Tajani and Salvini divided on Harris and Trump
The American elections seen through the binoculars of Italian politics between ultras frenzy and far-sighted silences. Damato 's Scratches
We are naturally all waiting to know, understand and so on tomorrow evening who and how will have won the race for the Casa Banca between the outgoing vice president Kamala Harris and the former president Donald Trump. Or will it have come closer to a victory that will certainly be controversial if it doesn't turn out to be Trump's: we'll see if it's controversial only in words or also in deeds, as when the tycoon missed it four years ago and incited his followers to attack Congress .
Even in Italy, few have resisted the temptation to take sides, seeing all the good on one side and all the bad on the other. As a result, the two opposing sides of the government and the opposition were divided internally.
In the center-right, the most visible, and even proud, Trump fan is the vice-president of the Council and Northern League leader Matteo Salvini. Harris's most visible supporter is the other vice-president of the Council and Force leader, as well as Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani. Which, if he still had any doubts, he had to let go of them a few days ago in the face of the preference expressed for Trump's antagonist by Marina Berlusconi. From which the secretary of Forza Italia has already collected indications on the field of so-called civil rights in Italy. Giorgia Meloni simply stood at the window, or at the windows of Palazzo Chigi, I won't say indifferent but almost at the outcome of the American match, knowing that she had the duty and power to speak with anyone who should arrive or return to the White House as president after four years of Joe Biden.
The Italian centre-right, however divided, is in short impervious to the vote from overseas. The oppositions, no, they are not because a part of them, made up of Giuseppe Conte and the radical left, intends to exploit a Trump victory to translate it into the further pursuit of a weakening of Italy's traditional Atlantic policy and a distancing from Europe from the United States. All of which can be immediately translated, barring sensational surprises from Trump, in a closure of the Ukrainian game in favor of Putin's Russia, after two and a half years of a war conceived in the Kremlin as a special police operation to be concluded in about fifteen days.
For Conte, now also abandoned by Beppe Grillo and two thirds of his electorate, a Trump victory would translate into a tonic. The personal ambitions or illusions of the former prime minister are all too well known, and he consoles himself and at the same time energizes himself by leafing through the photo album of the meetings with the American president already then when he was at Palazzo Chigi, casually passing from a majority to other, plural like the name Giuseppi distorted by the head of the White House. “Call them, if you want, emotions”, sang Lucio Battisti.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tajani-salvini-elezioni-usa-2024/ on Mon, 04 Nov 2024 06:55:05 +0000.