The bogus government crisis told by the newspapers
What happens between Meloni, Salvini and Tajani? It will inevitably be collaboration-competition. Here because. Paola Sacchi's note
Who knows how many times between now and next June's Europeans it will be almost a government crisis, but a paper one, according to the narratives of the main newspapers. Beyond the distinctions also strong on the extra profits of the banks, which however, as the leader of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, deputy premier and foreign minister, stated yesterday evening in Versiliana, will not question the stability of Giorgia Meloni's executive, it is physiological that the three majority parties will have to accentuate their identity in view of the elections of June 2024. And this while maintaining a balance with government unity. We will go to the Europeans with the proportional system, each on his own.
And this is not a discovery of today. Have you ever seen a political force gear up to give votes to another, even if it has an iron alliance with it in the national government? The point is that, beyond the considerable problems that the Meloni executive is called to face, from the economy to immigration, the electoral campaign has in fact already begun. It is now up to the centre-right or right-centre majority parties to maintain that difficult balance between the electoral race, which will be a test of internal power relations , and the necessary unity of government.
It will inevitably be collaboration-competition, the term Bettino Craxi coined for the alliance between Psi-DC and minor secularists for his government. Craxi has been evoked in the media narrative these days and used inappropriately out of historical context either to cite in a negative sense the so-called "decision-making turn" of Prime Minister Meloni (with the solitary choice) on the banks, or to come to Matteo's rescue Renzi, even compared again to the socialist statesman. The IV leader and former premier is in trouble for the Europeans, given the serious crisis of the political couple with Carlo Calenda who is swerving to the left.
It is evident that Renzi, despite his official denials, has FI's approval in his sights, in his first major electoral test without Silvio Berlusconi. However, Tajani has already closed ranks and barred the way: "We need soldiers, not those who feel like generals", the FI secretary reiterated to Il Corriere della sera the day before yesterday. The goal of the Azzurri is to broaden the consensus to those disappointed by a crumbling third pole and a Democratic Party, such as that of Elly Schlein, increasingly radicalized on the left. Tajani yesterday evening clearly reiterated his no to alliances in Europe with Marine Le Pen and the German Afd, of which he criticized trenchantly ("it disgusts me") statements referring to a representative on the disabled. However, the Northern League senator Claudio Borghi strongly argued on social media that they were attributed, with a strain, to the German right-wing politician, "in order to attack Matteo Salvini who had the Ministry of Disability set up". And who in Europe is in the Identity and Democracy group with Afd and Marine Le Pen. Salvini supports, unlike Tajani, the alliance also with Le Pen and Afd to put socialists and Emmanuel Macron in the minority and affirm a new center-right majority also in the EU with the EPP. In a note, the League indirectly replies to Tajani, commenting on the agreement in Spain between the Psoe and the Independentists which led to the election of a socialist exponent at the head of the Congress: "This is what happens in Europe when vetoes are cast and there is division"
Be that as it may, Tajani (also vice president of the EPP), who has also lambasted Europe on immigration, has always stressed that his no to the French and German right because they are "anti-European" does not concern the leader of the League at all, also deputy prime minister and holder of the Mit. In turn, Salvini always reiterates that the government will last five years. Moreover, it is very difficult for the alternative to be made up of united oppositions, with the exception of Renzi who is "dancing" alone, from the battle over the minimum wage and divided over everything else, starting with foreign policy. The almost government crises will predictably be a paper catchphrase between now and June. But perhaps the center-right will also have to find a sort of decalogue that acts as a unitary framework for collaboration (in the government) and competition (in the European elections), the difficult challenge that awaits it.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/crisi-governo-meloni-tajani-salvini/ on Thu, 17 Aug 2023 05:41:55 +0000.