It’s Christmas but in politics it seems like Carnival
Facts, surprises and pirouettes in politics. Damato's Scratches
Yes I know. We are only on the eve of Christmas and not Carnival, which comes later. But it is also calendar time in reverse, General Roberto Vannacci would perhaps write in these last days of leave that he took before taking up command of the land forces. Or whatever the hell the position assigned to him by the Ministry of Defense is called while still keeping him under disciplinary investigation for that book of the same name published without permission.
It is still time not for masks but for trees, however mangy like the Christmas one attributed by Stefano Rolli in the Press to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni thinking of the "maneuver" just approved by the Senate, with the usual vote of confidence. It passed to the Chamber for the end-of-year duster amid the controversy over the rejection of the ESM. Yet it is a mask, perhaps Ambrosian, that at first seemed applicable to the face of the still inconsolable Marta Fascina, on the front page of Corriere della Sera , who went with Silvio Berlusconi's agenda to the head of the Milan Prosecutor's Office to defend his generous will. That an overly witty naive person could have thought compromised in the Senate chamber by Matteo Renzi accusing Forza Italia of having betrayed the founder's Europeanism with the denied yes to the ratification of the ESM treaty. And obtaining from the group leader Maurizio Gasparri, former vice president of the assembly, an insult for which he then apologized in vain, given that the former prime minister has not yet released the reservation of a complaint, although symbolically archived by the president Ignazio La Russa with general Merry Christmas wishes.
But Berlusconi's agenda brought by Fascina to the judiciary has nothing to do with the political and pro-European legacy of her late and almost husband compromised – I repeat – according to Renzi by his successor Antonio Tajani and friends. The agenda was disturbed in defense of Berlusconi's more material legacy, including that hundred million euros intended for Fascina itself. Among its pages there would be the necessary or sufficient elements to "unmask – Luigi Ferrarella said in his scoop – a false heir, now under investigation for extortion". In short, politics, for once, has nothing to do either directly or indirectly with the judicial news in some way referable to the late prime minister.
The political news remains what it is in this slightly too messy tail end of 2023, in which the aforementioned ESM was rejected between the enthusiasm of the Northern League vice president of the Council Matteo Salvini and the regret of his party colleague, still a friend and minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, the Northern League, Meloni's Italian brothers and Giuseppe Conte's Five Star Movement voted in the same way. Who however – forgetting the signature made by his second government to that treaty – speaks foul of his "snack companions" in this phantasmagoric or – I repeat – carnival-like end of the year.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/e-natale-ma-in-politica-sembra-carnevale/ on Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:02:34 +0000.