expenses now covered by the MoVimento, or by what remains of it between Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama, winks a little at the Chinese – whose diplomatic representation in Rome knows well – because don't just leave the Kremlin.
Nice wide field, no doubt about it. Poor Enrico Letta will have to consume some ointment, at least between now and the elections.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/centrodestra-centrosinistra-novita/ on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:16:57 +0000.