Does the League want to throw a party in Mattarella?
The Northern League's exasperations over Mattarella ruin Republic Day. Damato's Scratches
Republic Day was ruined by the League, exasperated in a claim for national sovereignty just a few days before the elections – next Saturday and Sunday – for the renewal of the European Parliament. A Parliament in which the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, speaking to the prefects in Italy, had seen and indicated "the sovereignty" – verbatim – of the "wider community of the European Union which we have decided to give life to with the other free countries of the continent ”. An interpretative extension – the quirinalist of the Corriere della Sera Marzio Breda tried to explain – of article 11 of the Constitution, which provides for "limits to sovereignty" when joining international organizations aimed at peace.
The Northern League senator Claudio Borghi , no stranger to sovereignist outbursts and suffering – so to speak – since the creation of the euro, sent out a tweet against Mattarella, proposing his resignation "if he really thinks – he wrote – that sovereignty belongs to the European Union and not of Italy".
Interviewed by Monica Maggioni of Rai, the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini did not let himself be held back by the dual government position he holds as vice president of the Council and minister of Infrastructure. Even with the appearance of not having read the tweet of his friend and party colleague, and avoiding also talking about Mattarella's resignation, he essentially repeated Borghi's concepts and protests on the excess, so to speak, of European sovereignty in which the President of the Republic would have been involved. “Take it up a notch,” was the headline in Repubblica .
To the opposition, but also to members of the government majority such as Forza Italia of the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, it did not seem true that it was possible to pour petrol on the fire, or dip the spoon in the slop. And thus they too contributed to spoiling the Republic Day which had just ended with the military parade at the Imperial Forums and the tricolor arrows soaring in the sky of Rome although disturbed by the clouds. Which were nothing compared to those policies that gathered in the final part of this very long electoral campaign that began well before its formal start.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to whom the Corriere della Sera attributed a "request to back down" to Salvini, would have gladly done without this "storm", as the Corriere itself titled it. But she also got this toxic icing on the cake of the vote of 8 and 9 June. We will see if and with what effects on the turnout and on the results of each party, majority and opposition, in a completely proportional system competition.
In his time Amintore Fanfani peremptorily and Tuscanly invited his party friends to cover for him when they made a big deal. Who knows if Meloni knows this and is able, or feels like it, to imitate him in Roman dialect.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/borghi-lega-dimissioni-mattarella/ on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:24:27 +0000.