Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Renzi in Atreju
When in September Meloni announced the cancellation of the party party Atreju, for the second consecutive year, after the forced break due to covid in 2020, someone from the party had quietly pointed out how this decision could represent a sign of weakness. But the leader of Fdi, according to the well-informed, had perhaps already planned a big party to be held around Christmas, after the administrative elections and a few weeks before the most important electoral appointment, that of the election of the new president of the Republic.
The result was that for a week the party of Atreju 2021, born as a party for the young people of the National Alliance in 1998, of which Giorgia was the leader, and then became the party of the new party when political activity resumed in September, has turned into a sort of navel of the world of Italian politics. If, in fact, until a few years ago the party was all in all marginal due to its specific weight within Italian politics, this year, thanks also to the personal success of Meloni and her party in the polls, the fdi meeting has gathered all the elite of the Italian political and institutional world.
Many have defined the event in recent days in Piazza del Risorgimento in Rome, even as a sort of third chamber, precisely because of the presence of all the majority and opposition leaders, ministers and foreign guests of international importance. All the protagonists of what promises to be the Korall challenge of the politics of the beginning of the year, Matteo Renzi, Giuseppe Conte, Matteo Salvini, Silvio Berlusconi, Enrico Letta, Antonio Tajani, Luigi Di Maio, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Marta Cartabia, welcomed Meloni’s invitation with pleasure and without hesitation.
What until a few months ago was considered a bit like the ugly duckling, who dared to oppose the government of the best led by Mario Draghi, is now being re-evaluated as a serious and responsible political force, whose leader, according to some politicians, such as Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, demonstrates greater reliability than other coalition colleagues, who are now majority allies. That Meloni has now become one of the most important and important personalities in Italian politics seems to be an incontrovertible fact, recognized not only at the national level, but also by the press and authorities of international importance, which is very rare for the politicians of our country. .
The party of Atreju it unequivocally consolidates its stature as a leader and places it in a position of absolute importance in the months to come. Enrico Letta, the secretary of the pd, with his speech opened the possibility of reaching a shared agreement also with fdi for the choice of the next president of the republic. It will certainly be said that both Letta and Conte and the minister of justice Cartabia, much applauded at the fdi Kermesse, were driven above all by personalistic and utilitarian reasons linked precisely to the choice of the next president of the republic, a real crossroads of politics.
The next election of the tenant of the Quirinale must, in fact, inevitably pass also by the vote of the center-right. There Melons therefore represents an interlocutor with whom one must still deal, as wished by the secretary of the Democratic Party, who denied a face-to-face meeting with Meloni, even if many party leaders present have quietly confirmed this. But certainly the role of solitary opposition, a difficult choice and little shared by many exponents of the center-right, now offers Meloni an indisputable advantage over the parties that formed the majority that supports Mario Draghi’s government.
The same Enrico Letta he reiterated the difficulties of this majority and the impossibility of repeating such an experience. But Letta’s openings did not seem just a facade, but underlined the need to return to a healthy contrast between center-right and center-left, dismantling the idea of some of its leaders to opt for a proportional electoral system. Whoever wins governs and whoever loses is in opposition, “because it is not compulsory that the Democratic Party must necessarily be in government”. Music for the ears of the president of the Brothers of Italy.
The presence of Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Renzi they also give that legitimacy to Meloni’s party, which in the pre-electoral period once again had to deal with the harsh accusations, launched by journalistic inquiries, of closeness and mingling with neo-fascist and nostalgic ideas and groups of the twenty years. The absolutely respectful and open attitude to confrontation even with those who have totally different ideas such as the leaders of opposing parties, on the part of the militants and the public, flocked in large numbers, is perhaps the definitive proof that the accusations of closeness to totalitarian and fascist ideas appear mostly instrumental and out of place.
On the other hand, the best response to these criticisms is manifested in behavior rather than in words. The party of Atreju perhaps also had the merit of representing the passing with full marks of the umpteenth maturity exam, to which the party has been subjected since its inception, to have that license of democracy, that someone perhaps for ideology or mere interest of part , would aspire not to grant him. Now Giorgia Meloni from the stage of Atreju sends a message to the sailors that it is that the future of Italian politics in the coming months must necessarily go through Via della Scrofa as well.
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