Will Draghi also challenge his wife for Brussels?
Appeals, moves and aspirations of Mario Draghi. Damato's Scratches
Mario Draghi therefore – the "Rieccolo" renamed by Unità as Indro Montanelli wrote about Amintore Fanfani – would have allowed himself to be tempted by Brussels to rise to the presidency of either the Executive Commission or the European Council in the EU.
If this were really the case, as almost all the newspapers wrote, even those of the opposite political orientation, he would not have taken into account the pessimism of his wife Serenella. Who recently indulged in an outburst with Foglio against the envious and insurmountable hostility of politicians towards her husband, already experienced when, as a "grandfather at the disposal of the institutions", he actually proposed to move from Palazzo Chigi, where he had taken his place of Giuseppe Conte, on what is in every sense the highest hill in Rome.
DOES VON DER LEYEN OBSTACLE DRAGONS?
The one to pass the ball to Draghi in this new game would have been self-defeatingly the outgoing president of the Commission herself, the German Ursula von der Leyen, candidate for confirmation by her party, that of the People's Party, giving him the task of a study and a report on vital problems of competitiveness in the Union. Which Draghi carried out with the usual competence and diligence, anticipating its conclusion with the prospect of a "radical" community turning point, the Union having been born and having gradually regulated itself in conditions now out of date, indeed very out of date. And who better than him – the implication of his reasoning seemed to be – could guarantee and manage the change, also thanks to the long experience gained as president of the European Central Bank. Where he saved the single currency from a resounding failure with his determination.
Naturally, we will have to see whether after the European elections on 9 June we will be able or willing to create the conditions, i.e. the political convergences necessary for the rise of the former Italian prime minister. Which the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa – presumably not to the surprise of his party colleague and friend, and Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni – was keen to recognize all the qualities required by the positions he seems to want to aim for.
Yet, a voice, if not against, at least skeptical, also arose from the newspaper directed by Meloni's former spokesperson, Libero by Mario Sechi, as well as from the very predictable Fatto Quotidiano by Marco Travaglio.
The feeling that Draghi is too technical and elitist compared to a political solution determined by popular or electoral consensus has almost brought together the devil and holy water. Sechi, in particular, who attributes the failure of his race for the Quirinale to Draghi's poorly maintained relationship with the parties, without accusing him of the "Conticide" instead contested by Travaglio, imagines the "Rieccolo" at the helm of the Union as a sailor accustomed to "automatic pilot". Who does not notice victims and damage along the way, or underestimates both. “Old stuff”, commented Il Fatto .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-sfidera-anche-la-moglie-per-bruxelles/ on Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:06:14 +0000.