Surprise: Il Foglio promotes Giorgia Meloni
The government of Giorgia Meloni "tried" in the Foglio and acquitted. Damato's Scratches
Mindful of the vote I don't believe fideistic but reasoned in favor of Enrico Letta's Democratic Party announced by Giuliano Ferrara before the September elections, without detracting from the well-known friendship and sympathy for Silvio Berlusconi, of whom he had been minister for relations with the Parliament; mindful, I said, of that electoral choice of Giuliano Ferrara, I took Giorgia Meloni's "trial to the hundred days" seriously, shot yesterday on the front page of the Foglio . Of which the founder has understandably and humanly remained the soul, even though he has long since left the direction to Claudio Cerasa.
The process, it is known, without being a jurist, presupposes an accusation from which a defendant must defend himself. And the prime minister was there as defendant, reading that headline and thinking – I repeat – of Giuliano's favorite opposition party, even though she knew that it would certainly have lost the elections after having broken with Giuseppe Conte's grillini, or after Giuseppe Conte's grillini had broken with the Democratic Party, and after the latter in turn had broken with Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi in order not to download that substantial telephone area code made up of the red-and-greens of Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli.
But that title – The process , I repeat – shouldn't be taken seriously because it was nothing more than a half-year exam conducted by fifteen politicians and real, emeritus or fake professors, including among the latter, without wanting to fail them respect, journalists habitually grappling with politics and surroundings. Here is the list in the same strictly alphabetical order respected by the Sheet collecting judgments and moods on the first three months and ten days of the first right-centre government in the history of Italy, moreover presided over by a woman: Carlo Calenda, Sabino Cassese, Alessandro Cattaneo, Giuseppe Conte, Luigi Di Maio, Oscar Giannino, Siegmund Ginzberg, Camillo Langone, Marco Lodoli, Mariarosa Mancuso, Andrea Minuz, Saverio Raimondo, Nicola Rossi, Alessandra Sardoni and Serena Sileoni.
THE "PROCESS" ON THE SHEET TO THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
As a chronicler of a certain experience, let's say so, I try to summarize their judgments and moods as much as possible, I repeat, apologizing in advance if I find any of them too synthetic, up to even turning their thinking upside down.
Carlo Calenda shouted his no, accusing Meloni of "having done nothing", despite having shown some appreciation here and there in the political news of recent weeks, or even willingness to lend her a hand from the opposition. Sabino Cassese seemed to lean towards yes with that expressed conviction that Meloni is "admired by those who know what it means to work hard and have a young daughter". Alessandro Cattaneo as leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber certainly could not deny the trust placed in the government there. Nor could he contradict his parliamentary no Giuseppe Conte, who reproached Meloni for "lack of coherence and courage".
Luigi Di Maio, by changing his letter, could only confirm the break with Conte, appreciating the government if only on the non-secondary side of foreign policy, of which the former grillino chief gained some experience at the Farnesina as minister. Instead, Oscar Giannino was substantially negative due to the majority being "a horse that swerves in opposite directions".
For Siegmund Ginzburg, on the contrary, "we can be satisfied" because "it is better to zigzag than to go deep". Camillo Langone would like Meloni to "celebrate the 1000, even 10,000 days", which would then be the classic "100 of these days" that friends wish in due circumstances. For Marco Lodoli, on the other hand, those days that have already passed are enough to say that Meloni "looked like a bonfire and is a candle already half melted".
Mariarosa Mancuso, changing her letter again, is quite curious to see how the Prime Minister will end up "with all the spanners in the works that the allies are throwing at her". Andrea Minuz, on the other hand, does not have to wait any longer to promote Meloni to an "export Garbatella". Saverio Raimondo, then, recognized her the merit, for a man of the left, of "circumvention of fascists", given where she is demonstrating that she is able and willing to bring the unwitting blacks among whom she would have grown up. A big yes, therefore, yours like that of Nicola Rossi, for whom Meloni's is "anything but a void". And "what he did is no small thing".
Finally, at letter s, Alessandra Sardoni saw in the prime minister, but perhaps even more so in some of her ministers, "a bit of narcissism and revenge" that would make her government deserve a no. It would be too early to express a judgment instead for Serena Sileoni, who therefore prefers to stay a little longer at the window and watch.
Overall, if I still know how to calculate, the yes to Meloni is 8, the no 5 and the votes of waiting, or abstention, 2. A result that perhaps in the problematic, to say the least, title of the friends of the Foglio on the "process" it should have been indicated, as in the anodyne title of "Review of a honeymoon".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-foglio-governo-meloni/ on Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:47:38 +0000.