What happens between Marcell Jacobs and Enrico Letta on the ius soli. The Scratches of Damato
A beautiful Olympics that ended in Tokyo, where he had earned two gold medals as a good Italian, one in the hundred meters and another in the 4 × 100 relay, the fastest man in the world deserved, upon returning to his homeland , a third metaphorical medal for the speed with which he wished to escape the even involuntary trap set by a journalist from the sheet. Who tried to ruin the party by asking him to rule on the so-called ius soli, understood as the right of citizenship due to those born in Italy. Yet this is not even the case of Marcell Jacobs, born abroad to an Italian mother and therefore an “Italian citizen from the first cry”, as the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta rightly observed, without however apologizing to Jacobs for having indicated precisely in the Olympics ,
Jacobs as a good policeman, as well as a good Olympic speed champion, immediately felt the risk of improper political enlistment and opposed the question not with an answer of indifference, as the good soul of Antonio Gramsci would perhaps have dismissed his declaring himself “ignorant on the subject “, but a clear refusal to be” used “. Or to become “a symbol” for competitions that are anything but athletic and Olympic. “I’m an athlete,” he said while failing to mention his membership in the police.
Fortunately for the secretary of the Democratic Party, the Italian elector Marcell Jacobs is not one of those who on 3 and 4 October will have to vote in Siena on his election as deputy to replace the former Piddino Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan who passed to the better life – I think – as president of Unicredit, and as such the buyer of a historic bank such as Monte dei Paschi which had been devastated by a politicization that could have been spared. At a guess, I don’t think Jacobs would vote for the secretary of the Democratic Party in Siena. And, frankly, he could not even be blamed for the political recklessness with which the aspiring deputy tried to “use” – Jacobs would repeat – an athlete and a competition to spend “greater general awareness” of a certain choice. or political line.
Even in this search for allies, even if on paper he can count on some help – I believe – among the Berlusconian forceists and even among the even more hated Renzians, Enrico Letta will have to beware even of his privileged interlocutors. Which are, or would be, the grillini now finally led by former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Among which there are some – and of true contiani such as the vice president of the Senate Paola Taverna – who are little or not at all convinced of the urgency of the so-called ius soli. So rightly on the front page, referring precisely to the position of the Tavern, the Reformist asked Letta if he knows that “the 5 Stars also say no” to the project that he waves as an identity flag of his party.
