The Corriere della Sera has revealed the thoughts and concerns of the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, on the Conte government while he was assisting the Tosca
I wonder if Sergio Mattarella, enjoying on the royal stage of La Scala in Milan, both the show of the Tosca and the enthusiastic welcome, I would even say affectionate, reserved for him by the public, must have wondered, dismayed, what kind of Italy this is, of which it happened to him to represent “national unity” carved in article 87 of the Constitution, but increasingly indecipherable, uncertain, contradictory, in a social and even political scenario just described by Censis with that 48 percent of people so exhausted from the crisis and confusion to be desired by the “strong man”. In whose shoes, perhaps, many would like him to put himself, the head of state, extending to the maximum, in the application of his prerogatives, that accordion that the Constitution has been defined by fine jurists in the light of the use made of it by the tenants who succeeded each other at the Quirinale. But Mattarella would turn pale, and would bend even more than he happens to resemble the late Giulio Andreotti, only to hear about himself as a man who is finally and salvifically strong.
Yet, despite the trust somehow imposed on him by the role both to practice it and to spread it, preventing the situation from worsening and that 48 per cent even rise to 76 already attributed by Censis to those who are disappointed and even fed up with parties, Mattarella is worried. seriously concerned about the political framework. I do not know, frankly, if he is even a little repentant, given the proof that the Giallorossi majority is giving improvised a few months ago with his consent, of not having dissolved the Chambers, even a little more than a year after their election, where the parties have increased and the central one, as it has the majority of seats, that is the 5 Star Movement, it is not clear who it is really directed by: if by Beppe Grillo behind the gates of his villas, difficult to violate the Wall as it once was from Berlin, or by his delegate Luigi Di Maio, with all the shots and discards he reserves for Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in curious, disconcerting competition with the opposition leader and his former ally Matteo Salvini and, within the same majority, with the other Matteo. Which and of course Renzi.
Of the latter, known and well acquainted when he was both secretary of the Democratic Party and Prime Minister, to the point of suggesting to him as an old and patient teacher the books on which to train, then referring them to him in person to prove that he had really read them, he has just written in the his Sunday appointment on Repubblica Eugenio Scalfari as “a true leader conforming to a populist country that inevitably leads to a dictatorship”, although – at the limit – “democratic” as was that of Napoleon, even if he did not want to compare – Scalfari later specified – Renzi to that unique specimen in the world.
As a dictator, however, the man from Rignano, or the senator from Scandicci, or the leader of the newborn Italia Viva, would be for Scalfari more suitable for this Italy than even Salvini. Even on the left he is the most hated and feared man, so much so that he has mobilized against him, filling the squares as the “Our Sea” with the imaginative title of the manifesto, the peaceful, usually harmless sardines, which despite themselves have become a new potential political movement capable of attracting, according to the Demos survey commissioned by the Republic, one in four voters.
It is a sea, that of sardines, into which even Francesca Pascale, the very young and still adoring girlfriend of the over eighty year old Silvio Berlusconi, has dived in some way, amidst surprise, hilarity and so on. To which the young lady advised not to repeat, underestimating the sardines, the mistake made by everyone, even by him, at the first appearances of the grillini. Who at this point could also thank the girlfriend of that shark that they continue to consider the Knight.
To return to Mattarella’s concerns, above and behind the royal box of La Scala in Milan, it is enough to read a “background” of the quirinalist prince of Italian journalism, Marzio Breda, published by Corriere della Sera who knows why on page 6, and not in the first, perhaps as an editorial. Let’s read it together, net of a first part in which the alarm at the Quirinale had become very high in the face of a President of the Council who “exorcised” the crisis of his majority with a mannered optimism: “The tormented compromise reached the other evening on the maneuver he buffered that danger, with a sigh of relief from the premier and also from Mattarella, worried about the consequences on the spread. However, the balance remains fragile and exposed to many unknowns. On the Hill they are evaluating them one by one, while at Palazzo Chigi a time schedule is being studied for the restart of the executive, and while the “bomb squads” of the dialoguing parties work to defuse the most explosive mines, almost all with the timer set in January “. Beyond that month, therefore, not even Mattarella seems to be able to formulate forecasts.
