Winners and losers of the encore of Mattarella
Who won and who lost with Mattarella's re-election to the presidency of the Republic? What can be deduced from the (bizarre) reconstructions of national newspapers. The Scratches of Damato
There is great confusion in the parties, one could say, paraphrasing Mao in some way. But equally great is the confusion in the newspapers, starting – I see – with the most widespread, which is Corriere della Sera . The director Luciano Fontana had prudently corrected Emilio Giannelli yesterday, warning that the "rubble" among which the re-election of Sergio Mattarella as President of the Republic had just taken place were not those of Parliament, represented by his cartoonist on the front page, but of the parties. precisely. However, not all or a little of all parties, as Fontana showed himself to believe: only some, the former director Paolo Mieli has optimistically specified – if not correct – today in the same newspaper. Who writes and talks – on television – always on that ridge between the chronicler and the historian who magnifies the same physical features of Hitchcock and allows him licenses that perhaps his successors in via Solferino would not allow others.
“On closer inspection – wrote my friend Paolo – the parties came out less battered than they appeared to us live. Two of them, the Democratic Party and the Brothers of Italy, are even in a state of discreet euphoria ", despite having also missed the common goal of the election of Mario Draghi, pursued by the one – the Democratic Party – to avoid wear and tear at the head of the government in the last year of this craziest legislature in the world, and on the other, betting on his courage to dissolve the Houses before their expiry, at the first hitch. But this curious convergence and at the same time divergence between Enrico Letta and Giorgia Meloni frankly should give both of them very few reasons for even a "discrete" euphoria, I repeat.
However, the columnist and former editor of Corriere della Sera went even further, acknowledging some reason for complacency even in Silvio Berlusconi in the field of the center-right, which Giorgia Meloni would even like to re-establish after the collapse to which Berlusconi himself would have brought him and Matteo Salvini siding at the end for the confirmation of Mattarella. The old and not very healthy Cavaliere, on the other hand, could take over the leadership of the alliance due to his greater experience and international fame.
Even Matteo Renzi, according to Paolo Mieli, would have emerged from the infernal joust of the Quirinale with some satisfaction that could prove useful to him in the ongoing construction site, even if confused too, of the so-called center area. After all, the senator from Scandicci, despite being counted among the losers – according to the logic of Marco Travaglio in the Fatto Quotidiano – for the failure to elect Draghi to the Quirinale, would have the most right of all to be pleased with Mattarella's confirmation for having sent him the first time at the Quirinale, in 2015, when he was simultaneously secretary of the Democratic Party and Prime Minister and therefore demonstrated excellent skills as a director, or kingmaker. Renzi can also boast of the offensive conducted and won against the attempt by Conte and Salvini to send even the queen of 007 Elisabetta Belloni to the Quirinale.
I was talking about the logic of Labor on the losers identifiable in the non-election of Draghi at the Quirinale, for which Giuseppe Conte would be at the head of the winners: so much a winner that he could reject and overthrow, with the external help of Alessandro Di Battista, the process that inside of the 5 Star MoVement Luigi Di Maio opened to him. He was among the "infiltrated dragons", according to Travaglio, in the various majority and opposition parties. But already this curiously pleased representation of the facts gives the measure – happily underlined by the poster with that Litership cover title – of the confusion or stardust to which the presumptuously "central" movement of the same name is practically reduced to the legislature that emerged from the polls of the now very distant 2018.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vincitori-e-vinti-del-bis-di-mattarella/ on Mon, 31 Jan 2022 06:43:09 +0000.