Back to podium of the worstthis time in third place, the losing pairing, Carlos Tavares And John Elkannundisputed authors of the Stellantis collapse. In fact, a September to be forgotten has just ended. Estimates revised downwards, a fall in the stock market of almost 15% but above all a more than alarming picture: since the beginning of the year the group has almost halved its capitalisation, sending around forty billion up in smoke (euros more, euros less). Behind these dramatic numbers, there is not just one sector, the automotive sector, which is in deep difficulty. But also, and above all, failed strategies and profoundly wrong business choices. One above all: having embraced, without having the adequate strength and technology, a green revolution imposed by the European Union in a market where Chinese competition is extremely ruthless. And to say that the Elkann family, from the columns of its newspapers, has long thundered (and still does) against the Meloni government, accusing it of leading the country into disarray. Well, the numbers of the Italian system tell of a healthy and growing country. Unfortunately we cannot do the same with Stellantis. Which says a lot about the Elkann’s ability to read the present to invest in the future.
In second place here it is again: Ilaria Salis. A constant presence in our column, even more than Aboubakar Soumahoro in his heyday, the Avs MEP returns to support illegality by praising (hear, hear!) the “good practice” of okkupations. Stuff to put your hands in your hair! But listen to what the champion of illegal construction has said in this round: “Housing squats represent the only real policy for the right to live that exists in this country”. Not happy, she then took it out on the judiciary and the police because, look at that, they consider the occupations “a crime to be severely punished” and the criminals who occupy the apartments of desperate poor people, who end up in the middle of a street, “a dangerous criminal association”. A true hymn to illegality, in defiance of honest citizens who, despite struggling, roll up their sleeves and pay their rent or mortgage every month. But what else could we expect from someone who has spread debts for over 90 thousand euros – debts that she has no intention of paying? Perhaps, but we say it quietly so as not to end up lynched by the left, she should not have been rewarded with a golden seat in Strasbourg.
In first place on the podium of the worst of the week is the former maître à penser of the chic left, the former champion of the LGBT cause, the former rapper influencer who spreads do-goodism on social media: Fedez. Hard times for Federico Lucia, once carried in the palm of his hand, together with his ex-wife Chiara Ferragni, by progressives always in search of foreign popes who carry forward causes that they are unable to win alone. The violent nights in the Milanese discos; the punitive expedition against Cristiano Iovino, aka “Jimmi gym”; the foul-mouthed and macho dissing with Tony Effe. But above all the common thread with the Curva Sud: those dangerous liaisons with the Rossoneri ultras. Well-known friendships, also because the Milanese rapper has never made a secret of it: from selfies on the yacht to the weekend in Paris, everything shared on social media.
What was not known, however, is that he did business with certain characters who were not exactly mirrored: ranging from the organization of concerts to the attempted blitz to take over the Old Fashion nightclub in Milan. There’s no denying it: a subject worthy of the left. Pd and his companions always choose their idols with the lantern.