Meloni’s moves and anxieties between Salvini, Conte and Bonelli
Meloni star also in the House? Damato's Scratches
Not even in the Chamber, therefore, the Northern League vice president of the Council Matteo Salvini, as the day before in the Senate, unlike his fellow force activist Antonio Tajani, managed to find the time, or the desire, to support Giorgia Meloni at the government benches in the discussion of investiture, so to speak, for the mission to the European Council today and tomorrow in Brussels.
The presence, in turn, of a Northern League minister organized at the last moment by the Carroccio group was not enough to appease suspicions, controversies, accusations in politics and the media. "The League leaves Meloni alone in the courtroom and raises the tension in the government", headlined Domani on the entire front page, the newspaper of the engineer Carlo De Benedetti in its latest version of "radicalism", necessary to reinvigorate a Democratic Party which at the the day after the electoral defeat of 25 September it seemed to him already lost, only to be dissolved and liquidated, due to the conditions to which his friend Enrico Letta had reduced him. Who hadn't wanted to hear her telephone advice not to leave the empty door on the left to Meloni's right by breaking with the grillini.
Just the grillini, for their part, yesterday in the Chamber did not know how to take advantage of the "tension", real or presumed, in the government to take the stage of the opposition, also given the renunciation of the new secretary of the Democratic Party to intervene in the discussion. Despite the emphasis with which the usual Fatto Quotidiano fired on the "brazen face" personally shouted by Giuseppe Conte at Meloni, the former prime minister ended up disastrously, in the courtroom and on social media, for yet another oratory gaffe of his political career. In particular, he dipped the biscuit of the right-centre government into the slime of fascism in the aftermath not of the Matteotti crime but of the “Andreotti crime”. Which rhymes with the martyr of Italian socialism.
Today the good Massimo Gramellini asks himself on the first page of the Corriere della Sera , offering his daily coffee to readers, if "a slip of the tongue is enough to hang a man, a politician, a statesman". Yes, that may be enough by now, I think, considering the frequency – later documented by Gramellini himself – with which even as head of government the current president of the 5 Star Movement crippled reality, even speaking once of the head of state to remember his brother who was killed from the mafia.
Again in yesterday's debate in Montecitorio, the green Angelo Bonelli had no better luck with the stones taken from the dry bed of the Adige and flaunted in the classroom to denounce the drought crisis. Meloni effectively asked him if he hadn't mistaken her for Moses, who was even able to dry up the sea. The whole hall rightly laughed, with Meloni, at the opposition deputy. Perhaps they also laughed about it at the Quirinale, where Meloni then went with quite a few ministers in view of the mission to Brussels.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mosse-e-ansie-di-meloni-fra-salvini-conte-e-bonelli/ on Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:55:13 +0000.