I’ll tell you about the latest paper wars on Quirinale and Berlusconi
Gushes on the newspapers on the race to the Quirinale and opposing appeals against Berlusconi …
For the Quirinale we have now arrived at the "borsino", like that of Antonio Polito published today in the Corriere della Sera . In the upper echelons of politics, let's put it this way, the old comedy of polite or reticent waiting for the formal convocation of the Chambers in joint session for the election of the new President of the Republic continues, if indeed it will be new.
Polito adhered to a prudential rule, wanting to remain in the logic of a quiet race to the Quirinale, for the election of a candidate with a large majority, and not of a "bullfight" to make the capable aspiring prevail from the fourth ballot onwards. to collect "only" the absolute majority, and therefore still qualified, of the assembly composed – let us remember – even of about fifty regional delegates.
Well, the one who has the best chance – estimated at around 80 percent – of gathering a larger majority, avoiding the government crisis just envisaged or threatened by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta – is Mario Draghi for the Corriere analyst. Who has enough professional experience not to be mistaken for a visionary.
Always in the borsino, the senator and former president of the Chamber Pier Ferdinando Casini follows with 65 percent, the former prime minister and current vice president of the Constitutional Court Giuliano Amato with 55 percent, the former president of the Constitutional Court and current Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia with 50 per cent, Silvio Berlusconi and the former Minister of Justice Paola Severino with 35 per cent.
An implicit term re-election of Mattarella was not even taken into consideration by Polito due to the persistent unavailability of the interested party, at least in words, or for more or less encrypted messages, to this hypothesis which instead continues to be cultivated in the palaces of politics, as it already happened with success in 2013 for Giorgio Napolitano. A half hypothesis of term election was instead proposed by Polito for Giuliano Amato due to his 83 years, which would obviously make him vulnerable, so to speak. Thus thought in 1978 the good soul of the Christian Democrat Flaminio Piccoli also of the socialist Sandro Pertini, elected at 82 but happily remained in office for the seven years of his mandate, even aspiring to re-election at the ripe old age of almost 90.
That 35 percent perhaps already too optimistically attributed to Berlusconi was not enough to reassure the most irreducible opponents of the former prime minister. The increasingly terrified Marco Travaglio has mobilized against the election by an "only" absolute majority, with a convergence between the center-right, Renzians and the mixed media. Who today on the Fatto Quotidiano also took it out on his "love" – they would say to the Foglio – Giuseppe Conte for not having yet clearly said no to Berlusconi as an " old prejudiced whoremonger and financier of the mafia".
For a level playing field, let's say, also comforted by the "vulgar and offensive" given to Travaglio by the former president of the Chamber Luciano Violante, of whose vote to Berlusconi I would doubt even if I saw it, the Libero newspaper directed by Alessandro Sallusti has promoted a ' another petition to say "NO to those who want to steal the Quirinale". Berlusconi probably liked.
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-le-ultime-guerre-di-carta-su-quirinale-e-berlusconi/ on Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:35:36 +0000.