Why Meloni doesn’t cry in India
What the newspapers say and what they don't say about Giorgia Meloni at the G20. Damato's italics
I don't think that Giorgia Meloni, in India for the G20, stopped laughing when she learned of the decline in support for the government and for her personally attributed to her in Italy by Ipsos in a survey conducted for Corriere della Sera . And analyzed by Nando Pagnoncelli with a certain emphasis, writing about "collapse" in the summary published on the front page. In particular, approval for the government fell to 42 percent and disapproval rose to 47. And "for the first time" since her arrival at Palazzo Chigi last year, the prime minister was given a personal disapproval rating above approval: 52 percent compared to 49 in July.
I don't even think that Meloni was too upset reading in the press review sent to her from Rome the "populism with zero headlines", in red, dedicated to her by Il Foglio with this summary explanation by the director Claudio Cerasa: "First the war on extra profits (and to multinationals). Then against the ECB (and Gentiloni). Hence the security drift. Because Meloni & Co.'s scalp policy is a sign not of strength but of impotence. Clues to a drift." A little further to the right, under the title "The boys of the 3rd C", Il Foglio today picks on the majority parliamentarians for their distractions and absences, albeit due to "euphoria" rather than listlessness or dissent, which they would to "worry" a somewhat regretful Meloni, in particular, for having brought her brother-in-law Francesco Lollobrigida into government by replacing him as group leader of her party in the Chamber with Tommaso Foti. Who, imposing in his gait and eloquence, does not deny himself to any news program to tell the good things done by the government and the bad things said and done by the opposition. Evidently he talks too much and keeps little watch on his troops.
My feeling that Meloni in India was not troubled is based above all on the "vision of the legislature" proposed by the prime minister since her inauguration, when she warned that she would not chase immediate votes, polls and local or partial elections, aiming for those finals, in fact, of the legislature destined to last – also given the conditions of the opposition – until the ordinary epilogue of 2027. And then, it is also true in politics, as Mattia Feltri warns on the front page today in La Stampa , writing about Atalanta and the relationships between managers and fans with this quote from former sports director Pier Paolo Marino: “Whoever governs cannot rely on consensus. Otherwise it means he is governing badly."
But above all I think that Meloni, preferred to Macron in France even by Le Monde , will have been pleased with the 30.2 percent of voting intentions attributed by the Ipsos survey to her party, the 8.1 to the League, the 6, 6 to Forza Italia, its allies, against the 19.5 of the Pd, the 16.4 of the grillini, the 3.5 of Carlo Calenda's Action and the 3.3 of Matteo Renzi: both, the latter, under the threshold for access to the European Parliament to be renewed next year.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-meloni-non-piange-in-india/ on Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:37:59 +0000.