Massimo Fini rehabilitates Giulio Andreotti on the Fatto Quotidiano di Travaglio?
Almost 10 years after his death, Giulio Andreotti recognized as a statesman on the justicialist front
Massimo Fini, one of the most stinging journalist and writer, whose collaboration, albeit extremely uncomfortable, I had the privilege of enjoying in the now distant years of managing Il Giorno , is what the late Giovanni Malagodi used to say, who produced some in his free times from politics : good wines get better with age.
On the road to turning 80, Massimo happened to share a postal queue with Stefano Andreotti, the second son of the "divo Giulio" born exactly 104 years ago and died almost ten years ago, after having been Prime Minister seven times, I no longer remember how many times minister, once group leader of the DC in the Chamber, and another time almost candidate for the Quirinale , in 1992, never secretary of his party, it has never been clear whether by choice or lack of opportunity. And finally excellent accused of mafia association and murder, acquitted for both. Patience if even today the now retired accuser Gian Carlo Caselli maintains, every time someone gives him the reason for it by writing precisely the acquittals, that the one for the Mafia is worth little or nothing due to the prescription that he would have spared the senator for life – another charge collected by Andreotti- the conviction for facts, knowledge and anything else dating back to before 1981.
The casual sharing of that banal postal queue with his son, whom he didn't even know but whose name he discovered by hearing it pronounced by the clerk at the counter, happily revived the memory of his father in Massimo Fini's memory. In which he had come across a Roman hippodrome at a very young age causing him to drop his glasses and had then also had the opportunity to interview as a journalist, beginning to appreciate his acumen, kindness, punctuality, culture, irony and more. So much so that he wrote, at the end of an article published on 12 January on the unsuspected or surprising, as you prefer, Fatto Quotidiano directed by Marco Travaglio that Andreotti “in any other European country he would have been a great statesman. Here he was a strange ircocervo: half statesman and, perhaps, half criminal”. An enigma, Winston Churchill would have said.
The good Massimo could not have written better, and had the less good Marco published in his newspaper because of his obsession, among other things, with crippling the names and stories of people he doesn't like, thinking he's only being ironic.
However, there is something in Massimo Fini's article that Mattia Feltri, although pleased – for the rest – did not like, writing about it in his brilliant daily column on the front page of La Stampa . It is the relief expressed by Massimo at never having followed politics by attending the Chambers in the ranks, so to speak, of the parliamentary press. Where I and others have evidently wasted sixty years of our career path.
The space covered by us poor unfortunates, to say the least, has been defined by Mattia, who hangs around it without the lenses of indifference, "the most honest square kilometer in Italy", being the Parliament "populated by people with a sense of state and institutions and with disastrously low respect for the law and role, but much higher than in the rest of the country". As evidence of his beliefs, he cited the consoling surprises confided to him by some grillini who arrived at Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama with the conviction of having to restore who knows what sewers, starting with reducing parliamentary seats to speed up cleaning and so on.
Ah, the indifference, infantile or senile disease, as you prefer, of the moralism scattered among squares, schools, more or less cultural associations, newspaper offices and courts, in a mixture of hypocrisy and infamy. It is useless then to be surprised by electoral absenteeism, by newspapers that sell fewer and fewer copies, however full of anti-politics, and newsstands that close, so little by now there is a desire to be informed in Italy. The electronic instruments themselves are often compulsive, or obsessively, by kids, young and old more to play than to know or get to know.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/massimo-fini-riabilita-giulio-andreotti-sul-fatto-quotidiano-di-travaglio/ on Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:52:14 +0000.