Cashmere blankets, karaoke (and Berlusconi crowns Meloni): what happened at Salvini’s party. The Democratic Party: “After Cutro, inhumane” – Corriere.it

«You see Matteo, these blankets are made of cashmere. They are splendid, we have chosen them with Marta. You see: you have to spread them like this on the bed, they are very hot … », explains Silvio Berlusconi to Matteo Salvini as he unwraps the gift for his 50th birthday. Soon after another package arrives: inside there are a series of dark shirts, sewn by hand by the Knight’s trusted tailor, who adds: «So stop wearing all those white shirts, this is an elegant garment». Then it was the turn of a series of signature paintings. It’s Friday night. The leader of the League, with a well-orchestrated trap, arrives at a luxurious estate in Uggiate-Trevano (near Lake Como) accompanied by his girlfriend Francesca Verdini, who had promised him a romantic tête-à-tête to celebrate away from everything and everyone. But when Salvini entered the restaurant hall, the lights suddenly turned on and he found himself in front of the center-right general staff, all his family and closest friends.

In the front row, together with her partner Andrea Giambruno and her daughter Ginevra, is Giorgia Meloni, That
after the tragedy of migrants in Cutro
and immediately after the summit with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu he took a plane to join the party to celebrate the ally’s half century. And during the evening Meloni and Salvini also performed in a karaoke, embracing and singing together “La canzone di Marinella” by Fabrizio De André, accompanied on the piano. Sarcastic, after listening to the audio, the comment of the minister Guido Crosetto: «Luckily we don’t have to sing to survive».
The singing performance is immortalized in a video posted on Instagram by journalist Nicola Porro: “About the government crisis”,
his comment in response to those who assume maretta in the executive.

The Northern League ministers are also sitting at the table with the premier and Salvini Giancarlo Giorgetti (who jokes waving a crutch because he is temporarily lame), Robert Calderoli and the Speaker of the House Lorenzo Fontana. Di Fontana is missing the Lombard governor Attilio, invited but stopped by personal commitments. Among the guests also the parliamentarian and private health entrepreneur Antonio Angelucciformer publisher of
The weather
And Freewhich according to the latest rumors, would have closed an agreement with the Berlusconi family for the purchase of 70 percent of The newspaper, the historic Milanese newspaper. And precisely in the final part of the video, Berlusconi and Angelucci are seen embracing each other, as if to seal the editorial handover.

Minimal menu: paccheri with white ragù and parsley emulsion, risotto with aromatic herbs and spinach and seared beef with vegetables. At a certain point Sabrina Ferilli also appears, accompanied by partner and manager Flavio Cattaneo. The League leader’s girlfriend also performs a wild karaoke with Patricia Lorrainecompanion of the director of Free
Alessandro Salusti. Smiling, he also turns among the tables Simonetta Fossombronimother of Francesca and wife of Denis Verdini, remained in Florence where he is serving house arrest. Here comes the key moment, the cake with a lot of writing: «Congratulations Matteo for your 30 years, for the other 20 the Cassation has decreed the prescription». Berlusconi takes the chair: «We are united, because we are very strong: we are changing Italy. Giorgia Meloni is invincible », he says, articulating the words.

The lights go out. And in Uggiate-Trevano comes the echo of the protest of the mayor dem Matteo Lepore: «On the day when the funerals of seven victims of the Cutro shipwreck were celebrated here in Bologna, the center-right meets in Como to celebrate Salvini’s 50th birthday. We buried some bodies, then I went home and saw the karaoke images of the premier and his deputy. I’m speechless.” While Simona Malpezzi and Debora Serracchiani, respectively leader of the Democratic Party of the Chamber and Senate, add: “They do not pay homage to the dead of Cutro and do karaoke: inhumanity and cynicism”.