Meloni, loud voice and sarcastic whispers The show-rally in Aula-Corriere.it

The photos bouncing around the web tell of the physical effort, but cannot describe the tone of the voice. Now Giorgia Meloni raises the decibels to the breaking point, now she whispers and bends the treble up to sarcastic whispers. At times, the government’s bench of honor looks like a stage for a rally, from which the Prime Minister launches an attack by an opposition that hardly opposes it. Where’s Elly Schlein? In Brussels, a choice criticized (quietly) by many dem deputies. And Matteo Salvini, the alleged internal opponent? It seems he had no more important commitments on his agenda than the communications of the premier on the eve of the European Council, yet he vacated the seat of Montecitorio and only showed up in the Senate. While Giancarlo Giorgetti made himself known for having sat among the deputies and not at the benches of the government, as usually happens.

And to think that on Tuesday the leader of the right had set a table for three a Palazzo Chigi and had lunch with his deputies, Salvini and Tajani. A private summit, to tighten the bolts of the majority machine that has been struggling a bit in the gears for a few weeks. In the Chamber, the absence of Daniela Santanch is also noted, who will be in the Senate Chamber on July 5 to try to dispel the shadows raised on TV by Reports.

The space between the buvette and the government room is conquered by Patrizia Scurti, who Meloni my mistress dutifully called. They ask her if she is really happy to have gotten rid of the head of the press office, Mario Sechi, and the head of the special secretariat replies with a wide, silent smile. A few meters further on Antonio Tajani speaks for 40 minutes to the center of a small group of two dozen journalists and deputies, to essentially say that the government will not ratify the Mes, because the more you bow your head with the European institutions, the more they crush it . A dem deputy passes and makes fun of him: the FdI spokesman?. Meanwhile Giuseppe Conte takes a long coffee with Minister Adolfo Urso and complains loudly about the shameful treatment of the press.

Turquoise trouser suit, the premier takes the floor at 9, mentions San Giovanni Paul II and pricks the owls who predicted catastrophes, ignites roars on the right, listless protests on the left and while he pushes away the ratification of the Mes with the invention of the package approach, he relies on the sheets and glasses of water that Raffaele Fitto hands her . A voice from the Democratic Party tries to interrupt her. And she: I can’t hear you, just basic confusion. You brand the ECB’s recipe for curbing inflation as simplistic and elicit (only) bipartisan applause for the military abroad. She then sits down, stays glued to the counter, swallows Laura Boldrini’s attacks on migration policies without deigning to glance at her. And when it’s time to respond to minorities, she goes on the attack and doesn’t give anyone discounts. Mr Provenzano, are you telling me that the EU Commission decides how to treat you on the basis of political assessments? a very serious charge. Colleague Fratoianni, do we have to defend ourselves against children who die? No, by the traffickers who kill them. Honorable Boldrini, for charity of country! I take no lessons from those who went hand in hand with Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba. Ovations on the right, strangled roars on the left. And there is also some for the EU Commissioner for the Economy: The Italy-Libya Memorandum was stipulated by President Gentiloni, the dossier was followed up by Minister Minniti and today it is said that it is questionable to dialogue with these people. So some can do it and some can’t?.

The highlight of the show when the premier says she saw on tv the reference philosopher of the M5S De Rita. The 5 Stars scream and she corrects the slip: De Masi, I apologize. In short, you said “that it is better to live under a dictatorship than to die”. And here for the prime minister there is a massacre of centuries of history in which freedom and democracy were built with the sacrifice of those who were ready to sacrifice themselves to build these values, such as Falcone and Borsellino. The opposition arises because it has forgotten the heroes of the Resistance, the right peels its hands and Meloni can move to the Senate, where the tones will be much lower and the accents less sharp.

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