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The minister Thick European commissioner? It is increasingly difficult to dismiss the prime minister's party as a "populist, anti-European" right, etc. Sacchi 's note
The German newspaper Die Welt points out, almost surprised, that for the first time "an exponent of the populist right" could be at the top of the EU commission. But for those who know Italian political geography this somewhat extremist and reductive label does not give the exact idea of the political character of Raffaele Fitto, given by the German newspaper as the EU executive vice-president with responsibility for the Economy and aid for reconstruction after Covid.
Fitto, a leading exponent of Fratelli d'Italia, minister for European Affairs and Pnrr, already among Silvio Berlusconi's dolphins at the time when he was a young rampant lion of Forza Italia for which he was the youngest regional president in Puglia and then record holder of preferences at the 2014 European elections, he probably would not have seen his name associated with such a prestigious position at the top of the EU if he had simply been "an exponent of the populist right".
The true Christian Democrat origins, of the DC one however clearly opposed to the left, the party of his father Salvatore, who died at the age of just 47 in a road accident, president of Puglia, deeply rooted and loved in the area, have made the difference. They marked the prudent and diplomatic but rigorous approach, a certain discipline in competence, which made Fitto hit the mark in European summits, regardless of whether the nomination will go through with all the delegations mentioned in the background of Die Welt . And despite Giorgia Meloni abstained on the confirmation of Ursula von der Leyen and her party voted against.
An appointment of Fitto at the highest level at the EU summit would be the definitive and sensational denial of the alleged isolation of Italy which has become the workhorse of centre-left oppositions in an anti-Italian key in order to attack the centre-right. And in the internal balance of the government coalition it would also be an objective challenge to Forza Italia, the only party (Italian exponent of the EPP) of the Meloni government that voted for von der Leyen. Even FdI, of which Fitto is an exponent, would hit the mark, making an important mark with this result in the so-called moderate electorate.
It is increasingly difficult to dismiss the prime minister's party as a "populist, anti-European" right, etc.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/effetto-fitto/ on Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:05:20 +0000.