The division of high positions in parliament and in government causes the first friction between the parties of the conservative bloc led by the prime minister ‘in pectore’, Giorgia Meloni
Following the broad victory of the conservative bloc in the September 25 general election, the new legislature in Italy began this Thursday with the election of the new Senate President of Ignazio La Russa, one of the founders of Fratelli d’Italia ( FdI , Brothers of Italy), together with Giorgia Meloni, who is called to lead the new government in Rome. Before taking power, however, he will have to finalize negotiations over the distribution of the next Executive’s key positions with his partners, Matteo Salvini’s League and Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi’s party. It will not be an easy task.
That there is still a lot to clarify between the three political forces was apparent from the result that La Russa achieved in the Senate. He was elected thanks to the fact that he got some unexpected votes from the opposition, probably from the centrist bloc, as he did not get the support of 16 senators from Forza Italia, who chose to abstain as an element of pressure on Meloni in the negotiations to form a government.
Although the leaders of the three parties say from outside that there are no major differences between them, it is difficult for them to achieve a division of ministries. Most of them will be occupied by members of the FdI, who won 24% in the elections, but neither Salvini nor Berlusconi are resigned to the fact that their political forces, each holding 8%, will only have troops in the future cabinet. to be.
“Thank you to those who voted for me. And also for those who have not,” said La Russa sarcastically when the result of the motion was announced. This parliamentarian with a hunting vote is a veteran of Italian politics who was already Vice-President of the Senate in the previous legislature. One of the last times he had to chair a session, he had no qualms reading “La Gazzetta dello Sport,” the country’s leading sports newspaper, while the senators spoke.
Minister of Defense during the last government of Silvio Berlusconi (2008-2011), La Russa achieves the most important institutional position in Italy after that of the President of the Republic after having been a member of the neo-fascist MSI party during his youth, founded by the nostalgic Benito Mussolini after the Second World War.
It was striking to see him this Thursday give a bouquet of flowers to the life of Senator Liliana Segre, a non-year-old who survived the barbaric race laws of the ‘Duce’; all the more so with the new memory of the scene starring La Russa’s brother, Romano, who is a regional councilor in Lombardy and who recently gave the Nazi salute at a funeral. The new Senate president also makes no secret of his admiration for this historic period and has numerous figures representing Mussolini in his house. Meloni, who has tried throughout the campaign to obscure the neo-fascist origins of his formation, celebrated his election by defining him as a “patriot.”
After the three failed votes this Thursday, the proclamation of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies is expected next Friday, a position that could fall to a leader of the League.
Silvio Berlusconi returns to the Senate, where he was expelled in 2013 after being convicted of tax evasion. The leader of Forza Italia, one of the parties that is part of the conservative coalition along with Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy) and the League, is reluctant to withdraw from politics, although his 86 years pressing heavily and he had to be helped by some assistants to walk through the corridors of the Senate. At the start of the new legislature, Berlusconi starred in one of the images from the day before the discussion he had in class with the new Senate President, Ignazio La Russa, one of the heavyweights of FdI, the party of Giorgia Meloni .
The tycoon ended his conversation with La Russa with a “vaffanculo” recorded by television cameras. His reaction could be due to how difficult negotiations within the conservative bloc are proving to share the key positions of the next Executive. Berlusconi has been pushing for days for Licia Ronzulli, one of the leaders he most values in his party, to occupy a tough ministry, but it seems he has stumbled upon Meloni’s ‘no’. “It’s not right, because vetoes shouldn’t be put in place,” he noted when leaving the Senate.
Source: La Verdad
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