Silvio Berlusconi – Angela Merkel (Lapresse)
Berlusconi and those smiles of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy
Many readers will recall that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the then French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, they smiled, in a press conference, broadcast worldwide, when asked by a journalist. He had asked if they had been reassured by Silvio Berlusconi, at the European summit on 23 October 2011, in the midst of Italy’s dramatic financial crisis.
Sarkozy out, Merkel goodbye to the chancellery. Berlusconi instead …
Ten years later, Sarkozy, after being beaten in the presidential elections by the modest competitor, Francois Hollande, was sentenced to one year in prison without parole, for “illegal financing”.
Angela Merkel said goodbye to the chancellery, after 16 uninterrupted years at the helm of Germany, following the German elections of 26 September 2021.
On the pitch, at 85, he remains only the “victim” of those embarrassing smiles on TV, Silvio Berlusconi, which aspires to happen to Mattarella.
One wonders if the political longevity of the former Cav. is a positive element for democracy or a negative one, first of all for the center right, which has not selected a leader capable of inheriting the leadership of the alliance, the majority in the country.
Berlusconi and that prediction of Montanelli
In addition to taking revenge on former colleagues, the founder of Come on Italy has disproved the prediction that Indro Montanelli, in 2000, a year before his death, wrote in the former editor of “Il Giornale”, directed, for 20 years, by the historic, great signature of Corriere: “in my opinion, the Berlusconi – he wrote in Oggi – it’s like smallpox, a disease that can only be cured with a vaccine, that is, with an injection of smallpox. Fever comes and then recovery. I will not have the healing time to see it, you readers do… “.
Judging from the discussions, the controversies and above all the game, which the former Lombard premier is playing, the vaccines against Covid-19 have been identified, not the one against the Berlusconi…
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