I’ll tell you about the unbridled race of Conte and Di Maio in the center
What Di Maio and Conte do and what they say. The Scratches of Damato
Even if the final game has already been written in favor of Giuseppe Conte, who expects – as he told Lucia Annunziata on television – "a great investiture by the members" as head of the 5 Star Movement, evidently thanks to the designation made by the "Guarantor", "elevated", "irreplaceable" Beppe Grillo, it is now a competition between him and Luigi Di Maio on who goes further in the re-foundation, transformation, evolution and so on of the most voted force in the 2018 political elections.
Apart from the issue of justice, on which Conte wanted to stay a step behind after the apologies of the Foreign Minister to the former mayor Piddino of Lodi for the pillory practiced against him when he was arrested, only to be acquitted on appeal of the accusation of auction disruption, the two now chase each other in the electoral courtship, for example, of the moderates. Or of the "middle class", as Luigi Di Maio said in an interview with the Press, saying all the best possible, in particular recognizing that "no one takes care of it anymore, even though he pays taxes for everyone". After all, it too deserves the title of "honorable" just returned by Conte to the deputies and senators, telling the Annunziata that it no longer has a "defamatory" value. The abolition of which was even proposed by law by the grillini on their arrival in Parliament.
I don't know, frankly, if more out of conviction or out of irony, which is the only one for my part that can be shared, Di Maio's interviewer, Andrea Malaguti, compared the Foreign Minister even more to Giulio Andreotti, as he had already done in his time the editor of the Corriere della Sera Luciano Fontana, but to Arnaldo Forlani. That at the handsome age of 95 and a half years he has arrived, he will have jumped in his chair to be politically coupled with those who arrived at the Farnesina many years after him, appointed foreign minister of the single-color Christian Democratic government of Giulio Andreotti, supported externally by the communists at the time of the so-called "national solidarity", that is, in 1976.
According to the journalist of the Press, Forlani and Di Maio would be "natural masters of centrism ultra-flexible, integrated by opaque wonders of the keyboard democracy". Compared to the subtlety, let's say, of this imaginary couple of old and new Christian Democracy, one would want to downgrade to a smack the crafty representation of the "sweet revolution" boasted by Conte and translated by Makkox on the sheet in a hilarious cartoon. In it, the former prime minister is pictured in a telephone conversation with Grillo about the invitation to accompany him to the long meeting with the Chinese ambassador in Rome, on the eve of a G7 marked by the conviction of the new American president Joe Biden that it is necessary counteract Chinese expansionism.
In the cartoon, Conte – under whose governments Italy's relations with Beijing have gone far beyond the interests and expectations of our main ally, the United States – asks Grillo. “Listen, but do I notice more if I come and stay on the sidelines, or if I don't come at all? What do you say? Boh? … ". His choice, as we know, was then not to go, and Grillo to go alone, enough and advancing to represent the Movement entrusted to the cosmetic re-foundation of the former Prime Minister.
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-la-sfrenata-corsa-di-conte-e-di-maio-al-centro/ on Mon, 14 Jun 2021 06:20:56 +0000.