University Rector’s Controversial Decision on National Mourning for Berlusconi

Firefight a On Tuesday, the talc show hosted by Giovanni Floris on La7. Protagonist the rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, Tomaso Montanari. As is known, the head of the Tuscan university did not agree to hold the flags at half-mast for the national mourning dedicated to Silvio Berlusconi. Also on this occasion Montanari tried to distinguish himself, but in the wrong way.

And so Di Martedì talks about this choice. Mauro Mazza goes on the attack: “This is a petty choice, it must be said absolutely”. Very heavy words that heated up the studio. At this point Montanari himself intervened by telephone and with a blitz during the episode reiterated his choice: “Hello? Here, good evening, I would like to say one thing: the university is autonomous and therefore we have decided in this way”. Mazza presses him: “Professor, it’s up to you or the university to decide”. He replies: “I am the head of this university and therefore I made the decision”. Mazza freezes him: “Well, then say that you have decided, remove the ‘we'”. But it is Massimo Magliaro, former deputy director of Tg1, to close the games with a word shouted in the studio that is difficult not to be shared: “Shame!, shame!”. Nothing to add except that Montanari has missed yet another opportunity to remain silent.