I’ll tell you about the latest fist fight between Conte and Renzi
Not only Renzi and Conte. The latest political squabbles before the vote. The Scratches of Damato
Luckily this evening, with the latest street rallies and televised appeals, this election campaign, curiously blessed by the friends of Il Foglio, will end with that already nostalgic title in red: "Avercene this way", with "opponents talking, few demonizations, attempts ( even if clumsy) to be reliable ". And with the question: "Are you sure it was a very bad campaign?". The founder and my friend Antonio Padellaro even found it "hilarious" in the Fatto Quotidiano.
Even if ignored by all the newspapers in the front pages, that television announcement by Matteo Renzi to Barbara Palombelli – on the fourth Berlusconian network – of having sued for defamation Giuseppe Conte is a bit emblematic news not of the fun but of the tragedy of Italian politics . Which has long accepted that it is more the courts than the parties who practice it.
Yet Renzi is one of those who, even on his own skin, should have learned something on the subject. The chameleonism of the former Prime Minister, now fortunately only president of what is left of the 5 Star MoVement of 2018 – a chameleonism that eight signatures are dealing with today in Repubblica – is all political stuff, or junk, not judicial . That challenge that Conte made him to go and attack the grillino income of citizenship in the squares of the South, "without an escort", was all political. And if the citizenship income took the place of the shoes and spaghetti of Achille Lauro's distant times, before the crime of the exchange vote was born, this too is a damn political fact. Moreover, Renzi was also reprimanded when he collected votes as Prime Minister, before the referendum accident on the constitutional reform, with those eighty euros more – if I remember correctly – stuffed into the paychecks of the public service.
The senator of Scandicci is still proud of those eighty euros, openly or boldly regardless of the antipathy reserved for him by his opponents for the ease with which he managed in the legislature now behind us to assemble and dismantle governments and majorities, up to Palazzo Chigi more than a year and a half ago Mario Draghi. Of which Conte still has a fear to death for the weight he may have on Italian parties even after he managed to get him resigned, without however getting rid of his ghost, just returned from the United States with a lot of other international prestige on him. Who was vainly mocked with images of the little-attended United Nations assembly hall at the time he happened to be able to speak.
The speeches, the situations, the conjunctures are not judged by the number of spectators. Full squares and empty ballot boxes, cried Pietro Nenni in the distant 1948, commenting on the electoral flop of the "popular front" that he had had the misfortune to compose with the communists, giving them, among other things, overtaking the socialists in defeat.
Think, for example, wanting to stop at the Roman Piazza del Popolo where last night the center-right anticipated the victory party now attributed to it by the opponents, forced only to hope to contain it at the last moment, that so many people and so many flags were worth more than that stolen photo -before Berlusconi's late arrival- to Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Renzi sitting in conversation between the stalls? Personally, that photo intrigued me more than any other of the Roman evening of the center-right, and of the leaders taken on stage alone or all together.
Those two secluded and considered by many competitors rather than allies, one more suspicious than the other, gave me the impression that underneath they may be complicit in who knows what defense plan from Berlusconi and – far away, in Brussels – from the surveillance just announced. by the president of the European Commission in person, Ursula von der Leyen.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-renzi-querela-diffamazione/ on Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:20:13 +0000.