I’ll tell you about the surprising Zagrebelsky and Salvini
What Zagrebelsky and Salvini said. Damato's Scratches
Despite the embarrassment of not dwelling enough on tragedies like those that are taking place in Gaza or in our very civilized – we believed – Europe, where anti-Semitism has returned not only by defacing the walls but also by attempting to kill a woman in her home just because she is Jewish; Despite this embarrassment, I repeat, I want to tell you the story of two miracles offered to us by Italian politics. One of which is fake – I immediately warn – but equally indicative of something that could evolve on the left, and the other is authentic and concerns the centre-right majority. Or right-centre, with the hyphen, as they understandably prefer to call it on the main floor of Palazzo Chigi.
THE MIRACLE OF ZAGREBELSKY
The first miracle – fake, I repeat – bears the name of the eighty-year-old and highly authoritative president emeritus of the Constitutional Court Gustavo Zagrebelsky, professor of constitutional law, who failed to be President of the Republic in at least one of the editions of the race for the Quirinale in the last century. It consists in the professor's decision to distinguish himself from the secretary of his party, Elly Schlein, who has opened a frontal fight against the constitutional reform just unanimously approved by the Council of Ministers, as aggressive as the Nazarene is claimed to be the same reform Meloni, let's call it that, regarding the current system.
Zagrebelsky, however, unlike himself when he opposed the Renzi reform in the 2016 referendum and contributed to its rejection, this time preferred to indulge in irony by disguising himself as an optimist, as "one who thinks positively and not negatively".
Zagrebelsky, who places his intimately oppositional trust in the ability of the minor parties of the current majority to realize that they would cease to exist in the system proposed by the government bill, wrote about the reform in Repubblica as he was not even able to talk about it, in an interview satisfied to Corriere della Sera , the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa.
THE POSTILLA OF THE REPUBLIC
Even the editor of La Repubblica felt it necessary to warn readers, in an anonymous note, that his authoritative collaborator must not be misunderstood. And he bothered the late Norberto Bobbio to remind us that "optimists are not always fatuous but fatuous people are always optimistic". It is therefore better to argue heavily, with insults and the like.
THE MIRACLE OF SALVINI
The other miracle bears the name of Matteo Salvini, who in the square yesterday in Milan definitively buried – I hope – the Salvini who winked at the anti-Ukrainian and pro-Hamas Putin.
The new Salvini, described in a happy summary by Stefano Zurlo on the front page of the newspaper , is the one who called those who participate in the so-called pacifist demonstrations "fascist", preferring Hamas to Israel, terrorism to democracy, the aggressor to the attacked . Welcome back, or well arrived, as you prefer, to the Northern League vice president of the Council in a happy combination between the square and the government, at least in a Euro-Atlantic country like this.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/zagrebelsky-salvini/ on Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:47:49 +0000.