Mario Monti’s caress to Meloni and Giorgetti
While Repubblica sounds the death knell for the Meloni government, the Corriere della Sera with an editorial by former prime minister Mario Monti uses completely different tones… Damato's Graffi
Even with the horror in the eyes – I hope – of the Moroccan apocalypse, among the rubble of the earthquake and the desperate faces of the survivors, the director of La Repubblica himself, Maurizio Molinari, wanted to celebrate in Italy " the moment of weakness " of the government of Giorgia Meloni, who arrived "with the first real decline recorded in the polls " like the one published yesterday by the competitor Corriere della Sera . A decline that adds to or completes "the few economic resources to support growth, a constantly increasing number of migrants and the ideological resistance of the party's hard core" of the prime minister distracted by the usually rewarding but perhaps harmless international commitments.
Fortunately for Meloni and her government, a man – I believe – of greater competence and prestige than Maurizio Molinari, the economist and senator for life Mario Monti, former prime minister, usually sparing on recognition, still convinced a few days ago that an agreement between Rome and Paris will not be able to move Germany from its substantial unwillingness to loosen the European stability pact suspended for a short time due to Covid, has renewed its substantial or half trust – as you prefer – in the government grappling with "a difficult transition for the Italian economy". In particular, in an editorial in the Corriere della Sera he provided assistance to the "prime minister, already involved in politics at the age of twenty, raised in Garbatella, full of courage" and to the "minister of Economy, from Varese, graduated from Bocconi, a man pragmatic and prudent". “The possibility – he wrote – of transforming that difficult passage into a great opportunity is in their hands, in their complementary skills, in their understanding”.
Monti explained what this opportunity is by warning that "if they speak clearly and tell the truth", as they have shown they want to do by dispelling "the monetary and financial illusions as well as the populist and sovereignist illusions that they too have contributed to fueling" in past, "common sense will return to the minds of Italians and to parliamentary chambers: the most important – he said – of the possible or desirable reforms. Including – I believe – that of the so-called premiership on which hopes and terrible predictions are wasted, even "subversive" according to the mild constitutionalist Enzo Cheli.
Naturally betting that things will go the opposite of what Monti hopes is, among others, the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, who is increasingly determined to chase the grillino Giuseppe Conte on the populist front rather than to hold the reformists finally – in her opinion – in exited the Nazarene, the wrong place where they had decided to stay after his arrival at the top. She does not feel abandoned now, but liberated, as Stefano Rolli suggests in Secolo XIX .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-carezza-di-mario-monti-a-meloni-e-giorgetti/ on Sun, 10 Sep 2023 07:43:02 +0000.