Why Salvini sul Colle makes anti-Berlusconi rejoice
How the newspapers see Salvini's moves in the Quirinale match. The Scratches of Damato
Poor Berlusconi, one might say seeing him in his obstinate race to the Quirinale hanging not only from the attacks of his opponents, also discounted in the form of the sublimated derision in the title-cover of the poster "Conta che ti pass", but also or even more from the licenses that one they grant allies and even close friends every day, forcing him to pursue them with phone calls, requests for clarification, outbursts and presumed final clarifications, even semi-finals. Poor Berlusconi, I wrote, which would mean if it had not been he who wanted to put himself in this situation that no doctor – I believe – has prescribed him as a supplementary cure for the after-effects of Covid . That until a few months ago they forced him to enter and leave the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
“Lo strappo di Salvini”, from his point of view, titled the anti-Berlusconian Republic with optimism, even in the now post-Scalfarian version. Tear, as if Berlusconi were a revived Brezhnev and Salvini a revenant, too, Berlinguer. That he was so eager to emancipate himself from Moscow with his PCI that he deserved a half attack in Bulgaria, where a military vehicle hit his car bound for the airport but managed to kill only the driver. "Salvini tries to escape from B. (but then returns)", titled Il Fatto Quotidiano with paradoxical relief, evidently fearing that who knows what name equally or even more unwelcome to Marco Travaglio the Northern League leader had decided to propose to the other parties for " to remove Berlusconi from the Hill ”, as the press headlined.
“Salvini presses the Cav. and opens a new oven ", Il Foglio titled as if the Northern League leader, encouraged by his father- in- law Denis Verdini from house arrest to become the so-called kingmaker in this edition of the race at the Quirinale, was a revived Giulio Andreotti from the times in which he accused Bettino Craxi to claim the monopoly of the production and sale of bread to the DC, but also to other parties.
It is all a flourishing, as you can see, of historical courses and appeals in the representation of this race to the Quirinale that Berlusconi has managed – it must be recognized – to animate around his acting, perhaps until the last useful moment, when retiring from it he will try to to recapture the kingmaker figure in extremis contested by him outside and even within the center-right coalition itself. “Play a game in the mirror”, wrote about him perhaps rightly in Corriere della Sera Tommaso Labate. To which it appears, I do not know whether rightly or wrongly, that the Knight has decided or is looking for a private face-to-face with Matteo Renzi, despite the former partner of the Nazarene pact having already publicly said that a candidate from the center-right or around him he would vote, and have his people vote, as long as he is different from a now too bulky Berlusconi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-salvini-sul-colle-fa-gioire-gli-anti-berlusconi/ on Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:22:59 +0000.