All the real plans of Silvio Berlusconi on the Quirinale match after his retirement (which implies a relaunch on the presidency of the Council and the next presidency of the Republic). Paola Sacchi’s note
As in all the decisive junctions of his almost thirty-year political affair, which saw him premier four times, the facts certify that the withdrawal, in Silvio Berlusconi’s nature as a fighter, is never conceived as just a step backwards . But it is always to take a step forward, to relaunch even now, at 85 – not a lot as a politician, since I start on the threshold of 60, something that many forget – in the real kingmakers’ squad for the elections of the successor to the Head of State .
His retirement, with the institutional tones of a four-time prime minister, out of a sense of “responsibility”, to prevent his name from favoring divisions, a choice made in the name of “unity of the country”, guaranteed by the highest office in the state, “United that the country needs” in such difficult times, he puts on the plate all his political history and that of his previous life as a great Italian as an entrepreneur of international caliber.
Relaunch, Berlusconi, after his resignation from Palazzo Chigi in 1994, relaunch after his retirement from the Bicameral for institutional reforms, relaunch in the spring of 1999 when I do not let them, as in the Bicameral, that the agreements be made, with him at margins, between the left and its allies, in that case Gianfranco Fini. The election by a very large majority of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was allowed by Berlusconi who thus led to that broad vote in the first ballot for the Quirinale. It was the decisive point of the “crossing in the desert” which brought him back to Palazzo Chigi in 2001.
His retirement now from the Corsa al Colle, to which he had never applied, but had been indicated and supported by the many he thanks, including the leaders of the EPP, has three weights: that of saying no to Mario Draghi al Colle because he emphasizes his needs the continuation of the important and positive work as prime minister; the one in the roster of kingmakers for a proposal, to be made “with the allies of the center-right”, which “by the majority in the country” now “has the burden of presenting it”, a proposal, he stresses, which has “the widest consensus in parliament” ; finally, his type of retirement also has a bearing on the center-right itself.
And under the spotlight that Berlusconi not only wanted a remote summit, remaining in Arcore, but also that in the end he did not even participate, delegating to Antonio Tajani and Licia Ronzulli the announcement of his step back, then motivated in the long and institutional note. As a “statesman”, a reformist leftist like Claudio Velardi recognizes him on Twitter.
The Knight, a high-ranking blue explained to the reporter before the summit, “sent sadness due to the fact that only a few hours after the unitary note a little more than a week ago, where he was asked to dissolve the reserve ‘positively’, the allies then publicly asked for an account of the numbers and continued with many ifs and many buts “.
It is perhaps no coincidence that in the long note Berlusconi stresses that he has verified “the existence of sufficient numbers”. And for those who have known the Knight from the times when he was only a great entrepreneur there would also be bitterness towards Draghi himself, who from the day of the inauguration of the government, “of which I was the first supporter”, underlines, Draghi himself who he was indicated by him to the Bank of Italy and then, after a hard duel with Angela Merkel herself, to the ECB, according to gossip he would never or almost never phoned him and, indeed, it seems that Berlusconi did it for Christmas greetings.
But psychology is certainly not Berlusconi’s real spring in that statement: he truly believes, according to his own, that the government and the decisive work to be completed requires the permanence of a high-caliber figure like Draghi at Palazzo Chigi. And Berlusconi fears that the prime minister in parliament risks having against those snipers the expression of those who do not want to go to early elections. Which would jeopardize even his own tenure in the government at that point.
So, now, according to the purposes of the Cav we should go towards a figure who can collect a wide consensus. An identikit that already seems to exclude Giuliano Amato who was not wanted by the League. And also other center-right figures, according to blue sources, created by the Knight. Who, then
The one drawn by Berlusconi seems to be the identikit of a non-divisive personality, who has never had particular friction with anyone.
Bruno Vespa has drawn a rose with two names in which Draghi himself remains, but also Pier Ferdinando Casini enters. Casini, already an ally in the Casa delle Liberta, has never held government roles, but also parliamentarians at an international level. But it is not known what opinion the Cav is, which limits itself to saying: a name “with a broad consensus in parliament”.
He retired but it was a Saturday when it seemed Berlusconi was still giving the cards. And the new Head of State, now they say in FI, “could have a chance to put an end to the Thirty Years War: the appointment of two senators for life, those who founded and made the center-right and center-left win: Berlusconi and Romano Prodi “.
