on the left they don’t want him to graduate –

Alessandro Giuli will take the last university exam on Monday to obtain a degree in Philosophy. But on the left, as we know, everything causes controversy. The communist youth organization “Cambiare Rotta Roma” said it was ready to protest and take head-on the Minister of Culture’s decision to complete its course of studies. He communicated this via social media, with a post in which he announced that he had organized a gathering with the aim of “greeting” the former director of MAXXI “with the worst wishes for his final exam”. The appointment has been set for the day on which the minister will conclude his journey, at 9.00 am and at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rome La Sapienza. “For a new culture… we reject Giuli. We reject fascism and the culture of precarious employment”, we read on Instagram.

Save Opera, the association of maestro Alberto Veronesi, responded to the new communist recruits. “We learn that a phantom left-wing organization would like to present itself at the Sapienza University in Rome to challenge the final exam of the new Minister Alessandro Giuli at the same university. Well, we at Save Opera will go and support the new Minister, so that he can do his legitimate exam in peace and quiet,” we learn. “We always find ourselves faced with the same script: there is an organization that calls Giuli, Minister of a government democratically elected by the Italians, a fascist, and this phantom organization then has the beautiful democratic spirit of preventing a citizen from confronting to an examination commission. This would be enough to make it clear who the fascist is in this situation”, we read.

The left cries about fascism and the lack of freedom, but is the first to try to put a spanner in the works of a minister who only wants to complete his studies. A left, comments Veronesi, “which proclaims itself to be so anti-fascist, does not hesitate for a single moment to push away those inconvenient intellectuals who have dared to criticize the system, I know something about it myself, fired after thirty years from an opera festival because I dared to disagree. And Sangiuliano knows something about it, hit by a media tsunami coincidentally after touching on some privileges in the cinematographic field”. The one who raised the fuss in the previous hours was Nadia Urbinati, political scientist and columnist for Domani, who wrote on Facebook: “Why Giuli decide now to get a degree?”.