It is a violent clash between Giorgia Meloni and Enrico Letta, with the premier in pectore asking for immediate apologies and the dem leader accusing the majority of having “started the legislature with an incendiary logic” for the two appointments at the top of Parliament and sinks: “it is not the majority that tells the opposition what to say and how to say it”. It all begins with a 5-pointed star of the BR and an inscription against the new president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, which appeared in the night in front of the Roman headquarters of Fdi della Garbatella. Investigate the Police, five National Youth militants work to clean up the shutter, and Giorgia Meloni thunders against the “various politicians who have decided to make La Russa a target, as a person and for his ideas, rekindling a climate of hatred, already well fed during an electoral campaign, built on the demonization of the political opponent. A clear reference to dramatic years that we do not want to relive. Our commitment will be to unite the nation, not to divide it as someone is trying to do “. In a few moments full screens of comments of solidarity with la Russa flood the computers, the entire majority rises up and asks the left to condemn the threats and make mea culpa for having launched “phantom alarms on the return of fascism”, with no respect for the election of La Russa and Fontana to the Chamber and the Senate, second and third positions of the State. The risk of someone passing from words to deeds agitates.
“I hope that the sense of responsibility of politics prevails over ideological hatred, because Italy and the Italians must go back to running together”, therefore urges the candidate in pectore Meloni. Aware that the appeal to her responsibility can be good for something else too, in the hours of frost with Silvio Berlusconi – whose silence on the threats to La Russa stands out – on the formation of the government. But the secretary dem Enrico Letta from Berlin, at the congress of European socialists, waits hours to respond and throws more fuel on the fire: “The beginning of this legislature is the worst that could have been. The legislature begins with an incendiary logic on the part of who has won the elections. Who has won, instead of reconciling the country, is dividing it. But whoever sows the wind can only gather storm. I invite you to consider that this method is really wrong. It breaks every possibility even of a relationship between the majority and opposition, which is a relationship in the interest of the country. These are choices that make the majority shift even further to the right “. Letta also says that “with the appointments, concerns are confirmed in Europe”, that “the majority are at war and unable to govern”. Too much for Giorgia Meloni, who demands an immediate apology: “The words spoken by the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta on the sidelines of the European Socialists’ Congress in Berlin are very serious. Affirm abroad that the election of the presidents of the two branches of the Italian Parliament is justified from a self-styled ‘perverse logic’ and ‘incendiary’ and that the choice of Italian parliamentarians confirms ‘the worst concerns around Europe’ is scandalous and damages Italy, its highest institutions and its credibility international. Letta apologizes immediately. ”
Meanwhile, news also arrives of a billboard at the Colosseum against the President of Palazzo Madama, with his name written upside down. In the meantime they had lined up with La Russa IV and Action since morning. The first demonstration of dem support “to the vile act to be strongly condemned” arrives around 4 pm, from the group leaders Serracchiani and Malpezzi, while from Berlin Letta cannonades against the choices of the majority, and then tweets in the late afternoon his personal solidarity of the dem in La Russian. Meanwhile, the leader of the League Matteo Salvini – convinced that “harmony will soon return between Giorgia and Silvio” – attacked the left which “does not resign and violently attacks the second and third positions of the state, just democratically elected”. “The country needs union and not divisive and hateful messages and actions”, the president of the Fontana Chamber says in the evening before Ignazio La Russa’s definitive words of thanks: “I want to reassure everyone that a written handwritten unknown did not upset me in the least. In my life I remember much worse writings about me and my political side. Again I would have preferred, if it was up to me, to ignore who throws the stone and hides his hand, who thinks that the threat or insult can replace confrontation. Or worse who would like to revive years of violence and terrorism condemned by history “.
Letta, Borrell, Scholz and the leaders of the Pse sing ‘Bella ciao’
