The Dagospia website fires buckshot every other day at Giorgia Meloni, assuring that her government is on its last legs, that it’s leaking from all sides, that Europe snubs her and that she doesn’t count for anything in the EU. Either this is true, and then Il Giornale feeds its readers lies, or Dagospia says nonsense and has some personal problem with the prime minister.
Best regards.
Piero Casati
Dear Piero,
I have also read comments in various newspapers that would like the Meloni government to be dying and I have also heard colleagues and commentators claim that the majority forces are ready to divorce. These are more than anything else the hopes cultivated by those who sign such articles and the daring fantasies represented by self-styled experts in hot air, whose daily activity, moreover paid, is to shoot nonsense. The truth is that this government is strong and the majority is united, although there have been, and will be, dissonant, incompatible positions, in sharp contrast with each other on this or that issue. Which is part of the democratic game, of comparison, of pluralism. You don’t necessarily have to be identical to stay together or converge on everything. What really matters is the sharing of essential values, the indispensable ones, which translate into objectives to pursue together, into programs, into proposals. Each party of the majority has its own electorate of reference to which it remains faithful and its own history. Tajani and Salvini have been bickering lately, Forza Italia has supported von der Leyen, Fratelli d’Italia and Lega, on the other hand, have not given their confidence, not embracing the program with which Ursula presented herself in Parliament to ask for the vote of the MEPs. Some have taken it badly. But this divergence does not compromise the communion of intent and principles of the coalition. It would be truly childish to believe otherwise, hoping for a separation of the center-right parties and a fall of the government, which received confirmation at the last elections, the European ones, of enjoying the full confidence of the Italians. Something that has further benefited her health.
There are many things said and I even find some reconstructions comical. There are, for example, those who believe that Forza Italia would like to ally itself with the Democratic Party. Therefore, aiming for a government crisis, aiming for early elections, and then forming a sort of alliance that would only produce a significant loss of consensus for both FI and the PD. Who the hell could ever conceive of such bullshit? Even Tajani, who is not that brilliant, would never make a mistake of this kind. And you will observe that Forza Italia has already recently governed with the Democrats, they were together in the Draghi government. You are right. But, in that case, it was the reference to a state of grave necessity, namely that of countering the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, that justified an unnatural partnership. I specify: Giorgia Meloni did well to refuse any collusion.
In short, dear Piero, I reassure you: we at il Giornale do not write or peddle lies.
Behind-the-scenes writers have always existed in journalism, but now they are the bosses in newspapers, which dedicate too much space to their boring and useless lucubrations, it’s their season, maybe it’s also for this reason that newspapers are losing readers. Resign yourself. You will still read cooked and raw things. Keep in mind that sometimes editorialists write by connecting to the gut and not to the brain. Bile is poured out on the page.