Melons pampered by Zelensky and tormented by Berlusconi and Salvini
The very first steps of the Meloni government amidst announcements and commotion. The Scratches of Damato
Before even obtaining it from the Chamber, by tonight, and from the Senate tomorrow, Giorgia Meloni's government has obtained the trust of Ukraine, announced personally by President Volodymyr Zelensky in a long interview with Corriere della Sera .
"Giorgia? Volodymir, call me Giorgia ”She replied – said the Ukrainian president – after I had called her by name. That's exactly how it went, right away. It was direct and personal. I think we have built an excellent relationship in continuity with the period started by Draghi ”. With whom – said Zelensky – “the level of our bilateral relations had made a leap forward and now we will continue to improve it. I told her this and she replied that it was certainly also her will, that she does not intend to destroy anything that was built… I invited her to Kiev and she replied that she will come ”.
In another passage of the interview granted after a phone call received by the Italian Prime Minister, Zelensky spoke of the "common alliance" existing with Rome, clarifying and specifying: "An alliance in general in the European Union". “And now – he added as if to give an example – the new prime minister is fully involved in the discussion in Brussels to send us a package of new military aid. Everything seems positive to me ”.
Invited to speak also about Silvio Berlusconi, whom he recently accused of drinking too much vodka, sent to him by Putin for his last birthday, Zelensky has somewhat corrected his first reaction to the sensational sorties of the former Italian Prime Minister by perhaps accepting the explanations given in recent days by telephone to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister by the new Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani, Berlusconi's deputy to the presidency of Forza Italia. In particular, the Ukrainian president said he was "less frightened" now that he learned that Berlusconi "just repeated" Putin's story about the war in progress. But he also specified, somewhat aggravating the controversy on the political level, that what scares him less is the fact that "only 8 percent of Italians" vote for Berlusconi. “This – he said – is the comforting response of your electorate. This is enough for me… Anyway, he is almost 90 years old and I wish him to remain in good health ”.
At "almost 90 years old", four more than he actually turned last month, Berlusconi does not seem resigned to giving up a certain leadership and a certain impatience within the center-right he founded in 1994, and which has developed in a way perhaps different from his own predictions, or bets. In fact, a “proud” speech was announced for tomorrow in the Senate, intervening in the discussion on the trust on stage today in Montecitorio.
Berlusconi, on the other hand, was preceded by loyalists who publicly accused Giorgia Meloni of having sacrificed too much Forza Italia in the presidencies of the Chambers and in the appointments of ministers, for which it would be necessary to make amends at the level of deputy ministers and undersecretaries.
Perhaps even more insidious than this Berlusconian discontent, however, is the activism of the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini for Meloni. Who, determined to re-propose and move as a defender of national borders from illegal immigrants who land on the coasts every day, in his new role as minister of infrastructures immediately summoned the commander of the Coast Guard, in fact. That should instead go to the dependence of the minister "of the sea", as well as of the South, Nello Musumeci, of the Meloni party, a veteran of the experience of governor of Sicily interrupted by the disapproval of the forces and leaguers. But in addition to guarding the coasts, Salvini has mobilized his party with meetings of all kinds on economic issues that will prevail in the first decisions of the government, although the League's Giancarlo Giorgetti sits in the Ministry of Economy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-zelensky-intervista-corriere/ on Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:07:05 +0000.