There is no government without the moderate right: Berlusconi warns the allies

The election results led Silvio Berlusconi and his party at 8.1 per cent, once again consecrating him in the register of the not defeated. This is a better finish than that of the Third pole – now fourth – led by Carlo Calenda (who stops at 7.8 per cent), as well as a competitive outcome even against Salvini’s League, crushed below 9 per cent . Now Forza Italia has the tools to be a determining force, for the choices of the next executive, but also for the birth of the government itself: “Allow me to say that if you really thought that there was a risk of populist tendencies, the government would not would not even start, indeed we would not even be allied with the other two parties of our coalition “, declared Berlusconi in an interview with Courier.

And speaking of golden shares in the Senate, of decision-making and discriminating power, means affirming an undeniable reality: “Of course we have it” confirms Cav.it’s still: “[Forza Italia, ndr.] it will have the weight of a political force that is numerically and politically decisive “. Then he adds:” Obviously the international position of the country is a question of fundamental importance for us. “We return to the question of international relations, in the wake of Atlanticism, of Europeanism and the danger that the next center-right government cannot be said clearly in favor of the second. Just think of all the congratulatory messages sent by the nationalist leaders of Europe to understand the risk that Meloni-led Europeanism could be configured as bulwark for national interests rather than for the enhancement of a European community.

On the League, Berlusconi points out the same distance that there could be with respect to an excessively sovereign drift of the Brothers of Italy, as if to say: “We are the moderates”; and he does so by stressing that probably the disappointing result of the Carroccio could have been given by the fact that “perhaps, unlike ours, not all the electorate of the League has appreciated the assumption of responsibility by the Draghi government”. Berlusconi moves on this bordernoting the difference both towards the probable future Italian prime minister, and towards Matteo Salvini.

But there is another populist leader: Giuseppe Conte, who with the result of 15 percent is another winner among the losers, and Cav. he is well aware of this: “Conte was undoubtedly skilled and knows how to speak to his people […] The 5-star Movement interprets a real unease that exists in the country “.