Political miracles between pumps and courts
What happened in Rome and Palermo on petrol stations and courts. Damato's Scratches
Political miracles in Rome, between Palazzo Chigi and its surroundings, and in Palermo, in the Ucciardone bunker hall. Where the trial of the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini takes place for kidnapping, contested by the judiciary, with the consent of Parliament in the last legislature, for having detained 147 migrants in August 2019 as Minister of the Interior on the Spanish ship Open Arms , hindering them the landing in Lampedusa.
In Rome, Giorgia Meloni managed to calm down the petrol station attendants in revolt against "the mud" – they shouted announcing a two-day strike – which the Prime Minister allegedly overthrew on them, attributing to speculative manoeuvres, and mobilizing the Guardia di Finanza, the 'increase in fuel prices caused instead by the restoration of excise duties, ie taxes, reduced by the previous government. The petrol station strike of 25 and 26 January was frozen after an initial meeting between the parties and will predictably be canceled after the next one.
In Palermo, on the other hand, the former allies of the grey-green era Giuseppe Conte and Luigi Di Maio have landed to testify against Salvini, who risks 15 years in prison: the first by suspending for a few hours his now habitual or prevalent hostilities against the Democratic Party in the run-up to left to concentrate them against the Northern League leader; the second by interrupting the preparations for the assumption, as a former minister, former parliamentarian, former pentastellato, of the position proposed to him in Brussels as European envoy in the Persian Gulf.
Both political witnesses, while ignoring each other in their new role as opponents for the split that took place last summer, practically brought fire or water – we will see later in the trial – to the prosecution, claiming that Salvini did it all alone in the summer of 2019, without the consent of the government. In particular, he delayed the disembarkation of migrants from the Spanish rescue ship for essentially electoral purposes, in the context of a crisis he himself conceived and initiated with the aim of going to the polls and getting plenty of votes. But the operation, as we know, was thwarted by the Democratic Party of Nicola Zingaretti and again of Matteo Renzi by replacing the Northern League in the second Conte government. And then by voting against Salvini to send him to trial for kidnapping, I repeat, while some magistrates exchanged messages to doubt the crime alleged against the now former Minister of the Interior but at the same time agree on the judicial, as well as political, opportunity to keep the Northern League leader at gunpoint
The Democratic Party, once it helped to put Salvini on trial, but then broke the political alliance with the grillini, despite many working at the Nazarene to take it back at the right moment, came out yesterday in a television living room wishing the minister to be acquitted , given the all-political nature of the story of the migrants, but still supporting the opportunity of the trial. We are perhaps at the third political miracle.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/i-miracoli-politici-fra-pompe-e-tribunali/ on Sat, 14 Jan 2023 07:41:05 +0000.