Magdalene of Berlusconi
The many faces, real or imaginary, of Berlusconi's reconciliation with Meloni. The Scratches of Damato
Everyone naturally saw what he wanted, or desired, in the reconciliation meeting between Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgio Meloni in the premises in via della Scrofa, Rome, where Giorgio Almirante and Gianfranco Fini worked in their time. And the two – "brother and sister", as the manifesto represented them – left full freedom of interpretation, reading and so on, meeting completely alone, without appendages, witnesses, collaborators, courtiers: call them whatever you want. This, frankly, does not seem like a trivial circumstance to me. Indeed, it seems to me – due to the previous habits of both and their followers – the most significant novelty: more than the same place of the meeting, which allowed one who must have known him well as Flavia Perina, having been the director of the Century 'Italia on the ground floor of the same building, to represent it today, as a correspondent of the Press , as “La Canossa del Caimano ”. That is, of Berlusconi.
A Magdalene – allow me also this – where Stefano Rolli in the vignette of Secolo XIX imagined the Caiman, in fact, forced by Meloni to take back on a blackboard all the judgments against her listed on that sheet taken up by the photographers on the desk of the Knight in the Senate . Where, always reading the press today, Berlusconi would have told Meloni that he had only reported the opinions collected among the forced senators about her, even if – in truth – he had just met her in a Montecitorio office, leaving it somewhat disappointed with the attention paid to his requests, concerns, observations and so on about the formation of the new government. But it is now a thing of the past, like that made by that naughty Gianfranco Miccichè until the last moment, dreaming no more of an external support from Forza Italia to the government.
Now, if the truce, rather than peace, reached or agreed between Berlusconi and Meloni in what Il Foglio has called "the passing of the baton", it will be "armed" as in the title of the Republic or not, "awaiting the next clash ”according to Domani , the newspaper of Carlo De Benedetti, can only be said by the facts. Just wait. I do not think, however, even before the now close assignment of the office of Prime Minister to Meloni by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. I think he was the first to breathe a sigh of relief by learning that, among the things agreed between the two in via della Scrofa, there is the common participation of the entire center-right in the consultations at the Quirinale. Where separate meetings should perhaps have forced the head of state to deepen, let's say, the real willingness of the Knight to support the formation of the first female-led government in the history of Italy.
In the variety of opinions, assessments and the like of the meeting that unlocked a situation that reached the brink of a paradoxical precipice, despite an electoral victory of the size of that obtained by the center-right in the elections of 25 September, the Piero Sansonetti's reformist extending the shadow of a "blackmail". That is, attributing the alleged surrender of Berlusconi to the "threats of Meloni". That, to tell the truth, she had rather felt threatened by the Knight, reacting to the criticisms contained on that convict sheet photographed in the Senate for her non-blackmail.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-canossa-di-berlusconi/ on Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:26:36 +0000.