The 25th of April in La Russa
I think La Russa will find a way to participate in the April 25 party in his own way, as he recalled doing as Defense Minister. The Scratches of Damato
Of course, to read on the entire front page of the Press that quotation mark from the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa who announced six months in advance: "I am not celebrating this April 25", one instinctively wants to advise Giorgia Meloni, moreover, returning from a visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the altar of the Fatherland, to beware more of friends than enemies. And to repeat the homonymous and famous prayer to the Lord.
But one goes to read the interview, collected by Paolo Colonnello in the Milanese home of La Russa, complete with a description of the fascist relics partly inherited from his father, and discovers that the quotation mark is somewhat forced, to say the least. When asked – a court report would say – if he "will celebrate April 25", the accused replies: "It depends. Certainly I will not parade in the parades as they are held today. Because there is not a celebration of freedom and democracy but something completely different, the prerogative of a certain left ”. In fact, the representation of the Jewish groups participating in the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascism usually whistles, for example in Milan.
“I had no difficulty as Minister of Defense to bring a wreath of flowers to the monument of the partisans at the Maggiore cemetery in Milan. And it was not a duty, ”recalled the President of the Senate. As such, he also defended himself from a request for indictment on presences that he could spare himself, such as the recent ones in the headquarters of his party and Palazzo Chigi, at least inappropriate for the second position of the State, which is best suited "a step backwards ".
Also to this question – to put it judicially – the accused replied. And, repeating "the solemn promise" made after the election at the top of Palazzo Madama to "be president of all, striving to guarantee both the majority and the opposition", he said: "Only me have begun to look where I put my feet! I remember that Bertinotti, Fini and Casini were party leaders and were the Presidents of the Chamber. Or I remember the President of the Senate Forlani: other than La Russa ”.
That Forlani is of course a slip of the tongue, in place of Fanfani. Correctness perhaps would have wanted the interviewer to detect it with an interruption, which I refuse to believe avoided in order to lengthen the shadow of forgetfulness on the interviewee already at the age of 75, now considered to be of normal seniority, so to speak. Di Fanfani, however, La Russa does well to remember what he spared himself from explaining: that meeting of the leader of his party, the DC, convened in 1973 at Palazzo Giustiniani, and chaired by himself, to overturn the results of the local congresses held in previous weeks and direct the national congress, on its immediate eve, in the opposite direction: the removal of the fanfanian Arnaldo Forlani from the Christian Democratic secretariat and of Giulio Andreotti from Palazzo Chigi with his government. In which the liberals had taken the place of the socialists who had left the center-left majority two years earlier for the election of Giovanni Leone as President of the Republic, which was not agreed with them.
Not for wanting to prosecute newspapers and magazines but only to detect a fragility at least equal to the much mistreated digital information, more immediate and now also more widespread, it does not seem to me the case to further complicate an already difficult political situation on the part of journalists. his introducing tensions to say the least forced. I think that La Russa will find a way to participate in the April 25 party in his own way, as he recalled having done as Minister of Defense, knowing well how the Republic was born in Italy: on the ashes of a fascism too long tolerated by a monarchy for this reason overthrown in the institutional referendum of June 2, 1946. And knowing full well how much the anti-fascist spotlight is on the right-center government in its first steps.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-25-aprile-di-la-russa/ on Sun, 30 Oct 2022 06:06:57 +0000.