we wounded community, but ahead on the path indicated by Berlusconi-Corriere.it

The news reached him at night in Washington. That phone call that Antonio Tajani never wanted to receive woke him up with a start. And it took him hours to make up his mind, between pain and numbness. Today Forza Italia is a community that is affected, wounded, but has a total mission: to unite in relaunching the message of our leader, to continue with conviction on the path that Silvio Berlusconi has shown us. the first message from the coordinator of Forza Italiafaithful collaborator of the former prime minister since the founding of Forza Italia after having also been one of his journalists, a friend, in the shadows when it was necessary, to act as deputy when needed, to behave like a soldier, as he always says, for the good of the party .

From the cemetery of Arlington, a place – underlines the foreign minister – which sums up the human and political journey of Silvio Berlusconi, a place where the value of freedom is witnessed. Tajani recalls the words that Berlusconi pronounced in front of the American Congress, in one of many of his words to his friend George Bush, and announces his early return to Italy but I do so by repeating the political message that Silvio Berlusconi would have and has always relaunched: we will do in the Forza Italia community what he taught: to fight for the good of Italy, with the tools of politics, but always choosing freedom and love for the Italian people. We will do it with strength, with conviction. On this day of profound pain, I say that we will also do it with the energy and joy that our leader has transmitted to me since the birth of Forza Italia, which he gave me the honor of founding together with him. His political and human project will continue to inspire and guide us, to indicate the path to achieving the goals that Silvio Berlusconi has always wanted for the good of Italy.

The journey begins only now, almost in the dark, because Silvio Berlusconi has already decided nothing for his succession. Only now will it be understood whether unified management will be possible, whether the takeover of the party will start, whether the hitherto solid axis between the government wing and the one headed by Marta Fascina will hold, whether Ronzulli and his men will try to regain the lost space, whether the FdI and Lega allies will try hostile moves. What the blue leader certainly would not have wanted to see his political community torn apart. And it will be up to Tajani first to try to prevent it.

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