The real lessons taught by Giorgia Meloni
What is really changing with the Meloni government. Paola Sacchi's note
In the end, even the most strenuous political and media opponents who had raised various alarms about leaving Europe or even Putin's victories in Italy failed to sink the blow. Certain media narratives for scaremongering now have to resort to those on the ghosts of a fascism that no longer existed with the MSI, for half a century in parliament, participating in the democratic life of the country, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recalled.
His successful marathon, at the end of the year press conference on December 29, lasting about 3 hours for 43 questions, marks the return to politics, with a premier leader of the party who won in the polls, the reaffirmation of the principle of Western democracies of alternation.
President Meloni, in the wake of the events, just as the budget law was being approved in the Senate a day in advance, denying all the sinister forecasts or wishes, who knows, of the provisional exercise, was able to say that this "is not the government of the seven plagues of Egypt”, as well as the opposition had feared. At the same time, the owner of the Mef, Giancarlo Giorgetti, exulted: "Mission accomplished".
Meloni, who defined the maneuver approved in advance "a sign of stability", also debunked the alarm played on anti-Europeanism and on a "sovereignty" that remained in certain media narratives in the fixity of the years in which it was roaring. He has claimed all the objectives, achieved for the second half of 2022 with the Minister of European Affairs, Raffaele Fitto, on the Pnrr, despite having inherited them, the centre-right or right-centre government having taken office just over two months ago, more than half from the previous one government of Mario Draghi.
But Meloni has not renounced to underline his idea, stated several times, of Europe, not as a state, but "a confederation", which is based on the principle of "subsidiarity". In the same common program presented by the centre-right in the elections, Europeanism takes first place, even though it places the need for a more political and "less bureaucratic" Europe.
If the protagonist of Meloni's end-of-year press conference was the plastic representation of the affirmation of the principle of political alternation, of bipolarism, with the end of technical or technical-like governments, an all-Italian trend born with Mario Monti in 2011 replacing Silvio Berlusconi's, indicated by the polls, and the attempts by the Democratic Party and the "third pole" to return to proportional representation have failed, perhaps always with a high-level technician like Draghi at the helm, now the challenge is for the centre-left, divided and fragmented internally, called to construct the alternative proposal.
Meloni, who reaffirmed the harmony with his allies Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini ("I trust them"), traced the path of an executive destined to last 5 years. And perhaps a lesson for the center-left can also come from the centre-right, which with Berlusconi founded the path of bipolarism and the alternation of western democracies. Although attempts are made each time to contrast the various nuances of the political forces of the coalition in government, the gamble has so far paid off.
Yesterday in the Chamber on the rave decree, the group leader of FI Alessandro Cattaneo specified that of the 13 Azzurri who did not participate in the vote "only Nazario Pagano did so for a distinction on the revocation of the suspension from the no-vax doctors service, despite having voted yes to trust".
Berlusconi and Salvini, while not renouncing their identity, have agreed to get back into the game in a majority led by the Brothers of Italy, the party of which the premier is president, positively contaminating FdI with their flag themes, which in turn has tainted the allies in a common agenda.
From the justice reform, for which Meloni, who nominated a champion of guaranteeism such as Carlo Nordio, posed the need for a "coupon" and relaunched the separation of careers, to differentiated autonomy, Northern League banner. For which the leader of the Lega Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, expressed his deep appreciation after the head of the department Roberto Calderoli presented the text to the executive: “Autonomy will produce benefits from South to North. Go ahead, determined and compact. Also on Presidentialism which will have different times”. Autonomy, as the Northern League president of Veneto Luca Zaia said yesterday, is not in opposition to Presidentialism (the reform relaunched by Meloni), because, said Italy's most voted governor, "that is also my reform , since there is a president elected by the people”.
Certainly the regional elections of Lombardy and Lazio will not only be a test for the government but also for relations within the coalition. But one thing is almost 9 percent of the League and over 8 percent of Forza Italia as forces that are in government, another thing is the percentages even more than double of a Pd that is declining in the polls and which has yet to find the key of the skein on how to begin the crossing of the desert. Or of other forces such as the "third pole" who pursued the desire for a Draghi bis.
And the shadow of the takeover bid mainly directed at the Pd of the pentastellato leader Giuseppe Conte hangs over the oppositions. All the more so after the "third pole" of Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi saw an agenda approved by the majority on the return to the prescription against the rule desired by the former Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede. If Lombardy is strategic for the centre-right, Lazio seems destined to become the main test for the centre-left.
Meanwhile, Berlusconi, reiterating that FI is the "center of government, to which the Italians have called us", hopes for a new year of "turning point" in terms of growth, taxation and justice.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-vere-lezioni-impartite-da-giorgia-meloni/ on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 06:48:21 +0000.