The court and the Castle, so the Cav. ruled in chaos

Fantasies, counterfeits of reality, ceremonies that had nothing to do with party secretariats and the home as a place of exercise of power: “Jokes are not good at Palazzo Chigi”. Berlusconi’s gigantic anomaly

Follow Silvio Berlusconi as a parliamentary reporter for Il Foglio, in the first decade of the 2000s, it also sometimes meant attending phone calls that were unbelievable. Council of Ministers, tragic situation, government in the balance, resignation around the corner. The director of the Foglio, Giuliano Ferrara, who picks up the telephone in his room and calls Palazzo Chigi in front of two young political journalists. “I’m looking for the president,” he said to the switchboard. However, the president was in the Council of Ministers, in fact. “You can’t,” they tell him. But the director is someone who imposes himself. So in the end they give him the president. A few words: “Don’t listen to Tremonti, don’t sign anything. He does not resign ”. Meanwhile the agencies pounded: “Dramatic Council of Ministers. Quarrel with Tremonti. Berlusconi leaves the room to receive a mysterious phone call from abroad”. But what foreign, were we of the Foglio: Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio 8/C. And so we often had information that no other newspaper had. They were the ones that he, the Knight, or rather the Cav gave us. Directly. First hand. Only that sometimes, indeed often times, it was not true information.