Surprise: Travaglio and Ferrara get along on Conte …
Comments and reactions to the pact between the Democratic Party and Action / + Europe. The Scratches of Damato
The electoral agreement eventually reached between Enrico Letta and Carlo Calenda thanks – behind the scenes – to the solicitations and warnings of Emma Bonino, underestimated at first by both, was immediately branded as "piled up" by Giuseppe Conte . Even as prime minister he had the ease of governing for a good half of the legislature with two opposing majorities, without and with the Democratic Party. And he was ready, before he shot himself in the foot by de facto discouraging Mario Draghi and provoking early elections, to make him the agreement with or the Nazarene for what was called "wide field". In which even the not yet president of the 5 Star Movement but still prime minister had been recklessly promoted by Enrico Letta's predecessor, Nicola Zingaretti, as a "point of reference for progressives".
The heaps, you know, are always and only those of others. Their intuitions, operations and whatever else are happy, indeed very happy, if crowned by surprising successes, as happened in 1994 to Silvio Berlusconi, winning the first elections of the so-called second Republic at the head of a center-right coalition including the openly incompatible Umberto Bossi and Gianfranco Fini. The other incompatible ones, enlisted by Achille Occhetto in the famous and "playful war machine" were not as lucky, so the secretary of the former PCI lost the elections and the office.
This time, too, the judgment on the transaction agreed between Enrico Letta and Carlo Calenda will depend on the election results. The first to wish her failure was of course the author of the detective story "Conticidio", Marco Travaglio, who in the Fatto Quotidiano encouraged Giorgia Meloni to extend the holidays, in her metaphorical boots, until September 24, not needing to not even an electoral campaign to win in the polls with the center-right and arrive at Palazzo Chigi as the first woman ever in the history of Italy to lead a government.
An avowed lover of paradoxes, who happily prefers to the labors of coherence, he practically found himself in agreement with Travaglio, his opposite in journalism: Giuliano Ferrara. Who on the sheet patiently directed by Claudio Cerasa since the founder decided to tire less wrote that "the real agreement that could favor the aspiration to a Draghi government or similar after the elections would be" – that is, it would have been, at this point – "the one with the lawyer Bisconte and his surviving crickets, who are on the side of 10 percent and would be decisive in favoring the electoral fate of a competitive coalition" with the center-right. And here the good Ferrara cited as a witness the old and generous "love of ours" of Il Foglio , which is Silvio Berlusconi. Which from "candid" and "living paradox" that is, "he said openly and literally in public: we will win because the left will not agree with the crickets". "True voice from the escaped sen", said the former minister of the Knight, firm however, despite the awareness of losing, in the electoral choice already announced in favor of the Democratic Party. In any case, in a playful vision of politics such as Ferrara's favorite, the important thing is to participate, not to win.
"There are more interesting perspectives in life" than victory, the founder of the sheet philosophically confirmed, shouting in his own way "a la guerre come à la guerre". His – I imagine – is also the title, strictly in red, of the article: “To be a Draghiani in earnest”. His so-called summary, of course, which ends like this: "Politics is not done with egomaniacalism and moralistic complaints."
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/sorpresa-travaglio-e-ferrara-vanno-daccordo-su-conte/ on Wed, 03 Aug 2022 07:07:29 +0000.