Why is Repubblica scrambling Renzi and Calenda?
The Scratches of Damato
Who knows why in a particular edition like the one destined to last two days due to the Ferragostan break , the Republic of paper wanted to take sides so clearly against the pole of Carlo Calenda (and Matteo Renzi). So much so that leaders such as Bibì and Bibò were liquidated in a cartoon by Francesco Tullio Altan. A cartoon that – having to exclude the grillini for what Repubblica usually writes about them, especially after the war waged by Giuseppe Conte against Mario Draghi, and the center-right of the three leaders in those parts, one more indigestible than the other, like Silvio Berlusconi, Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, in strictly alphabetical order – is in fact a real sponsorship of the Democratic Party of Enrico Letta and allies, or partners. Who are on the right, let's say this even though they know not to please the interested parties, the radicals + Europeanists of Emma Bonino and Benedetto Della Vedova, on the left the red-green ones of Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli and in the center bushes or individual personalities such as the former pentastellati by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and former Speaker of the House Pier Ferdinando Casini, as well as outgoing senator already an "independent" guest on the 2018 Nazarene lists in his Bologna.
This time, however, Enrico Letta personally re-proposed Casini to the suffering local organs of the Democratic Party, in a letter to Corriere della Sera , as a kind of guardian of the Constitution threatened by the presidentialist "assault" of the center-right, at least in the version that escaped in a gaffe to Silvio Berlusconi prefiguring the resignation of Sergio Mattarella before the expiry of his second term. This was followed by even indignant clarifications from the Knight, as well as distances from Meloni and the Northern League, which, however, were not enough to change the representation of the Berlusconi scenario made by the opponents with predictable timeliness, or equally predictable exploitation.
The rejection of the Calenda (and Renzi) pole by Repubblica is only a matter of antipathy or personal criticism of Maurizio Molinari, the director of the battleship of the publishing group of the Agnelli family covered behind the free zone of satire, or is it really a choice to which sooner or later, in this brief summer election campaign, will they have to adapt to Turin La Stampa and Genoa Il Secolo XIX ? And what would the recently deceased Eugenio Scalfari have said or, even more, thought? Which of Bibì or Bibò – in which of the two you want to identify Renzi – had appreciated and defended the constitutional reform of 2016, even at the cost of hurting the noble collaborator of the Republic Gustavo Zagrebelsky and losing the very aggressive Barbara Spinelli, who converted by reaction to the Daily Done .
But even before defending the constitutional reform, and then letting the interested party fall into the shadow of the referendum defeat and the subsequent electoral defeat, recognizing his temperamental limits, Scalfari had even tried to be Renzi's paternal and great advisor. Of which he had accepted and returned phone calls of greetings and compliments. And to whom he had indicated the books to read on which he could then be interrogated to make sure that he had really read them, indeed studied them well. Finally, Di Renzi, even after the disapproved split of the Democratic Party, Scalfari had certainly appreciated the contribution given to the arrival at Palazzo Chigi of a very special friend like Mario Draghi, not surprisingly among the first to rush to pay homage to the body of the founder of Republic.
Bibì or Bobò that Renzi was in Altan's mind, I really don't think Scalfari would have liked or shared the rejection or the electoral ostracism of “his” newspaper in the somehow double yesterday's issue. Perhaps he would have gone as far as one of the "post scriptum" of his long Sunday comments to lighten the even metaphorical ground.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-repubblica-strapazza-renzi-e-calenda/ on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 04:28:37 +0000.