I’ll tell you about the umpteenth defeat of the anti-Berlusconi
Reactions and political effects of the acquittal sentence for Berlusconi. Paola Sacchi's Note
A leader and the party he founded are counted over a hundred times, more or less the number of trials Silvio Berlusconi has been subjected to. Game over, incautiously decreed by opponents for the Cav, is due to the thirty-year political use of justice.
It is the blue group leaders Licia Ronzulli and Alessandro Cattaneo, with the deputy head of the press office Paolo Emilio Russo, who break the news in the parliamentary halls of the acquittal because the fact does not exist on the Ruby ter, rattling off the impressive figures of the judicial fury which was subjected the president of Forza Italia, founder of the center-right, former prime minister four times: “Acsolved 135 times in 136 trials. More than 600 hearings, thousands of euros spent by Italian taxpayers. Now a commission of inquiry into the political use of justice, now a profound and structural reform of justice against the political, media, judicial pillory, against barbarism”. “And for all those citizens who don't have the means to be able to defend themselves,” Ronzulli underlines.
The top manager, president of Mondadori and Fininvest, Marina Berlusconi, and with her sister Barbara Berlusconi, daughters of the former prime minister, simultaneously with satisfaction point the finger at "the too high price paid, even by millions of voters". Also in terms of "health", attacks Barbara. For Marta Fascina, a blue deputy, companion of the Cav, "a very painful period is coming to an end". “Under the mud, nothing”, is the full-page headline today in Il Giornale di Augusto Minzolini.
After the electoral one of Lombardy and Lazio, with the clear affirmation of the center-right , another sound slap arrives to a left-wing opposition and its media that ride the thirty-year political use of justice and now find themselves picking up the pieces of a defeat election, which also had an impact on the "manettarism" for political opponents no longer in tune with the real country.
We cling to the "Epperò", in the new media group of the "epperoppisti", looking every time on everything, in spite of the real facts, for a quibble, or a horsehair, paraphrasing an old song, which undermines the majority of center-right strengthened by the electoral data at the helm of the country.
Some chronicles go nitpicking even on the fact that it was the MEPs from FI who applauded in the classroom. Perhaps it did not occur to a certain permanent anti-Berlusconism, regardless, since 1994, that perhaps the allies of the FdI and the Lega wanted to leave that moment out of respect to "a leader and an entire community affected by its voters", as he said the blue coordinator, deputy premier, foreign minister Antonio Tajani. Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, deputy prime minister, minister of infrastructure and transport, almost simultaneously with the release of the sentence, rejoices in the acquittal of "Silvio", after years of "suffering, insults, useless controversies".
The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni intervenes, with an official note from Palazzo Chigi, shortly after the post: "The acquittal of Silvio Berlusconi is excellent news that puts an end to a long judicial affair that has had important repercussions also in the life Italian politics and institutions. On my behalf and on behalf of the Government, I address President Berlusconi with affectionate greetings”.
A declaration of full, absolute support that is not affected by perhaps different sensitivities in the premier's party regarding the immediate establishment of a commission of inquiry. But the words of the group leader of FdI in the Chamber Tommaso Foti are also clear: “A sincere hug to Berlusconi. Shame on the left that for years has sided with this persecution”. The former president of the Senate, Marcello Pera, to Il Giornale : "A damage to Italy's image too".
The blue general staff rejoices for the acquittal of the Cav, with the vice presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Maurizio Gasparri and Giorgio Mulè, the former president of the Senate, minister for Reforms, Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, the minister of the University Annamaria Bernini, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Maria Tripodi. But everyone is talking about the bitterness and the political damage done.
The news shows archive images of Berlusconi embracing the FI senator, president of the Foreign and Defense Commission of Palazzo Madama, Stefania Craxi, daughter of a lifelong friend, the statesman "Bettino", for whom less than a month ago, on the anniversary of his death, Berlusconi pointed his finger, with a message to the initiatives of the Craxi Foundation in Hammamet, clearly saying that "his exile must be a warning to the political use of justice".
Senator Craxi, congratulating Berlusconi, affirms that "judicial fury remains a black page in the history of the Republic". Finally he, Berlusconi, after a few hours, on social profiles: "Finally acquitted after more than 11 years of suffering, mud and incalculable political damage because I was lucky enough to be judged by Magistrates who knew how to remain independent, impartial and fair faced with the unfounded accusations that had been made against me". Elly Schlein, among the candidates to lead the Democratic Party: "We are still talking about Berlusconi". Yes, him again.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-assoluzione-reazioni/ on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:18:30 +0000.