Donzelli on the stand: Forza Italia’s annoyance for the Melonian line

To offer her an apology, they don’t even think about it. “And yes that would be the best way to end it here”, she whispers in the League. Apologies, they, if anything, demand them. To the most refractory to obedience, namely those of Forza Italia, they even sent final dispatches: “Stop stabbing us in the back”. And maybe that’s why some of the patriots had suggested the solution: “Let’s give it to Giorgio Mulè, the presidency of the Grand Jury of Honor, so that for fifteen days he will be forced to remain silent”. Not at all. The scalp, it is claimed. And not on a whim of John Donzellinor out of Andrea Delmastro’s lust: it must certainly be out of boundless and powerful love for the country that the leaders of FdI have asked for the intercession of Lorenzo Fontana, who would gladly do without all this mischief, so that the presidency of the Gran Jury of Honor – this tribunal of parliamentary situationism which will at best be able to establish whether the honor of the three deputies of the Democratic Party mascariati in the Chamber by Giorgia Meloni’s loyalist has really been harmed – was assigned to the Sergio Costa grill.

“Why Mulè, with his interviews, has shown that he is not a third party, so we would be ready to ask for his recusal”, argued the notables of the Flame. Not without first taking care, however, to also contact the other three jurors of the court with a majority share: that no one plays jokes. On the other hand, the deputies of the center-right saw the line imposed by an FdI minister, to whom they had dared to ask how Delmastro could not be resigned, if Minister Nordio had clarified that the Dap documents were not disclosed: “Easy, none of us asks for your resignation, and Delmastro doesn’t give it”. A bit like the Marchese del Grillo who explained to Aronne Piperno the procedure with which he did not intend to pay him for the work done: “I don’t hunt the deaf, and you don’t catch them”. And when they grumbled, the minister insisted: “Rather, if you don’t silence those who attack us, then don’t come and ask us for amendments on the Milleproroghe”. Which in short Parliament wants peace and hardworking calm: and it is better for everyone to give it to them with love than with force.

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• Valerio Valentini

• Born in L’Aquila, in 1991. Grew up in Collemare, up there in the Apennines. Classical high school diploma, degree in Modern Literature at the University of Trento. Al Foglio since 2017. I wrote a book, “Gli 80 di Camporammaglia”, published by Laterza, with which I won the Campiello Opera Prima award in 2018. I like good books and good cinema. And cycling, everything, even the bad stuff.