Salvini and Meloni snub the unitary center-right party launched by Berlusconi
As discussed in the center-right on the unitary party proposed by Silvio Berlusconi
As a further demonstration of how a cartoon can be more effective than any brilliant, wise and informed article or comment to represent a problem or a situation, one cannot fail to mention that of Stefano Rolli today on the XIX Century. Which mercilessly proposes to the readers Silvio Berlusconi leaning on the step not of a car, as in 2007 to launch the unification between Forza Italia and the National Alliance, but of a wheelchair, or wheelchair, to propose this time the unification of Forza Italy, Lega and Fratelli d'Italia.
It is a proposal, formulated by him speaking in connection with the European parliamentarians of his party, even more pushed than the one formally advanced recently by Matteo Salvini, and which he received with interest amid the protests and doubts of many forcas, starting with Minister Mara Carfagna, fearful of an annexation by the Lega, electorally too solid than Forza Italia.
Even the idea of a single party of the center-right, although launched personally by Berlusconi, surprised, displaced and so on, many in Forza Italia, but also outside. Salvini reacted by proposing the federation as more realistic. Giorgia Meloni was decidedly opposed, sailing with the wind behind her thanks to the polls that made her overtake the League, crediting a center-right with her own personal traction, objectively has no interest in containing her formation in another party.
Meloni is definitely not in the conditions of 2007 by Gianfranco Fini. Which with a hot blow dismissed as a "comic" the prospect of a party that would unify Forza Italia and its National Alliance. But then he converted there because, in a gradual decline in votes alone, he felt the opportunity, or the advantage, of not counting himself, reserving the right to conduct in the new party – the PDL – an action of containment and then of contrast with regard to a Berlusconi in the meantime returned to Palazzo Chigi. And Fini was there to overthrow him with a motion of no confidence prepared in his office, then, as Speaker of the Chamber. It was 2010.
Berlusconi, of course, never fails to surprise. But this time maybe he really threw his heart too much, or something implied in Stefano Rolli's cartoon, that is, a crutch, over the obstacle.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/salvini-e-meloni-snobbano-il-partito-unitario-del-centrodestra-lanciato-da-berlusconi/ on Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:20:55 +0000.