Letta, Moro and the 5-star Martians
"Allow me to say – I really knew him and also frequented him a little, unlike both Letta and Conte, if only for reasons of personal history – that Moro would have exchanged the grillini for Martians: he who also knew how to scrutinize the future more than many others in his time ". The Scratches of Damato
Without wanting to bother William Shakespeare with his Hamlet and that method in the madness that induces to simulate what is not there and conceal what is, the meeting held between the new secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta and the one in pectore, or not I know where else in the Grillino movement, which is former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, has a curious dichotomy.
The content of the meeting was translated by Conte into the image of an open "construction site", in which the two parties or movements confront each other, dialogue and perhaps enter into demanding government agreements at every level, including local ones in this long eve of elections administrative, notoriously postponed to autumn. Da Letta has even been translated into a “fascinating adventure”, which has been defined as “surprising” on Repubblica by Stefano Folli, somehow in tune with Laura Pellegrini. In his cartoon signed, as usual, Ellekappa makes it clear in the same newspaper that he would have preferred to die before having to hear and see that the Democratic Party is "the privileged interlocutor of the 5Stelle", as Nicola Zingaretti, the predecessor of the 'current secretary, who knows why, at this point, he resigned for the "shame" caused by the poltronismo of the currents. To which it could be enough that he really began to prescribe and enforce a certain diet, without making so much noise and aggravating the image of the party with his protest.
However, the place that Letta chose to meet Conte, in front of the historic Roman Basilica of Sant'Andrea della Valle, among other things famous for having been imagined by Giacomo Puccini in the first act of his Tosca, is the most politically distant from the type of operation that the two have indicated with their statements. And this not for the beautiful Baroque church that dominates the square, but for the precise place that Letta – I presume – chose to meet Conte in another building in that square: the headquarters of his Arel. I say "his" because there, in the Research and Legislation Agency, the secretary of the Democratic Party has somehow grown intellectually and politically following the economist and several times minister Beniamino Andreatta. Whose intellectual rigor and political assonance with Aldo Moro frankly seem to me to be at a sidereal distance – I repeat – from the Grillino movement: both in the debut version and in those of a different and contradictory sign that emerged from the government alliances made earlier with the Lega by Matteo Salvini and then with Zingaretti's Pd, both in the one that Conte painstakingly elaborates, to say the least, handling codes, contracts and so on. And dividing himself between the profession or the forensic experience and the political vocation discovered by governing, albeit in its own way, in this so anomalous legislature.
Even Conte, always in his own way, has repeatedly made a profession of morotheism due to geographical affinities, being from Puglia, and cultural with the late Christian Democrat statesman so fiercely kidnapped and then murdered by the red brigades. But allow me to say – I really knew him and also frequented him a little, unlike both Letta and Conte, if only for reasons of age – that Moro would have exchanged the grillini for Martians: he who also knew how to scrutinize the future more than many others in his time.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/letta-moro-e-i-marziani-a-5-stelle/ on Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:30:09 +0000.