Gianluigi Paragone
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Gianluigi Paragone (Italexit): “Paolo Maddalena has been our candidate for some time. It is good that the former M5s colleagues also came up with this name ”. Berlusconi? “He didn’t contact me, he knew it would be useless effort”
Seven days after the first ballot for the renewal of the office of President of the Republic, the impasse continues to reign on both sides of the center right, anchored for now to the name of Silvio Berlusconi, both of center left, including the M5s, which rejects the sender as inadmissible and divisive the candidacy of the blue leader, but at the moment has not yet advanced – beyond the hypothesis Mattarella bis And Dragons – another dry solution or a shortlist of alternative quirinables.
On the other hand, the former grillini have the clearest ideas, mostly merged into Alternative there, compact onformer vice president emeritus of the Constitutional Court, Paolo Maddalena. A name that, in fact, had already advanced theformer senator M5s and founder of the Italexit party Gianluigi Paragone, and that somehow puts Arcore’s “squirrel operation” at risk. Affaritaliani.it spoke about it with Senator Paragone who immediately told our newspaper that he had not been contacted by Silvio.
No meeting, no phone calls. Confirmation?
Yes. And the reason is simple: he knew very well that it would be a useless effort. Our position is widely known.
Will Italexit write the name of Paolo Maddalena on the card on January 24?
This is the name I mentioned some time ago, he has been our candidate for a long time. It is a personality that unites the whole anti-Dragons front. I am not in the fray of the former M5s, but because Italexit is no longer comparable to movementism. Unlike the formation of Brugnaro, of the same M5s and of Alternativa there is, we are in fact the only political force that has become a party. Not in words, but recognized by the competent commission. Having said that, I am very happy that the former colleagues of the Movement have come up with the name of Magdalene, although they have arrived at it with a method that is not ours and that I have not shared.
In what sense?
They had to vote on several names, while Italexit always had only one name. Maddalena, in fact.
However Mario Draghi, whether it is Colle or Palazzo Chigi, remains the stone guest.
Wherever you put it, it’s a danger to me, it’s a political opponent and a cultural enemy. On the fourth, on the fifth, on the sixth ballot, for us the name remains Maddalena.
Did you have the opportunity to confront Alessandro DI Battista on the Quirinale?
I repeat that we are a new party. We do not need to ask someone for a blessing, nor do we need to be recognized. The square on Saturday in Milan is proof of this: we were there with a leader, a flag and a political proposal. Alessandro is a golden boy and whom I respect, but he is not in Parliament. And I don’t know who the parliamentarians close to him are. Point.
It is also true that without convergence with the other political forces, at least from the fourth ballot, there is no progress. Will your strategy change?
There is only one strategy: all people who care about the Constitution and public goods look to Paolo Maddalena.
Does it close to any other hypothesis that could possibly be put in place by the center-right, be it Casini, Moratti, Pera or Casellati?
The center-right, before presenting a name, must remove all vaccination obligations, green pass and super green pass, otherwise there is no dialogue for me. Meloni alone does not have the fingerprints on these measures, but she is still organic to the coalition and I cannot speak to people who are compressing freedoms. In order to clean up, the CDX must admit it was wrong and backtrack on the measures it supported. Only then and if at the same time the name of someone who has a profile equal to that of Paolo Maddalena were advanced, would I be willing to think about it from the fourth vote. But there is none of this on the horizon.
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