I’ll tell you about the Pact of the Retort for the Quirinale
The Scratches of Damato
I would not want the Quirinale operation, of any possible outcome, from the now improbable and timely confirmation of Sergio Mattarella to the election "in five minutes" of Mario Draghi, to a single sign of his consent or interest, with Daniele Franco moved to the Palazzo Chigi, should bear the unfortunate name of La Storta: the suburb of Northern Rome where the Germans fleeing in 1944 exterminated 14 prisoners.
Goffredo Bettini, animator and so on of the Democratic Party and his interlocutors on duty, wanted to bring together a hundred friends and companions to celebrate his 69 years in the two-storey house made available to him by the "historic" driver Libero Bozzi and consort. Who cooked for them lasagna, meatballs with sauce, pasta and chickpeas, sautéed vegetables and who knows what else hidden from the Repubblica journalist Giovanna Vitale, author designated for a scoop that – sorry for the malice – does not seem random to me in the turbid climate in the which, willy-nilly, they wanted to confine discussions, negotiations, contacts and so on on the Quirinale those who do not want to discuss it publicly, in regular party meetings or assemblies of parliamentary groups.
There was everything and everyone among the guests summoned by Bettini to the driver's cottage: from party mates Andrea Orlando, Dario Franceschini and Nicola Zingaretti to the president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte, who arrived with the usual delay just explained in an interview in the Corriere della Sera by professor Guido Alpa , with the obstinacy to use a non-automatic watch that the former prime minister systematically forgets to recharge; from the mayors of Rome and Naples to quite a few councilors and to Gianni Letta in the double role, I assume even here maliciously, as plenipotentiary of Silvio Berlusconi, who trusts him more than his children and his lifelong fraternal friends, and as an uncle by the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta. Who, by avoiding going to the appointment in person, at least wanted to spare himself the blatant violation of the "moratorium" – remember? – set up and proposed to all, pending at least the formal convocation of the Chambers and the 59 regional delegates, in the first days of January, for the election of the President of the Republic. Which, however, will not even be enough to open the windows, so to speak, of who knows what confrontation or public discussion because the Chamber of Deputies, where the so-called great electors will meet, will only be a polling station. It can only be accessed to vote, and by strictly secret ballot, ie with a sniping license against any indications of the reference groups and parties or movements.
Thinking about it, we would have to shudder in front of similar parliamentary and political bullfights, preferred to the direct election of the President of the Republic or at least to a discipline of candidacies leaving the indirect election. Yet this is how they wanted to leave things since 1948, when the Republican Constitution came into force. And it is a true miracle that with this type of rules Italy was able to have presidents of the Republic such as Luigi Einaudi, Giovanni Gronchi, Giovanni Leone, Sandro Pertini, Francesco Cossiga, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Giorgio Napolitano and the outgoing Mattarella. Any omission, in the list of tenants who have succeeded the Quirinale, is naturally intentional, and motivated even in the silence imposed by the exhaustion of the self-assigned space.
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-il-patto-della-storta-per-il-quirinale/ on Sun, 07 Nov 2021 07:15:19 +0000.