Not just Lega. I’ll tell you about wars and armed truces in politics
The Lega case and beyond. The war spiral of political language, between battles and armed truces. The Scratches of Damato
Italian politics has entered a war spiral, at least in language. At the "battle of the Quirinale" – announced the day before yesterday by Corriere della Sera, almost suddenly discovering that under the ashes of the "moratorium" theorized by Enrico Letta and shared by others out of respect for the outgoing president of the Republic, the fire of a clash is smoldering very hard – the "armed truce" announced by the Republic, but also by other newspapers, was added today to represent the situation in the League. Whose Federal Council urgently convened in Rome by Matteo Salvini for yet another controversial interview released by his friend, vice president of the party, or something like that, and minister Giancarlo Giorgetti ended leaving the internal tension unchanged. That it will not be resolved – we can bet – not even in the programmatic assembly announced for December 11, in view of Christmas and New Year, when we usually exchange greetings and gifts, or firecrackers, not bullets.
To remain in military language, it can be said that Salvini met the Federal Council to promote himself from "captain", as he let himself be called for a long time in the League, to general. Who – he also explained to Giorgetti receiving his approval – "listens to everyone but he decides", starting with the international position of the party challenged by the minister, worried about the isolation to which the general, in fact, puts his army in Europe by hiring the sovereignists as privileged interlocutors, and across the Atlantic cheering on the opponents of American President Joe Biden, not to mention South America. Where the privileged one is Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose return Salvini gratefully remembers the return to Italian prisons of the terrorist Cesare Baptist.
If the League is crying in the composite majority of the government, the other parties certainly do not laugh. In the Democratic Party, a group assembly has just been held in the Senate where Enrico Letta seemed more the accused than the secretary for the virtually failed challenge to Matteo Renzi and the center-right in the secret ballot vote on the presumably urgent law against homotransphobia.
Under the five stars grilline, also in the Senate, Giuseppe Conte had just to convince the loyal group leader Ettore Licheri to renounce the confirmation having failed the first attempt in the clash with Mariolina Castellone, supported by the former head of the MoVimento and now foreign minister Luigi Di But I. In the Chamber, the group is even less controlled by Conte, whose credentials therefore, even in the all-parliamentary game of the Quirinale, are what they are, that is, scarce.
Not even the now small Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi enjoys a calm situation, although everyone still lets the president say, like Salvini in the League, who listens to everyone but in the end only he decides.
Even the good Draghi in this situation had to slow down by having his trusted undersecretary Roberto Garofali explain to the senior bureaucrats of the various ministries, according to the previews of the sheet, that the government is forcibly entering "a new phase": I do not say "beached ”- as the manifesto on its front page depicts it mercilessly, playing with the question of state concessions to bathing establishments contested by the European Union because they are free of competition – but almost on the sands of the race to the Quirinale, in which Draghi is now involved.
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-lega-vi-racconto-guerre-e-tregue-armate-in-politica/ on Sat, 06 Nov 2021 07:00:40 +0000.