Women’s Day, now let the glass ceiling of the Quirinale break
Giorgia Meloni posed the problem of the highest hill in Rome to women, defining "not far away the day of a woman at the Quirinale". Damato's Scratches
This 2023 edition is a politically particular women's day in Italy, indeed very particular. A woman is at Palazzo Chigi for the first time as head of government, another has just arrived at the so-called Palazzaccio, again for the first time, at the presidency of the Court of Cassation. Another has already passed to the presidency of the Constitutional Court. Other women – and what a woman in the case of the late Nilde Jotti, without wanting to offend the others happily alive – have passed through the presidencies of the Chambers. Now only the glass ceiling of the Quirinale remains to be broken metaphorically, where four women – the Christian Democrat Rosa Russo Jervolino, the Piddina Anna Finocchiaro, the force activist Elisabetta Casellati and the current head of the secret services Elisabetta Belloni – have only appeared in vain as candidates possible or real.
Well Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister who was yesterday's guest at a ceremony in the Chamber in the Sala delle Donne, where her portrait was added to those of the most titled ladies in the history of the institutions, posed the problem of the highest hill in Rome by defining "not far away the day of a woman at the Quirinale". Il Mattino headlined you on the front page of Naples, not surprisingly by the late Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao.
And if it were or could happen to Meloni to break even that crystal ceiling, and not only to achieve the more modest and close goal proposed of having a woman also reach the position of managing director of an investee company for the first time, i.e. public? Is that too flippant or rash a question? Not even her friend Flavia Perina, former director of Il Secolo d'Italia , dared to ask her, perhaps superstitiously, writing today with admiration in La Stampa about the "speed with which the prime minister is leading her world towards new shores". Where women now arrive without even being warned, as the newly elected secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein said of herself with words not by chance shared by Meloni.
It seems objectively difficult, despite the real and imaginary problems that your government also has, to predict Meloni's exit from Palazzo Chigi before the ordinary conclusion of this legislature. But in the next one, when Sergio Mattarella's second presidential term expires in 2029, the current Prime Minister will be six years older than his current 46. That is, he will be more than the 50 years required by article 84 of the Constitution for a candidate at the Quirinal. Time will tell, with all the precautions naturally imposed by the well-known unpredictability of politics. And with the same fingers crossed, even for her, prudently evoked by Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti announcing the day before yesterday that the risk of a recession is or seems to be "avoided".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/festa-della-donna-ora-si-rompa-pure-il-soffitto-di-cristallo-del-quirinale/ on Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:41:54 +0000.