Gianni Letta Silvi Berlusconi
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What if Silvio Berlusconi's most formidable competitor was one of his most faithful advisers?
Gianni Letta, journalist and several times undersecretary, at the age of 86 is still one of the most lucid minds in Italian politics, whom he loves to attend in a reserved but extraordinarily effective way.
As is well known, Berlusconi dreams of crowning his political career with the election as President of the Republic, a hypothesis that his detractors make their hair stand on end, but which is far from peregrine: accounts in hand, to the founder of Forza Italy missing just 23 votes. A trifle, in a game like that.
The Cav has been working on it for some time, with a conviction that has amazed even his friends, including Alessandro Sallusti, who revealed that at the beginning he considered it a mere utopia, only to change his mind, since mathematics is not an opinion. Berlusconi is really close, but in his project there is a weak point: his candidacy was made explicit with a strong anticipation and experience teaches that in this bizarre secular conclave whoever enters Pope leaves cardinal.
Once the leader of the center-right coalition and then slipped to the third force of the group, Berlusconi has recently made a comeback, partly because Forza Italia was the only party in the reassembly to bring home some victories in the last disastrous electoral round , but also because politics and ambitions cost Giorgia Meloni And Matteo Salvini they must necessarily rely on the economic means of the former Prime Minister.
If the other parties keep repeating that Berlusconi's candidacy is very prestigious, curiously it is from within Forza Italia that critical voices are raised, which is not very frequent. The forced ministers Mariastella Gelmini, Renato Brunetta And Mara Carfagna they represent the "governist" and centrist wing of the party, which does not take kindly to the relationship with the sovereign forces. Their point of reference is precisely Gianni Letta, who is precisely Berlusconi's historic advisor, as well as a good friend of Mario Draghi, with whom he has (excellent) daily relations.
Is exactly Read senior it could represent the point of collapse of Berlusconi's political ambitions, if his personal ones were to crash against a reality made up of many opponents of his candidacy. Climbing the Colle would be a resounding success, but placing your right arm there would certainly not be a defeat. Having only one plan, in such complex games, would be a mistake not worthy of old political foxes.
Such an outcome would also lock Draghi's leadership, which could easily go beyond 2023, allowing the center-right to interrupt the historical overwhelming power of the progressive forces in the choice of the Head of State.
But would it really be a debacle for the Democratic Party? Maybe a little less for the secretary Enrico Letta, his nephew, who converging on the candidate could limit the damage of an otherwise clear defeat. And the move would allow him to bless the climb to Colle dello Zio, who, it is rumored, would have supported his election to the Chamber, not remaining idle on the occasion of the recent supplementary Senese. Family affection or cold political calculation? The trial of intentions leaves the time it finds, but the result of this match could be decisive for the outcome of this exciting race at the Quirinale.
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