Fini is back on TV, mea culpa on Pdl and promotes Giorgia
She does not need advice, but on rights and Covid warns the premier
ROME
(ANSA) – ROME, OCTOBER 30 – Ten years since the last time on TV. Nine from farewell to the important scenes of Italian politics. Fault, also and above all, of the very heavy electoral debacle of Futuro e Libertà, his post-PDL political creature that at the polls in 2013 relegated him to a humiliating 0.47% of consensus. But Gianfranco Fini, today a guest of Lucia Annunziata, does not appear to be a retiree of politics, even if in politics – he beats – he will never return to being an active part. And he dispenses advice, suggestions. Even if, he points out, the new premier Giorgia Meloni “does not need to be inspired”. She voted for it, she confirms. In case, she claims with a touch of pride, “I can say that there were those who opened a route” – like that of the Fiuggi turning point – “and then it was the turn of others, the younger ones, to follow it”. A road that Meloni, with Fratelli d’Italia, has done all uphill, from 1.9% in 2013 to almost 30% in these days. Meloni and Ignazio La Russa? “They were right and I was wrong”, admits Fini, recalling that the current premier and the president of the Senate “did not follow me when I was ousted from the PDL, giving life to the house of the right: I did not believe it. I said: but where are they going? “.
He is not even tender with himself for the choice to join the People of Freedom: “an unforgivable mistake. A huge mistake that I do not forgive myself” he confides to the Annunziata. Fini is a river in flood. And the anecdotes are intertwined: from the meeting of the last post-communist secretary (D’Alema) with him, the last post-fascist, at the time of the Bicameral; from the relaxing words of Violante, President of the Chamber in 1996, who wanted to make the Liberation a unitary moment; until the very confidential agreement with which Veltroni agreed in ’99 to take Ciampi up to the Quirinale. But Fini does not refuse to comment on the news of the day as well. And that precisely on fascism and anti-fascism created a controversy for the words of Ignazio La Russa on April 25: “The title (of the Press, ed) is forced”, the former leader of AN immediately explains.
“La Russa did not say ‘I am not celebrating this April 25th’ but replies ‘it depends, of course I will not go to the parades’ because, I heard him again this morning, he would risk finding himself in the company of those young men who threatened him in the name of anti-fascism of death”. Not only. “The Italian left – he warns – cannot turn on the anti-fascism switch in an instrumental way” because if they ask us “the recognition of anti-fascism as a value, the answer can only be yes, we did it, in Fiuggi” . And Meloni did not dissociate, she remembers. Then a few, but clear, tips of advice: the first on the left.
“It is always basically gray, I hope Enrico Letta does not take offense. He would need a little verve, a little soul, a flag to raise that is not democracy that is everyone’s flag. Come back to inflame hearts”. The second to Berlusconi that she also “has lost the scepter”, who “is no longer the dominus”, but who did it for the benefit of “a woman who since she was a young girl has chewed bread and politics”. And he, he assures, “is not irresponsible” and his ministers “give ample guarantee of continuity in government action”. Finally, Meloni, who has chosen Eugenia Roccella as minister among other things, says that we must “go slowly” because “civil rights are an important and delicate matter. Let Parliament deal with it”. And on anti-Covid masks, the new prime minister should follow science “and leave them mandatory in hospitals”.
Source: Ansa
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