Conte sinks Meloni, but wants to sit at the reform table

In the Chamber, the show by the grillino leader, a fury that translated into fourteen minutes of attacks against the premier (complete with a slip of the tongue on the “Andreotti crime”). But he is ready to talk to the government in order to isolate Schlein

“Today you will say that I am the centre-left and not Elly, and tomorrow who knows. But I look at the trajectories of politics”. This is followed by a spiral movement of the forearm. Giuseppe Conte is voiceless – “I donated it to the superbonus exodates” – and is leaning against a railing in Montecitorio. He is satisfied. Even his kissing tuft has a moment of respite. In the Chamber, before lunch, the former prime minister performed a small show. Fourteen minutes of attacks on Giorgia Meloni. Defined in sequence: “Bronzeface”, “leaning patriot”, “slapped by reality”, “inadequate”, “one who has Orban as maître à penser”, head of “Brothers of Visegrad”. In his fury, Conte cites the “Andreotti crime” instead of Matteotti’s (ministers Nordio and Schillaci laugh). Meloni, here for the communications of the EU Council, is not someone you know how to hide. And so she snorts, fidgets, widens her eyes, gesticulates. The premier is not there and responds to provocations. He returns “the hypocrite” to the head of the M5s pointing him with a pen. He says it is not “true” that at the last European Council he obtained the same results on immigration as Conte brought home in 2018. And then before leaving – President Sergio Mattarella awaits him for a working lunch with the ministers – vents in Roman dialect. Translation of the lip: “Seee, let’s see what happens to er Pnrr, we’ll see it in the end”. Shortly before, the opponent had accused her of not bringing home the projects that Europe is asking of us. However, it is a moment to crystallize.