October 16, 2024
While the discussion in the Chamber is mounting in view of the European Council tomorrow and Friday, on the Transatlantic, despite the usual, there is little movement and the air is distracted. The journalists go back and forth between a Mantovano who appears quickly and disappears even more quickly and a Conte who entrusts his considerations to a few reporters. An apparition comes to liven up the situation. «But what is Corsini doing here?» a reporter asks. The Rai executive parades among the burgundy sofas in black sneakers. He stops to have a chat with some colleagues then heads to the refreshment stand. There is a lot of curiosity and the question is obligatory: “What is Corsini doing here?”. In jargon it would be called “bait”, perhaps to try to strengthen a position that many define as at risk.
In the meantime, on the sofas of the Transatlantic there is another question going around from mouth to mouth: to vote for Fitto or not to vote for Fitto? This is the dilemma in the Democratic Party (because the allies M5S and Avs have clear ideas about not voting for it) which takes shape in two speeches, one in the Senate with Graziano Delrio and one in the Chamber with Elly Schlein. For Delrio there are no doubts “we will certainly support the von der Leyen Commission and therefore there is no such doubt: the Democrats will never vote against it, but they are also proud if Italy has a prestigious role”. While the secretary is more cautious: «It is useless for President Meloni to come and pat herself on the back on the portfolio offered to Fitto. We, who are not like you, will carefully evaluate the hearings of all the commissioners, including Fitto.” The Democratic Party is divided and it will be difficult to find a synthesis: the left of the party will not vote for the Italian commissioner, the “others” will. And to avoid that someone from the government could then accuse the Dems of being anti-Italians, Schlein “corrects” the version of the Prime Minister who, in the two houses of Parliament, recalled how at the time of Gentiloni’s election the ECR also voted in favour. «In the last legislature, upon the appointment of Paolo Gentiloni, when Raffaele Fitto, representing the Brothers of Italy, expressed himself in favor of the Italian candidate, then the Ecr group voted in his favor» recalled Meloni. “There are moments in which national interest must prevail over partisan interest and I sincerely hope that this moment is one of those, without distinction and without hesitation” underlined the Prime Minister.
A version that Schlein cannot let pass. «Don’t think, Meloni, of coming here to give lessons. Because you called a square against Gentiloni” European Commissioner. “It was your Dutch group leader who voted in favor, but you voted against, including Fitto and the entire European Commission,” declared Schlein as if to give the green light to those MEPs who are thinking of not giving the vote to Fitto.
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