Those two cartridge cases to Matteo Renzi and that surprising unanimous solidarity
In the current times, and to the level of hatred to which the political debate has been reduced in Italy, but also the media debate that usually apes him, although occasionally distancing himself from it, Matteo Renzi can consider himself lucky to have received unanimous solidarity, from exponents of all political forces, for those two shells sent to the Senate and intercepted by the post office. Even the grillini – and not only through the mouth of Senator Stefano Buffagni, indicated by some newspapers, but also through the digital initiative of their highest ranking in the government, who and of course the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio – have deplored the intimidating gesture against the main responsible for the fall and removal of the beloved Giuseppe Conte from Palazzo Chigi.
Nicola Zingaretti did not want to be outdone, so he sent a metaphorical “hug” to Renzi, at the same time indicated by Walter Verini, in an interview, the culprit of the distortion caused to the Democratic Party when he drove him. Other than Etna which perhaps Renzi considers himself, given that scientists assure that the eruptions of the Sicilian volcano are scary but save the planet. After all, the leaguers of the first hour made their debut in the nineties by smearing some bridges on the Milan-Venice motorway to enlist the lava against the mafia and write with pitch: “Forza Etna”.
The surprise, once so pleasant, at least for a naive political reporter, and that nobody, neither among the politicians nor among the many newspapers that are published in our beautiful country, accused Renzi of having sent those two bullets alone to repair himself from the campaign even obtained with the error of that interview and more to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salan: the one already suspected at the time of having the dissident journalist Adman Khashoggi killed and cut to pieces in the Saudi embassy in Turkey.
Just think, and even Il Fatto Quotidiano managed to resist every satirical temptation in the direction of a simulated intimidation, among cartoons, “bad things” of the day and allusions of the director himself in those mornings that often seem to be his editorials. The only anti-Renzian surrender was today that recall on the front page of an italics by Gian Giacomo Migone, indignant because Renzi, practically in the pay of the Saudi prince, his “second employer”, after the Parliament to which he was elected, has not yet resigned spontaneously or has not been forced to do so, for example, by the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. Which was instead the first to complain in writing and verbally about those two shells.
But this italics of the former left senator Migone, must be said with frankness, and nothing compared to the Truth of Maurizio Belpietro, who fired on the front page against the leader of Italia Viva this call, all in black: “Renzi d’Arabia now he has to contend with the widow of the massacred journalist ”. That is with the girlfriend of the murdered, Hatice Cengiz, still amazed that a former Italian prime minister could have mistaken a man like bin Salan for a reformist, or a protagonist of the Saudi “Renaissance”.
However, allow me to remain faithful to Andreotti’s conviction that thinking badly makes you sin but guess what, suspecting the sincerity of Renzi’s thanks for the long-distance hug received by Nicola Zingaretti.
