I’ll tell you about the last crickets of Count Maramaldo
Conte keeps the crown of leader of the Italian progressives tightly on his head, placed on him with self-defeating generosity by the Democratic Party itself. Damato's Scratches
But how many cheeks is the face of Elly Schlein 's Democratic Party made of, given the slaps – or "snags", according to Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica in an unusual commonality of titles – that she manages to take from Giuseppe Conte, taking them without escaping? A face well represented by the president of the Apulian region Michele Emiliano after the meeting in which the former prime minister had personally communicated and explained to him the withdrawal of his councilor and a half from the council, and the renunciation of any other institutional snack for reasons of morality. That is, to vindicate what Enrico Berlinguer called "the diversity" of the communists who imprudently offered themselves with the proposal of the "historical compromise" to the Christian Democrats and then even more imprudently contented themselves with supporting the one-party governments from the outside.
Rather than complaining about Conte's decision, which was not decisive for survival in the region, Emiliano appeared satisfied with the journalists, confident, optimistic, grateful for the "advice" received from those who now work in broad daylight, without either total or partial, against the party of Emiliano himself, as well as of Schlein. Of which party the president of the 5 Star Movement is pursuing "the demolition", according to Piero Sansonetti's Unità ", or more simply the overtaking already in the European elections of 9 June to better aspire to a return to Palazzo Chigi, if and when he emerges from it Gorgia Meloni.
COUNT, LEADER OF THE PROGRESSISTS
While waiting for this unlikely change, Conte is holding tightly to his head the crown, without thorns, of leader of the Italian progressives placed on him with self-defeating generosity at the time by the PD itself with the hands of the then secretary Nicola Zingaretti and that sort of breeder of horses from his stable which was and still is felt to a certain extent, supporting Schlein, the cumbersome Goffredo Bettini. Cumbersome in every sense.
In those two photographic images of Conte lined up with his followers like the president of a half-court martial and of Emiliano driving away from the Region building as happy as Easter, there is all the drama of a Democratic Party that experiences it like a funny or even invigorating comedy. A party that does not enter but exits, re-established, from a resuscitation department, also given the centrality of the theme of health care perceived by the grillini in the pursuit among the aspirants for primacy in the alternative cultivated in television lounges, among its parables, by another who trusts Conte: the former secretary of the Democratic Party and failed Prime Minister Pier Luigi Bersani, barely held back in 2013 by the then President of the Republic and party comrade Giorgio Napolitano on the adventurous path of a "minority" government and combat” hanging on the moods, or laughter, of a Beppe Grillo who had not yet discovered the resource of a Count, taking him away from the professions of business lawyer and Apulian law professor in Florence.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-gli-ultimi-grilli-del-conte-maramaldo/ on Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:51:27 +0000.