“She was arrogant with us” – Corriere.it

When the door of the villa of Arcore closed and Giorgia Meloni left, Saturday afternoon, Berlusconi he barely held back his anger. Then she hissed an adjective that explains more than many other words how the meeting really went: Arrogant, was arrogant.

Until a few days ago, the greatest difficulty, within the majority, was manifested in the relationship between the premier in pectore and the Lega, primarily due to the type of government ambitions cultivated by Matteo Salvini. In these hours, however, the case broke out Licia Ronzullivery loyal to the Cavaliere with aspirations, also governmental, which diverge, and not a little, from the objectives of Giorgia Meloni.

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A small summary can help the reader to orient himself: Ronzulli, former nurse, former MEP, over the years has become a sort of political shadow of the Knight. Little moves in Arcore that she does not control. In many of her they recognize her political skills, in many of her they paint her with ease and with limitless aspirations. Friends and enemies. The problem that these dynamics have now also affected the figure of Antonio Tajani: considered naturally the future head of delegation of Forza Italia in the government, for some days now it is no longer certain that it will be able to achieve the goal.

But the most delicate issue concerns the caliber of the ministry that will be entrusted to Ronzulli. Berlusconi has so far mentioned two names, two fixed points of his requests: Tajani and Ronzulli. And consider the two nominations equal, while for Giorgia Meloni, on the other hand, there is a considerable distance between the former president of the European Parliament and the rest of the names that the Cavaliere has in mind. So much so that Tajani is still a candidate to go to Foreign Affairs, or to a first-tier ministry, while on the Ministry of Health, which the president wanted for Licia – they say within the party – there are no more margins, it has now been established that it will not go to us.

The picture just made, even if just sketched, also clarifies the reaction of the former prime minister during these hours. If Meloni had an arrogant attitude, we must add that Forza Italia remains decisiveIt is good that no one forgets it, because without us you are not going anywhere. Arguments that Berlusconi makes with his staff, noting that the ministers are not willing to back down, given that they are of the highest level.

The Knight adds that mine is not blackmail, but also true that the names that are considered untouchable are just two: Tajani and Ronzulli. On the other Italian exponents who will enter the government, things will become clearer when the president of FdI will have discovered her papers, indicating exactly which other positions she believes are available for the Azzurri. In the list that Berlusconi would have in mind so far the names of Anna Maria Bernini, Alessandro Cattaneo And Paolo Sist
orbut a lot will depend on how the thorniest affair is resolved and then on the really contestable positions in the executive.

In any case, at the moment what occurred after Meloni’s visit to Arcore, the second in a few days, a real short circuit. At such a level of tension that Ronzulli would have suggested to Berlusconi to ask for the post of Foreign Minister for himself, and not for Tajani, a hypothesis that can only be contemplated on an unrealistic level. As well as the threatening reaction that the Knight himself had in the face of Meloni’s rigidity: So, if you don’t come to meet us, we will ask for the Ministry of Economy or the Mise for us. Also in this case words and hypotheses dictated by a dialectic that temporarily went off track.

In short, the situation appears to be blocked. With Berlusconi ready to publicly say that there can be no vetoes or prejudices between allies and that all of him except a blackmail position, but the attitude of a decisive partner in the government structure. But if he has given her the arrogant about her, it seems that Meloni, during the visit to Arcore, has instead made it clear that she, about concepts and interpretations, does not accept blackmail. You want a high-profile government and skills and, according to the future premier, Ronzulli does not seem to fit into these criteria to obtain a weighty ministry.