Meloni, Berlusconi and the retaliation
The controversy between Berlusconi and Meloni as seen by Francesco Damato
Even more than that handwritten sheet by Silvio Berlusconi with heavy judgments, to say the least, on Giorgia Meloni, although defined a few days earlier in an interview with the Family Journal "determined" and "lucid" enough to lead the government, series of photos taken on the morning of 13 October on the position of the Knight in the Senate. Where the former Prime Minister submits that sheet to the sight of Licia Ronzulli distracted at that moment by a conversation with the counter neighbor. But then he resumed reading Berlusconi's note, following his indicator finger of the various passages in which the candidate at Palazzo Chigi is defined as arrogant, overbearing and gradually insulting.
The more you look at those images, taken by a Repubblica photographer, I imagine how proud of his day's work in the stands overlooking the hall of Palazzo Madama on the first day of the new legislature, the more frankly it is difficult to share the accusation of theft launched by Libero in defense of the Knight. Which cannot be mistaken, with the experience he has in the field of communications, for a naïve person unable to evaluate his and his documents' exposure at a photographic location. Other than “stolen”, those images seem to be exhibited.
I also find it odd, to say the least, that the President of the Senate himself, Ignazio La Russa , wanted to speak to journalists about this affair. Which, instead of arranging perhaps due verifications on the regularity of those shots, let's call them that, practically challenged Berlusconi to deny the authenticity of that document so unfriendly towards the leader of the Italian right. Which, for its part, has claimed the right to at least be recognized as "not blackmail" by its censor.
It had been understood for some time, during the election campaign, that Berlusconi would have had some problems in considering himself at ease in a center-right led so clearly by "Mrs. Meloni", as he called her. But frankly one could not imagine that intolerance, to say the least, could have reached the level reached in recent days. And who has just made Massimo Gramellini write by Silvio Berlusconi on the front page of Corriere della Sera : “Of a man unwilling to obey him he would have said that he was ungrateful, frustrated, failed: what he said about Fini, after all. But if a woman dares to contradict him, it means that she is opinionated and arrogant. In reality Meloni is his Nemesis: the Greek goddess of retaliation, who arrived especially for him from the Olympus of Garbatella ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-berlusconi-e-il-contrappasso/ on Sat, 15 Oct 2022 07:44:04 +0000.