The turmoil in Forza Italia
What the blue Giorgio Mulè, vice president of the Chamber, says and what he makes clear about Forza Italia, Meloni, La Russa and beyond. Damato's Scratches
Fifty-five years to come on April 25, Liberation Day, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, former Undersecretary of Defense in Mario Draghi's government, even further back in the years, director of Panorama , proudly Sicilian of origins, Giorgio Mulè wanted to get rid of any scruples speaking to La Stampa and to Secolo XIX of the highly presumed, according to him, "governist" turn in favor of Giorgia Meloni, imprinted on his party by Silvio Berlusconi before the hospitalization still underway in intensive care at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
“Professions of faith at the moment – said Mulè speaking of Easter just celebrated – must be concentrated in one direction only: Berlusconi recovers and will once again be the lion we have always known. All other professions of faith, such as loyalty to the Meloni government, are dissonant ”. “Our support – specified the vice president of the Chamber – already exists, it is useless to repeat it over and over again. It has never failed”, not even when he himself created some problems in the majority with controversies that were rebuffed with a certain annoyance by the Prime Minister, but even more so by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa. Whose "dislike" underlined by the interviewer Francesco Olivo is widely reciprocated. "If he had any idea how much it matters to me to dislike him, he would have an idea of the immensity", said Mulè, then judging the way in which the second state office is exercising its role: "The silences and embarrassments of his Party colleagues speak volumes about his positions. Institutions are sacred." And La Russa is evidently not treating them as they deserve and "as I try to do every day in my small way", claimed the vice president of Montecitorio, perhaps not realizing that he too is contributing with this personal controversy to treating them badly.
Although managed with a certain prudence, published on page 8 by both newspapers without a mention on the front page that perhaps it would have deserved due to the almost spasmodic attention that the information reserves for Berlusconi's health but also for that of his political creature, Mulè's interview also dismisses the changes that have taken place in the party due to the personal decision of the founder, including the replacement of the group leader in the Chamber Alessandro Cattaneo and a certain provisionality of the group leader in the Senate Licia Ronzulli. “This -said Mulè- is a story whose history still needs to be written. Alessandro and Licia have done nothing but be the speaking voice of Berlusconi. It will not be the change of an arrangement that determines the mutation of our genetic code”. Which – Mulé said in another passage – must be defended "in the coalition" of government, "despite the balance of power that would give us losers", and attempts to consider the forzisti as "replicants" of Meloni's party .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/i-subbugli-in-forza-italia/ on Tue, 11 Apr 2023 05:54:21 +0000.