How and why Salvini and Berlusconi take advantage of Ius scholae and cannabis
What Salvini and Berlusconi say. Paola Sacchi's note
Matteo Salvini had already said it, according to an indiscretion of the Agi , in a federal council after the fiery days of the Mattarella bis, which had put him at the center of fiery controversies, and the split of the center-right: "Now everyone put their face ". And yesterday it was Giancarlo Giorgetti, the powerful minister head of delegation to the government, whose old friendship with Draghi is forced by the mainstream, to put it there, wearing the clothes of the man of the League of yesterday and today.
Who better than him, portrayed as the "super-Draghian", a strong man of the triad of Northern League deputy secretaries, could send the prime minister the firm message in which he essentially asks, in order to avoid the crisis, to rebalance the political action of a majority appeared, between ius scholae and cannabis, too biased to the left?
Giorgetti does not say exactly that, but the political substance sounds like this. In front of the historic headquarters in Via Bellerio, in Milan, he affirms: “The League is a responsible movement, but it is right that its ideas are valid. Because the League is the League and it carries out its ideas in the territory and where it governs ”. From the national to the regional level, "it is right that he takes his line forward". He closes a little cryptically: “Government crisis? I don't decide. Ask the group leaders. It is the parliament that decides to trust the government ”.
Only a superficial or artful reading, to fuel divisions, could see in the output of Giorgetti, delegated to speak after the meeting of the League's elite, a "commissioner" of the leader Salvini. On some sites appear titles that have disappeared such as: Giorgetti corrects Salvini, no exit from the government. But, according to the ancient rules of the house, one cannot leave such an important summit in Via Bellerio without having first agreed with the federal secretary himself who speaks in front of microphones and notebooks.
Salvini warned on Twitter: "The League will show what it's made of". But it was evident that this was not a threat of immediate crisis. Because this will be decided after the September appointment in Pontida. What "the League is made of" is the image of a structured party, as opposed to the Five Stars, even the oldest in parliament, which does not intend to be "humiliated" with battles on "divisive" themes of the Democratic Party and the left "when the priorities are other, with economic issues at the center". "Government and majority – it emerged from the summit, according to Lega sources – must focus on increasing salaries and pensions, freezing landings and cutting taxes and bureaucracy, not on free drugs or easy citizenship".
And at the end the League with Giorgetti, flanked by the group leaders in the Chamber and the Senate, Riccardo Molinari and Massimiliano Romeo, and the other minister Erika Stefani, also present Massimo Garavaglia, appears compact in front of the headquarters. Compact starting from the fact that Salvini's leadership is not touched, “it is not in question”, says Giorgetti himself. Which had had different nuances with respect to the leader, such as, for example, on the location in Europe.
Salvini will be in Rome today, where he will meet the senators, after having gathered the deputies in recent days. It is clear that the "captain", who saved the League, holder of most of the Northern League vote package, despite the price paid for the "responsible" choice to stay in government, the leader at the center of a media offensive for months, on the part of the left and the mainstream, which would like to nail him to the folkloric image (revived in a viral way, bordering on a sort of anthropological racism) of the so-called Papeete crisis (the yellow-green thorn in the government was actually disconnected in a meeting in the square in Pescara) has decided to avoid exploitation. And also to make it appear plastically that his is the line of the whole League. Even the so-called "governist wing", the very one that pushed the most in the wake of the pressure of entrepreneurs from the North to join the executive. "Thus the left undermines the stability of the government," say the group leaders. In short, if the plug were to be unplugged, you can already feel it: it will not be the fault of the Lega and Salvini. A similar message against the imbalance to the left of the majority of what was born as the national emergency government to which everyone was called comes from Silvio Berlusconi.
After a summit with the Italian staff, the Knight warns: "We are deeply worried about the fibrillation that is being discharged on the government, at a time when stability and dialogue are needed". He points the finger, as does Antonio Tajani, against the left: "Provocations or tests of strength such as the unacceptable proposal on home cultivation and the use of cannabis, staples such as the one on the so-called Ius Scholae create instability and confusion". Berlusconi underlines: "We are in favor of rules that allow young immigrants who attend an entire school cycle to obtain citizenship, but the opposition of the left has rejected all our common sense proposals in Parliament, showing that they are not interested in the final result". Then, the Cav also puts economic issues at the center, reiterating that it will move together "with the center-right allies". In short, the message that comes to Draghi from the center-right of the government is: the executive belongs to everyone, no imbalances towards the Democratic Party, the left and the Five Stars.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giorgetti-salvini-governo-draghi/ on Tue, 05 Jul 2022 05:21:33 +0000.