The frenzies of the Macronian De Benedetti
What De Benedetti said about the Democratic Party and the Meloni government. Damato's Scratches
It is not the first time that Carlo De Benedetti has expressed himself negatively on the Democratic Party, for which he also claimed membership card number 1, feeling at home with the founder and first secretary Walter Veltroni. Of which he fully shared the so-called majority vocation, which should have freed him of many minor and annoying allies, which had already cost the life of Romano Prodi's first government, and would soon have demolished the second as well.
Too bad that, in addition to not foreseeing, or even wanting – as some accused him – also the second beheading of Prodi, the still fresh first secretary of the Democratic Party immediately waived the majority vocation, electorally related to Antonio Di Pietro. Which didn't bring him much luck, playing the joke of immediately getting back on his own with autonomous parliamentary groups, in the presumption – he said, alas listened to – of marching divided to better strike united.
They ended up as both ended up: one, Veltroni, however having the parachute of culture that allowed him to produce films, books, editorials in the Corriere della Sera of all respect, the other dividing himself between one law firm of which I have read and heard very little, in any case less than I had expected, and its olive collections, in the legendary Montenero di Bisaccia. Which served as the backdrop for many journalistic re-enactments of his long-gone deeds as a magistrate.
Accused at the beginning of a long interview with Aldo Cazzullo with whom he wanted to return to the bedside of the seriously ill patient, of having "conquered the bourgeoisie", starting with him who I hope will not be offended by being defined as bourgeois, and of having "lost the people”, the Democratic Party was represented by the editor of Repubblica e ora di Domani as “a party of barons bolted to the government for ten years without ever having won an election”. And "the Letta secretariat" still in office for the handling of congressional affairs is "a disaster". And the Democratic Party, again him, modeled in his image and likeness by the former prime minister who retired to Paris for a while to forget Matteo Renzi who had rudely removed him from Palazzo Chigi, "arrogant", "opinionated" and responsible, with his solitary run in the last electoral campaign, of the "victory of the right".
In truth, some comrade or street friend Enrico Letta sought him out and wanted to, even managing to hold them back, unlike Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi who only met for a few days. The secretary of the Democratic Party has lost them by preferring to them the tiny left of Nicola Fratoianni and the equally tiny green Angelo Bonelli. But De Benedetti may not have noticed it, as well as Emma Bonino and Benedetto Della Vedova glued to the + of Europe, not of their electorate.
Not even the preferential choice of Mario Draghi, I'm not saying as an ally, because he wasn't in the electoral match, but as a person competent and authoritative enough on an international level to boast of supporting him, was right according to De Benedetti. It was – he said – like "looking to the past", rather than to the "future" that Italians "need". And so the engineer has also settled the former president of the European Central Bank. Do you want to put the divinatory and captivating ability of Giuseppe Conte from Volturara Appula? Yes, the 5 Stars were the right choice, rejected for the aforementioned arrogance and, moreover, for "stupidness".
Strengthened by all this polemical and academic paraphernalia, in the professorial sense, of the political school starting with the abc, De Benedetti has granted some saving advice for at least the immediate future. It is that, for example, of working immediately to bring down Matteo Salvini by marrying the candidacy of Letizia Moratti for the presidency of Lombardy, and with him the entire "disastrous", "abhorrent" government and anything else that bears the name of Giorgia Meloni. Who may have enchanted, with or without her daughter Ginevra, someone at the G20 in Bali, starting with the president of the United States so admired, indeed loved by De Benedetti, but she remains naive, to say the least, who had mistaken Emmanuel Macron for someone who "must govern immigration in the Mediterranean" and not France, where "he has a strong right-wing opposition, with Le Pen and Zemmour".
With this few adversaries at home, indeed at home with a capital letter, "it was clear – De Benedetti sent the French president to say to the Italian prime minister and his ministers – that they would jump around his neck with a ship that was off the coast of Italy. Yet he did. And the Italian government has demonstrated tremendous political ignorance. He's lost an ally, in a mistake a grade-schooler would have avoided." In short, let's go back to the abc. “A figure for chocolatiers”, the engineer said again without explaining what the chocolatiers have actually done to him.
Well, we'll see if De Benedetti will also grant the "barons" of the Nazarene some supplementary evening lessons on how to get out of the crisis into which they have gotten themselves. Of course, usually parties don't like to be taught from outside. Even Eugenio Scalfari noticed it at the time, in agreement with his then friend and publisher De Benedetti, advising the PDS-ex-Pci to vote for Giovanni Spadolini at the Quirinale rather than Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Those, the post-communists, did the opposite. It was 1992. And from there things were born.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-frenesie-del-macroniano-de-benedetti/ on Sun, 20 Nov 2022 07:04:22 +0000.