Not just Justice. Tajani’s program for Forza Italia

16 July 202310 months ago babelfish

Theses and programs by Antonio Tajani, new national secretary of Forza Italia. Paola Sacchi's note

Stefania Craxi evokes Midas, whose anniversary occurs in these days of July. The Senator of Forza Italia, president of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission, sees this as a good omen against "the baleful forecasts" that were then made for the PSI and now for FI, without Silvio Berlusconi. Antonio Tajani starts well with his "Midas", held yesterday in another Roman hotel, the Parco dei Principi. Much more tough, constant, determined and even humble than how he is portrayed by his detractors on the left and in the centre-left (Matteo Renzi also accused him of "shyness" on guarantees, but denied by the facts, as Francesco Damato wrote yesterday on Startmag ) , the new blue national secretary (because "Forza Italia has only one president", whose name as founding president was put in the statute) clearly outlines the guidelines. Precisely starting from the "fundamental principle for us of guaranteeism". Which does not mean being "weak with crime", but the exact opposite. And precisely for this reason, "although it is not part of the government program", the blue secretary then confirms with journalists his yes also to the observations of minister Carlo Nordio on the remodulation of the external competition for mafia association.

But Tajani, who is also deputy prime minister and foreign minister, puts the separation of careers, which is in the government program, first. And one of Berlusconi's warhorses, "those dreams for which we must survive, fight together, because we have a duty to make them come true, in homage to him". As a "loyal and sincere" ally, as he responds to the wishes of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who defines him as an "authoritative person, serious and important politician", the new blue leader up to the congress – which he intends to hold if the presidential committee, since yesterday called the national secretariat, he will agree, before the 2024 European Championships – he announces from the stage: "We will bring liberal principles to all tables". Because "there is a liberal revolution still to be accomplished".

This applies to justice and to the economy, with the reduction of taxes, the reform of the bureaucracy. His election, unanimously, by acclamation, to the maximum blue summit is blessed by the president of the EPP, Manfred Weber, who came to Rome specifically, always calling him "Antonio" in his speech, for him the best leader that FI can have after Berlusconi . As for Europeanism, together with Atlanticism, guarantorism, liberalism and the Christian roots, or rather the blue DNA, Tajani observes however that this does not mean saying that "everything is always fine in Europe, madam the Marquise".

The rise in interest rates by the ECB, he confirms, is not going well at all, as he expresses, earning one of the most intense applauses, a sharp no "to the whims of Mr. Timmermans (Vice-President of the EU Commission, of the PSE, ed .) in favor of an ecological policy based on ideologies and fundamentalisms, which can cost thousands and thousands of jobs". Tajani relaunches the party that "must be the centre, allied with the right" of the coalition: "Allied and different, our identity will be able to strengthen the action of the government". FI is called to be "a real home for the moderates", where "the disappointed, former DC and former socialists, can find a home from a Democratic Party increasingly moved to the left by old-socialist policies".

Words that make the third (former?) pole nervous, with Carlo Calenda, who immediately reacts on Twitter. Words that one can imagine don't exactly sound like music for Renzi either. As for his party, which elected him unanimously, Tajani, who announces to the audience the letter of support for FI from Berlusconi's sons, does not spare what also sounds like some indirect barbs at those who in recent days have already been talking about any other congressional candidates. “Principles and contents are important, not the third-grade gossip I read, plumes and bogus offices don't count, the votes you get do count,” he underlines. He closes, moved, saying "I am a militant, I have always believed in it and I believe in it" and thanks his family for always being close to him.

With the reporters then, after a real bath of selfies with national and local leaders, he does not exclude, if necessary, also from running for the European elections to be the driving force for FI in its first real electoral testing ground. He says he is absolutely calm if there are other challengers at the congress. Many years ago he lost as candidate for mayor of Rome with about 49 percent, giving a hard time to Walter Veltroni, then a real war machine. Then, he went to Europe and piece by piece he built a first-rate career, commissioner, vice president of the EU Commission, president of the European Parliament. Will the first spokesman for Prime Minister Berlusconi, co-founder of FI, the ex-boyfriend of Liceo Tasso, whose photo of them together Maurizio Gasparri, big blue and vice president of the Senate, posted on Twitter , will be just a pro-tempore secretary? Or will his “Midas” take him further? How did it happen to the man, obviously with all the differences between eras and characters, who according to the detractors of the time would have danced only one summer?

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/non-solo-giustizia-il-programma-di-tajani-per-forza-italia/ on Sun, 16 Jul 2023 06:26:21 +0000.