Joys and sorrows for Giorgia Meloni
Real trouble and trouble invented by the newspapers for Giorgia Meloni. Damato's Scratches
Agreed, Giorgia Meloni came out very badly from the sortie to the Chamber on the photo album of her predecessor Mario Draghi, much larger than the concrete results that he would have brought home in foreign policy during his government. The patch that the prime minister then tried to put up, specifying that she wanted to argue about the Democratic Party which would have made fun of Draghi's photos, was perhaps worse than the patch. Furthermore, that party is no longer led by Enrico Letta, who fully recognized himself in the then Prime Minister, but by Elly Schlein who has different sensitivities, to say the least, even if not yet sufficient to satisfy Giuseppe Conte in the nine guise of pacifist , or almost, aspiring to lead the opposition with that fine wool coat draped like a cloak over his shoulders in the corridors of the Chamber.
I agree, I repeat, on what I have already called the Meloni derailment . And also on the unpleasant surprise just reserved for her by "her" Albania, where President Rama was blocked by the local Constitutional Court on the path to an agreement with Italy to retain on its territory some of the migrants rescued at sea and asylum seekers from us . But let's stop here, please. Let's not attribute to Meloni even incidents that she didn't have, as even Il Foglio , and not just Repubblica and Il Fatto Quotidiano , represented her for that dispatch waved yesterday in the Senate chamber. Where the prime minister accused the second Conte government of having arbitrarily authorized, with a fax from Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, the Italian representative in Brussels to sign the ESM treaty, or state-saving fund, in the version just modified compared to the one dating back to the last Berlusconi government.
Since that fax of membership would bear the date of 20 January 2021, the prime minister could not, much less should, accuse Conte of having acted surreptitiously, "in the darkness", with the still faithful Luigi Di Maio at the Farnesina, despite having resigned and therefore in office only for so-called current affairs, thus unloading trouble on subsequent governments. The resignation of Conte and his second government was in fact formalized at the Quirinale on 26 January, six days after that fax. But anyone who regularly follows politics knows well that for at least twenty days before the second Conte government was in crisis, looking for "willing people" among the ranks of the center-right so as not to succumb in Parliament, worn out by Matteo Renzi from the day after his auspicious birth by Renzi himself still in the Democratic Party in 2019.
On 20 January 2021, therefore, Conte was already with one foot out of Palazzo Chigi and Di Maio was perhaps already guaranteed confirmation at the Farnesina with Mario Draghi. Who, not at all tired – as the then prime minister imagined – of the hardships of the presidency of the European Central Bank, was already confidentially preparing his program and his government, born on 13 February.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/gioie-e-dolori-per-giorgia-meloni/ on Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:14:50 +0000.