I’ll tell you about the little Berlusconian fights in Forza Italia
What happens in Forza Italia. The Scratches of Damato
The war, brawl, crowds in Forza Italia, call it what you want, is all female, at least in appearances: Mariastella Gelmini against Licia Ronzulli with open cards, indeed very open, or Mara Carfagna in competition with her colleague not from the party but from the side Giorgia Meloni for a restructuring of the center-right of an openly and proudly conservative type, with the blessing of that sort of lay Pope who is also considered in scientific circles the former president of the Senate Marcello Pera. Lay Pope, the sympathetic Pera, due to his cultural affinity and personal friendship with Benedict XVI, the meritorious Pontiff with whom Pope Francis shares in the Vatican, albeit in different roles, the legacy of Christ.
It is stuff to make the nerves tremble in the wrists, but not for those of the disenchanted philosopher Pera, who recently arrived to joke about the candidacy without his knowledge at the Quirinale, before the center-right split ruinously over the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Casellati Alberti, politically stabbed by the snipers, and on the magistrate emeritus Carlo Nordio , finally adopted with cunning only by the party of Giorgia Meloni.
To divide Mariastella Gelmini and Licia Ronzulli was formally Massimiliano Salini, defended by Gelmini as regional coordinator of the party in Lombardy, a key region for Forza Italia, and reduced in rank and functions by Silvio Berlusconi to be replaced by his most faithful spokesperson Ronzulli. Who, as if to apologize to a furious Gelmini, was in turn downgraded to a simple soldier obedient to the orders of the "Arma", understood as that of Arcore, certainly not of the Carabinieri.
The one who deserved the understanding of at least his fellow journalists in this very hard battle, who reported it with a certain grace, was Antonio Tajani. Who was invested in public by the protests of Germini as the national coordinator of the party, as if these offices really had a content in a very personal political movement like that of Berlusconi. Even that of Beppe Grillo is no longer so personal, recently degraded on a political level from founder, guarantor and so on to consultant in some way paid with the communicative use of his blog, even if personal from the now Contiano party. Tajani, poor fellow, has unsuccessfully tried to calm Gelmini by recalling her to the reality of a political force as special as that of Berlusconi, who is generous with the tasks as Indro Montanelli was in his Giornale .
The truth is that the serious reason for the latest internal laceration at Forza Italia, waiting for the next one, is not Salini but the almost namesake Salvini, Matteo rather than Massimiliano. To whom Berlusconi has granted a privileged relationship, to the point of crowning him the only and true leader of Italy, even, despite his Europeanism and Atlanticism with alternating current, at least different from the direct current one claimed by the former Prime Minister. Pera noticed it and dumped the "captain", Berlusconi did not. Indeed, he pursues the project, or lets others in Forza Italia pursue him, of unitary lists with the League to avoid overtaking Meloni in the center-right.
A few days ago Salvini's revelation to Fatto Quotidiano was a little embarrassed to have preceded Giuseppe Conte in the request to Draghi not to provide any more military aid to Ukraine in order not to compromise the peace negotiations, even if unlikely, with a Putin worried more about losing his let other Russian soldiers, however, abandoned in Ukraine so as not to count them and have them buried at home amid the tears of certainly not grateful family members.
Faced with the submissiveness of his friend Silvio to Salvini, who knows if Marcello Dell'Utri has not returned to djre or invoke "Wake up Italy", as in the early years, when he complained as a joke, but not too much, of Gianni Letta's brake on pushing innovative of the blue party.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/forza-italia-cosa-succede/ on Tue, 17 May 2022 05:12:56 +0000.