The France-Italy clash helps Tajani succeed Berlusconi
The internal effects of the government majority and Forza Italia of the latest French rudeness against Italy. Damato's Scratches
I don't know if in the "great frost in the Alps", as Avvenire defined it, or in the new chapter of the long novel of the "cousins knives", evoked by the manifesto , Macron will want, will know, will be able to seize the opportunity to finally get rid of a Minister of the Interior who has already created too many problems for him with the demonstrated inability to manage the French squares. Where, to say the least, violent demonstrations against the government's modest intervention on the retirement age have spread.
This time Gérarld Darmanin – this is the name of this minister – has tried to pour on the Italian government of Giorgia Meloni the anger aroused in France by Marine Le Pen's right-wing opposition on the immigration front, which is also hot there. And with an attack defined by the Republic as "the slap of Paris" he obtained the clamorous protest of the Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. Who canceled at the last minute a routine meeting that he should have had last night in Paris with his French counterpart.
The latter, realizing how big her colleague had done it, did not go as far as apologizing in public but significantly renewed the invitation to Tajani to fly to Paris as soon as possible to mend the tear in the "essential" relationships between the two countries. The possibility of this new meeting can only be determined by the French president in the times and ways he deems appropriate, perhaps in agreement with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. With whom he notoriously became a friend in his by now long experience at the Elysée.
I understand that, in addition to Meloni, who ended up sympathetically in a cartoon by Stefano Rolli on the 19th century hanging on a wall of the Parisian museum of the Louvre as "l'Iraconda", instead of Leonardo da Vinci's "Gioconda", the Foreign Minister consulted by telephone with Silvio Berlusconi who is still being held in hospital due to his improved health conditions. And he received his full consent, indeed encouragement. And so my dear friend Tajani, promoter of the Forza Italia electoral demonstration scheduled for today and tomorrow in Milan, destined to end with a remote message from Berlusconi himself, has laid another brick, so to speak, in the patient construction of the succession to party leader and founder marching to 30th birthday.
By now the foreign minister, vice president of the Council, vice president of the European People's Party, vice president of Forza Italia itself and former president of the European Parliament, has no serious rivals or competitors on the road to succeeding Berlusconi. Certainly, the group leader for the force and declining in the Senate Licia Ronzulli and/or the vice president of the Chamber Giorgio Mulè will no longer be able to create serious problems for him. In recent months, he has not been spared controversial allusions to the too many positions he holds to deal even more with the party.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/lo-scontro-francia-italia-aiuta-tajani-nella-successione-a-berlusconi/ on Fri, 05 May 2023 06:10:56 +0000.