What the center-right newspapers murmur about Gianni Letta
Those surprise (but not too much) comments from the Libero and Giornale newspapers on Gianni Letta and Quirinale. The Scratches of Damato
The more Silvio Berlusconi remains in the race for the succession to Sergio Mattarella, even behind the curtain of a reserve still to be dissolved, the more the Quirinale scenario is reduced to two figures: Mattarella himself for a confirmation, despite his insistent unavailability, and Mario Draghi for the first direct promotion, in the history of republican Italy, of a prime minister as head of state.
This reality was well perceived in the center-right by Matteo Salvini when he commented on Enrico Letta's no, with the unanimous consent of the leadership and parliamentary groups of the Democratic Party, to the overly "divisive" candidacy of Berlusconi and the proposal for a negotiation between all the left for an end-of-term pact, without early elections and with an agreed solution for both the Quirinale and Palazzo Chigi. "Let's not pull the jacket on either Mattarella or Draghi", replied the head of the League and for the moment also of the coalition invented by Berlusconi himself, whose party was, however, overtaken by the League in the 2018 elections.
Ignazio La Russa also realized this inevitable development of the race at the Quirinale, on behalf of the right headed by Giorgia Meloni, declaring to Corriere della Sera : “The hypothesis of an election of Draghi is no better or worse than the others. On our part, there is no veto on his candidacy ”. On the other hand, the veto expressed several times by Meloni herself against a confirmation from Mattarella seems to remain.
After all, that things go or can go in the direction of Draghi at the Quirinale, despite the inexhaustible Vittorio Sgarbi plans to make at least another 65 phone calls to undecided parliamentarians and the like to convince them to vote for Berlusconi, the former undersecretary, councilor must have warned him. , ambassador and anything else of the Knight, Gianni Letta, preceding the summit of the center-right, the day before yesterday on the Appia Antica, with a visit to Palazzo Chigi. Where he appears to have met with the head of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister but no one has confirmed or denied that he ultimately spoke with Draghi himself, as if to warn him that things were turning out for him very differently from what they would have appeared with the official formalization of the candidacy by Berlusconi.
On this visit of Gianni Letta to Palazzo Chigi, after the convivial meeting in which he had participated, there had already been reactions of skepticism or concern even in Villa Grande. But today the case broke out on the entire front page of the unsuspected Libero , led by the former editor of the Berlusconi family newspaper , Alessandro Sallusti, and lined up for the candidacy of the former prime minister at the Quirinale. “Read continues”, the newspaper headlined, paraphrasing the continuous struggle of the years of lead. “Uncle and nephew's plans for the Colle”, added Libero in the title, thus flanking Berlusconi's former undersecretary with his nephew Enrico, Pd secretary clearly opposed to Berlusconi at the Quirinale.
“The Colle game – wrote Sallusti in the editorial – is all in one surname: Letta. Yes, because in the field of the center-right to lead the operations is Gianni Letta – for all "the doctor" because only to name him comes fear – since 1987 Silvio Berlusconi's shadow man with the power of life and death over everything that moves from them parts and more ". At this point, the good Augusto Minzolini, director of Berlusconi's family newspaper , writes that the current Quirinale match is the search for a peace "between two opposing sides": a peace that "only generals can sign ", Not being able to" guarantee neither the colonels, nor characters who have invented the job of peacemaker. " Does he also allude to Gianni Letta?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-mormorano-i-giornali-di-centrodestra-su-gianni-letta/ on Sun, 16 Jan 2022 06:44:24 +0000.