What the newspapers say and don’t say about Draghi’s race towards the Quirinale
Mario Draghi continues to hover like a ghost – I imagine with what perfidious satisfaction of the interested party, silent in his position as Prime Minister – on the race to the Quirinale, for how much effort they have made in the last 48 hours in the center-right first Silvio Berlusconi and then Matteo Salvini , to the applause of the Knight’s Family Journal, to exorcise his candidacy. “Too dangerous to replace him at Palazzo Chigi,” said the secretary of the League after a phone call to Berlusconi, and in contrast to Giorgia Meloni. Which according to the opposition could certainly not share such a generous assessment of the Prime Minister, despite being willing with his brothers in Italy to support the race to the Hill.
There is no meeting in which the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta does not miss a hint or a question in favor of Draghi at the Quirinale or, alternatively, as a “maximum” desirable, a confirmation from Sergio Mattarella. Whose signs of unavailability must have also appeared to him “a crowded catalog of leaves that are more definitive, the more they sound provisional”, as Francesco Merlo just wrote in Repubblica. That following the outgoing president in these days in Palermo he described him as “melancholy and winning, like the Humphrey Bogart of Casablanca”.
Imagination by imagination, they had a lot of it in the sheet dedicating the cartoon-cover of the Monday issue to Draghi to relaunch the candidacy boycotted by what had been and in some ways still remains “our love” for Giuliano Ferrara and friends. That that irredeemable villain of Marco Travaglio in the daily “wickedness” of the newspaper he suspected was taken to the Milanese hospital San Raffaele, for the usual check-ups, making him believe he was going to the Quirinale, despite his renunciation.
A hand to Foglio and Enrico Letta – but also to his Berlusconian nephew Gianni, according to a background recounted in Repubblica by Emanuele Lauria – gave it in favor of Draghi’s continuing candidacy at the Hill the newspaper of Carlo De Benedetti Domani. Whose director himself, Stefano Feltri, went on to tell and explain “why Draghi is the most suitable to take the place of Sergio Mattarella if he looks to the interest of the Italians”. “He knows how to mediate – he specified – among the political forces, has international prestige and is thoroughly familiar with the state machine”, perhaps even more than was attributed to Giulio Andreotti in his time. That once, speaking to me about his experience of government, I tell myself to remember by heart the names of at least the general directors and heads of cabinets of all the ministries, not just the ones he had had the opportunity to drive before becoming prime minister. And to each of them, as to many of the hundreds of thousands of voters who had given him a preferential vote before his nomination as senator for life exempted him from the elections “, he punctually sent his birthday wishes, at least if not name days. .
Who knows, if he were still alive, for whom would Andreotti vote in this round – “wall to wall” or in the dark, as the newspapers headlined – of the presidential election that begins today: the third after his death, in the month of May of 2013. I assume precisely for Draghi, who had certainly not escaped his meticulous attention first as a minister and then as prime minister.
