What is Renzi planning for the Quirinale
Moves, counter-moves, moods, thoughts and projects of Matteo Renzi on the Quirinale according to the newspapers
When the political news was still, or had become again, a serious matter after the twenty years of fascist paper tissues, in the newspapers there was the rule that the more the parties or their currents were small but – alas – decisive for the survival of the majorities, the more their congresses or conventions had to be followed. For which the best signatures were mobilized, who perhaps went to do their work with binoculars hung around their necks to scrutinize, if necessary, the distant faces of the characters considered most important or decisive in the maneuvers, spying on their encounters and grimaces.
Now, however, it may happen that the eleventh edition of the usually agitated Renzians gathering in the historic Leopolda station opens in Florence, close to what was once said to be the mother of all battles, talking about the race to the Quirinale and its possible effects. on the current government, and on the majority of newspapers there is no trace of the event on the front page. Or if they find very fragile ones in the first pages of the others, even with titles, headlines and anything else that attribute Renzi's usual projects, conspiracies and the like to full-blown, proud "balance sheet".
The man still boasts of having with less than fifty parliamentarians at his disposal out of about a thousand that he at least created the conditions that allowed Sergio Mattarella last February to send a gentleman without a party but with a lot of personal prestige to Palazzo Chigi, and international, such as Mario Draghi. There will also be exaggeration, for heaven's sake, in Renzi's war bulletins, but something certainly happened in that direction with his help, at least. And the former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the nostalgic adoring people who are dying to take revenge, perhaps with the usual help of some "random" – for charity – judicial investigation, are not at all determined to forgive him.
The latest on Renzi's ability to maneuver, intrigue, conspiracy and anything else can be found in the newspaper Domani dell'omito Carlo De Benedetti with the announcement of the gestation of Paolo Gentiloni as successor of Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale, leaving Draghi at Palazzo Chigi and sending to Brussels, in place of Gentiloni himself as European commissioner, a man, a woman, a trans, as you like, by Silvio Berlusconi, so happy to be able to escape a personal climb to the Colle frankly similar more to a dream than to a objective, more to an illusion than to a project, with all the years and even political scars that the Knight has on after a life of campaigns of all kinds.
Well, with all this little bit of scoop, true or presumed, about Renzi and the ex-trusted Gentiloni, already sent by him to Palazzo Chigi after the sensational defeat in the 2016 referendum on constitutional reform, not even Tomorrow has decided to tell something of the gathering at the Leopolda. Where the correspondent of Repubblica , the former newspaper of De Benedetti, instead reported that he had seen "real files outside the station": real, not extras with a travel basket. “It's the Leopolda, my friends. From here – brilliantly told the correspondent of the Foglio , where Renzi was pampered for some time as the " royal baby " of "our love" Silvio Berlusconi – usually big jokes are thrown, Perozzi style, and sometimes lucky gypsies , sometimes less. It is the return of the Florentine station to the center of politics. But no one understands this time where Matteo Renzi's train will stop ”. Better to keep away from it, others must have thought.
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-sta-architettando-renzi-per-il-quirinale/ on Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:35:02 +0000.