What does Berlusconi have in mind?
What is said and what is not said about Berlusconi's real intentions on the Quirinale. The Scratches of Damato
Good. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, although caught in these days of celebration, but also of fear for the Omicron variant of Covid, from the packaging of his personal effects for a move that he does not intend to give up and from the preparation of the year-end speech and – I presume – at the farewell that will be broadcast on the evening of Friday 31 December by unified networks televisions, he found the time to confer the honor of Knight of the Grand Cross on Giovanni Malagò. Who, for eight years president of Coni, certainly deserved it in this golden 2021 for Italian sport.
I just hope that now we journalists, or at least those of us who have remained at the 1968 motto of "fantasy in power", or who have grown up in the cult of that explosion of imagination and revolt, do not get the idea of blowing up the neo Cavaliere di Gran Croce Malagò on the Quirinal joust, as a reserve of the Republic – moreover only 62 years of age – which he can also draw on to untie the knot of the highest hill in Rome.
There are already too many imaginative candidacies for the Quirinale in printed or electronic newspapers, starting – if you allow me – with the one that produced and still produces most of the titles and insomnia I don't know if more than Marco Travaglio, sul Fatto Newspaper , or Enrico Letta to the secretariat of the Democratic Party, evidently insensitive, indifferent and so on to the good information passed to him by his uncle Gianni on Silvio Berlusconi. Which made him even richer in thirty years of working for him than he had already become with the profession of journalist.
"Berlusconi is a divisive candidate even in the center-right" formally barricaded himself a few days ago around his presumed, potential and I don't know what other candidacy, declared his former minister and co-founder of Forza Italia Giuliano Urbani. What follows from Naples – his new city of adoption – the latest version of the race to the Quirinale , after having participated in some previous edition as a "great elector", that is, as a parliamentarian. A certain experience, therefore, has made it possible to talk about it now with a little competence, as well as common sense.
In short, Urbani, to speak out of his teeth, senses the presence on the street of Berlusconi's candidacy of many, too many "snipers", or "free thinkers", as another expert on the subject like the eternally Christian Democrat Paolo Cirino Pomicino prefers to define them . Which still brings on the metaphorical medal table of the so-called first Republic, served for many years, the star obtained in 1992 by participating in the boycott of the candidacy of the secretary of his party, Arnaldo Forlani, at the Quirinale precisely. And he did so in the useless hope of paving the way to the Colle for his friend and superior Giulio Andreotti, ready to participate in the tender also as an institutional solution due to the highest government office he held at that time. But due to the confusion, to say the least, caused by the Mafia massacre of Capaci, with the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and almost the entire escort, the preferred institutional position to pick up the new President of the Republic was that of the Chamber, with the election of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. I don't think Pomicino has a good memory of which, not even as a party colleague.
I thought I could get a better idea of the reasons for Berlusconi's obstinate optimism in his race for the Quirinale, at the age of 85, by reading on the online version of Repubblica a note by the quirinalist of the Press Ugo Magri entitled “Tutti trucchi di Silvio to be voted on ”, by hook or by crook. But the note ends mockingly with a question: "What the hell do you have in mind?" the Knight. To know …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-quirinale-intenzioni/ on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:19:51 +0000.