Calenda’s running board. In silence, Pd, Forza Italia and Lega are climbing. Watch out for Sicily

In Lombardy he catches Northern League supporters, in Puglia he crunches Pd, in Calabria “there will be news soon”. But is it true that you are courting Paolo Barelli? “Barelli? Barelli who?”. The former leader of Forza Italia … “And who is it?”. It may be the braggart Carlo Calenda but he is a lovable braggart. On Friday he summoned the journalists to the Chamber for 10. In the editorial offices, the previous evening, it was decided to second a journalist without a doubt: “With Calenda you never know”. He has already won for this reason. Calenda is the Guadagnino of the 19th legislature, he is like the director of “Bones and All”. Silvio Berlusconi, if he could, would yell “gosh”. In the south, Fi is emptying him. In Sicily, for example, Giuseppe Castiglione (elected to the Chamber) kidnapped him. In recent days he met the former governor Raffaele Lombardo, but it is said that even Gianfranco Micciché, who has a liking for Matteo Renzi, would have hinted that the Third Pole “likes him very much”. In Palermo, Fabrizio Ferrandelli, already a candidate for the municipal elections, is in “Action”. You are rightly wondering: what did Calenda have to say? Hell! Very many. First of all, Ferrandelli had to be “officially” presented. When Calenda entered the Chamber, he was wearing a hunter’s Barbour and the usual Angelino was waiting for him. Calenda can never be understood without this figure. Think bravado. Think of Calenda. Now, close your eyes and think about shyness. You will have his spokesperson. His “Angeline”. The truth, it’s hard to say, is that Calenda could be right. Renzi? “We are the only allies who have not quarreled.” They also federated. More Europe cannot be excluded from returning: “Once the hatred has been disposed of, we await their decisions”. Calenda and the maneuver: “It is Salvini’s maneuver. The government is the Salvini government”. The impudent journalists who asked him: “But why doesn’t he mention Meloni’s name? Do you want to ally with her?” They were taken up like this: “For me Salvini is the metaphor! I don’t flirt with Meloni”. And in fact it is the disappointed ones of the other parties who flirt with him. Italia Viva, Forza Italia, Pd. By dint of arguing with everyone, he manages to keep everyone. (cc)

• Carmelo Caruso

• Carmelo Caruso, journalist in Palermo, Milan, Rome. He started at La Repubblica. Today he works at the Foglio