Meloni slips on the Draghi peel
Meloni's words on Draghi seen by Damato
Far from being an "accident", as Il Giornale generously downgraded it, referring to the "attack on Draghi" contested by Repubblica against Giorgia Meloni for the speech in which yesterday in the Chamber, in view of her participation in the European Council, she practically boasted of having brought or still be able to bring home, in terms of concessions or just image, much more than his predecessor had done, filmed on a train with French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz traveling to Ukraine which had just been attacked by Russia of Putin. Or received every now and then by Macron at the Elysée, where the not so hidden hope is cultivated of bringing the former Italian prime minister to the presidency of the Union's Executive Commission next year, in place of the German Ursula von der Layen, or of the Council European, in place of the Belgian Charles Michel.
THE DERAILMENT OF MELONS ON DRAGONS
That of Meloni, wanting to stick to the now historical image of the train that she evoked with Draghi, Macron and Sholz on a mission to rescue his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky, was a disastrous political derailment: one of those that can mark the life of a government or in the career of a prime minister, the separation between before and after.
The official, unofficial or confidential clarifications following the speech in the Chamber certainly did not help to remove or straighten the sheets of metal to divert the controversy felt by everyone towards Draghi towards Elly Schlein's Democratic Party, so different from Enrico Letta's in foreign policy , although Giuseppe Conte accuses him of still wearing "the helmet". And Schlein herself can reply and defend herself by recalling that "tiredness" for the war in Ukraine that Meloni let slip in the famous interview taken from her by two Russian comedians disguised as African diplomats, or something similar.
WHAT DE BENEDETTI SAID
I frankly don't know if and how long it will take Meloni to forget her derailment, I repeat. Nor can the prime minister console herself – I fear – with the surprising preference declared to her today in the Foglio by the old, indomitable, "radicalized" Carlo De Benedetti. Who, interviewed by Salvatore Merlo on the decline of his newspapers, also ended up talking about the right six months after the death of Silvio Berlusconi.
“This right – said the former editor of Repubblica , now of Domani – doesn't seem very normal to me. And I don't like Meloni at all." That is, he still doesn't like her, after calling her "demented" – if I remember correctly – amidst the protests of a daughter-in-law.
“And yet – says the interviewer – at a certain point we discover that there is someone the Engineer likes even less”. And who? “If painfully forced to choose between Meloni and Conte, I would choose Meloni,” said Carlo De Benedetti, paraphrasing himself when he said on television that he would have preferred the still alive “adversary” Berlusconi over Beppe Grillo and subordinates, or guaranteed ones.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-draghi/ on Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:12:04 +0000.