Dear Director Feltri,
could you clarify once and for all the matter of the alleged removal by Giorgia Meloni of the police officers working inside Palazzo Chigi? We have read about it in all the newspapers with plenty of nameless testimonies, as is the custom now, rumors, insinuations, deductions, hypotheses and suspicions, such as the one that would have the prime minister scared of possible spies.
What do you know and what do you think?
Charles White
Dear Carlo,
as you report, last week the left-wing press raised this issue: the Prime Minister had requested a cut in the police personnel operating inside Palazzo Chigi, there was also talk of layoffs, relocations, transfers, due to the presence of spies.
This was a colossal hoax that progressives exploited to discredit Giorgia Meloni and make her appear to be something she is not: a person who has always shown respect and support for the police force but who in reality mistreats police officers, whom she doesn’t even trust.
False, as the Prime Minister’s staff and police representatives have explained.
So – you ask – what happened?
First of all, don’t be surprised that the left, increasingly desperate in the face of the growth of consensus and trust in Meloni by Italians, despite the fact that everything is being done to erode the credibility of the leader of the majority, has adopted an increasingly unscrupulous conduct in the construction of news that do not correspond at all to the truth and that are not inspired by the truth even a little. When opponents have nothing to complain about, they invent. Let’s accept it. Let’s resign ourselves. And let’s approach what we read in the newspapers with the necessary caution, especially where the facts narrated are exposed in a non-explicit, vague, conditional manner. The time of journalism is the present tense, not the conditional. Let’s remember that.
Coming back to us, dear Carlo, it is true that, on the initiative of the Prime Minister, some changes have been made regarding the role of the four agents who until yesterday and also in past legislatures had the task, far from up to the values of the uniform, of acting as elevator operators.
But what the hell kind of job is an elevator operator? I mean, are there any kids who dream or have ever dreamed of being elevator operators as adults? I doubt it.
Can a civil servant be reduced to being the chaperone for those who take the elevator from one floor to another?
It is a shame, in my opinion, that police officers have to act as elevator ushers when citizens need them elsewhere, to see them, to perceive the presence of the State not simply inside the buildings but outside.
Meloni is a pragmatic woman. I must admit that her practical spirit, always oriented towards finding the most useful, most effective, therefore most intelligent and least costly solution, is the element that I most appreciate, indeed admire, about her and her way of doing politics, that is, of dealing with public affairs.
I imagine our Giorgia at that moment, or rather the umpteenth time she got on that elevator, accompanied by men and women in uniform, and, after having thought about it every single day with an almost unconscious sense of annoyance and disturbance, not fully brought to the surface and highlighted, that it wasn’t right that those officers were there at her service, that is, to keep her company in the elevator, and that it wasn’t decorous and dignified for them to be reduced to acting as elevator operators, she resolutely said to herself: “Guys, this story here has to end”. And she changed things, not to protect herself from spies, as they say on the left, but rather to protect the role of our police officers as well as all those who have placed themselves at the service of the citizens and the Italian State. You don’t take a police competition to be reduced to acting as an elevator operator. There’s no need for it.
Giorgia arrived at Palazzo Chigi on her own two feet and without assistance, and in the same way she manages to get from the entrance of Palazzo Chigi to her room without needing four elevator operators.
We are certain that along the tortuous path he will do very well as always.