What changes for Draghi with the return of Berlusconi and Salvini’s move
The return of Berlusconi, Salvini's move and the choice of Meloni. What happens in the center-right at the point by Paola Sacchi
Silvio Berlusconi immediately returns to the center of the scene and Matteo Salvini accentuates his line to assert "national interest with a European spirit".
It would be simplistic to call it a “pro-European turn”, because Salvini had probably been pondering this new course for some time. That Europe should rediscover its roots (Salvini cites St. John Paul the Second in this regard) the Northern League leader had already said in a demonstration in Piazza del Popolo in Rome two years ago. But the yes to the Recovery Fund of the League's MEPs is certainly a turning point in Brussels.
The Cav and the new Northern League course catalyze much of the attention on the final day of the consultations of the prime minister in charge. The yes to Draghi from the League, which was not taken for granted, if he had already displaced the Democratic Party, in the late evening of yesterday causes a clear closure of Beppe Grillo, also present at the consultations, which thunders: never with the League. Salvini does not fall into “provocation” and says: “Incredible Grillo. But let's go ahead with the spirit that President Mattarella asked of us ”.
Giorgia Meloni confirms her no but stresses that hers will be a "constructive and responsible" opposition and confirms "the value of the unity of the center right". The spotlights inevitably turn on above all on the return of Berlusconi, honored in a big way by his parliamentarians who greet him: “Silvio welcome back. Come back soon ".
Berlusconi could not miss it after having first launched the proposal for a unitary government "of the best". He could not fail to come to the appointment with Mario Draghi, the man he himself indicated to lead the ECB, also overcoming resistance in the EU.
"Silvio" returns to Montecitorio after a year. And the video of the Cav and Draghi greeting each other with the elbow immediately became popular on Twitter. The prime minister in charge said to Berlusconi: "Thank you for coming". And the Cav responds with a big smile, taking off his mask for a moment.
A particular observer like Massimo Palmizio, a longtime member of parliament but above all a lifelong friend of the Cav, since he is also a former top manager of his companies – he is one of those 27 Publitalia blues, the first embryo of Forza Italia – underlines with the reporter: " The Lion King has returned to personally take responsibility for the line of yes to Draghi, claiming the primacy of having asked for a high-profile unitary government ”.
It is no coincidence that the former premier, president of Forza Italia and founder of the center-right, motivating his support for Draghi, immediately says “we were the first to ask for a unified response, corresponding to the invitation made by the Head of State”.
Berlusconi specifies that "a new political majority is not born" and that this united response "will last as long as it takes to resolve the health and economic emergency".
If the Cav immediately returns to center stage and tweets sitting “at work in my new Montecitorio office”, Salvini also continues to turn the spotlight on himself. His words are heavy, not obvious: "I have two children who grow up and think like Italians in Europe". That Europe, says Salvini, where Italy "must return to being the protagonist and the rules must be changed because they are no longer suited to our time, as Professor Draghi himself acknowledged".
The Northern League leader is also satisfied because the prime minister in charge mentioned the Genoa model. Relaunch, development, unblocking of construction sites that "could give a million jobs", "no to new taxes" and "let's look to the West, not regimes", Salvini says yes "to a happy growth government because the League it could not be in a government of unhappy degrowth ”. And in the evening comes Grillo's release.
But the Northern League "captain" who increasingly declines the national interest, the policy for immigration control in a European key, also saying that "there is no Salvini model", has now taken away many alibis from his yellow-red opponents, supporters of the "Ursula majority", who would have preferred to have only one additional Berlusconi in the majority of before.
The assignment to Draghi has reset on the very recent past. And the words of Cav himself let it be understood that there are no spaces for Ursula majorities with the League outside. Indeed, Berlusconi also says he is "regretted" for the choice of the president of Fratelli d'Italia Meloni to stay out.
In Brussels itself, the picture appears to have already been revolutionized compared to that majority (PPE, Pse with Fi, Pd and pentastellati) who elected the president, coming from the PPE, of the EU commission. League MEPs Marco Zanni and Mauro Campomenosi, respectively president of Identità and Nazione and head of delegation of the League, announce their support for the Recovery Fund . They are sparks with the German far-right Afd who is part of the same group of IDs.
League now close to the EPP? Salvini glosses over saying "in Europe we are not going to change groups but things". However, a new Northern League course has started, the one that someone already defines as the Salvini 2.0 secretariat. Which, as somewhat malicious observers note, also removes alibis from the area of the so-called “moderates” “of FI. With the risk for the "moderates" that the League, however in the polls growing after the yes to Draghi, could regain the votes that it could lose on the right after Meloni's choice to remain in the opposition.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-cambia-per-draghi-con-il-ritorno-di-berlusconi-e-la-mossa-di-salvini/ on Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:00:36 +0000.