Who Wants Draghicide?
Words, moods and discontent in the match for the Quirinale. The Scratches of Damato
Not even the list of innocent candidates painstakingly proposed by the center-right – Letizia Moratti, Carlo Nordio and Marcello Pera, in alphabetical order – and immediately rejected by the center-left of Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and Roberto Speranza, who nevertheless prepared for a conclave with the opponents to get out of it only after an agreement has been found on who knows what other name; not even this squad, I said, has removed Mario Draghi from the race at the Quirinale. That Emilio Giannelli on the front page of Corriere della Sera put curled up in a refrigerator, luckily leaving it open and Marco Travaglio "on the bench" with a striking headline in his Fatto Quotidiano . Where a cartoon by Riccardo Mannelli re-proposes the tedious Prime Minister in his quirinal ambition “with good and bad hills”, playing on the morphology of the building of the Presidency of the Republic. In whose courtyard preparations are underway to welcome the successor of Sergio Mattarella with all the honors due. Which, however, is the only one, among the candidates so far voted by deputies, senators and regional delegates, among many blank ballots, to have earned points, going from 16 in the first ballot to 39 in the second: more than double. despite the modesty of the numbers.
The poor Draghi exposed in the press conference on 22 December as " a grandfather at the disposal of the institutions " is now missing only a representation in brine. Il Foglio , the first to launch in the promotional campaign in the name of "better seven years at the Quirinale than seven months, or a little more, still at Palazzo Chigi", headlines in blood red on the front page of a "yellow-green draghicide", half grillino and half of the League, even if – to tell the truth – there is no shortage of either grillini or Northern League supporters who are still convinced of the promotion of the Prime Minister as head of state. And they are not second-rate men, corresponding respectively, among others, to Luigi Di Maio and Giancarlo Giorgetti, both not by chance ministers of a certain institutional importance and political consistency: one to Foreign Affairs, whom all consult sooner or later – or before and after – having talked to Giuseppe Conte to try to better understand the ever-changing internal situation of the 5 Star Movement, and the other to Economic Development.
The "draghicide" rhymes in every sense with the "conticide" coined a year ago in the Fatto Quotidiano by Marco Travaglio, and also translated into a book, to denounce, complain and so on the conspiracy first and the crime then committed to remove from Palazzo Chigi, after only three years and little more than experience, the alleged best head of government had by Italy in its history: the man – other than Draghi – to whom we should all owe the solidarity turn of the European Union in the face of damage of the pandemic, after “the blood and the shit” – my friend Rino Formica would say – scattered from Brussels and Berlin during the years of austerity or austerity community policy.
Crime by crime, there is perhaps some waiting for those who could be consumed in this race to the Quirinale against the candidates who, in good or bad faith, are launched from the right and from the left, attributing them to the hidden projects now of this and time of that line-up: from the president of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati to the former president of the Chamber and now senator Pier Ferdinando Casini, or to the vice president of the Constitutional Court Giuliano Amato, moreover president in pectore of the Consulta for seniority reasons, being expiring Giancarlo Courage.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-vuole-il-draghicidio/ on Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:44:54 +0000.