The most convinced bipartisan applause is for Matteo Renzi, who cites Fabrizio De André: “In seeing this man who dies, mother I feel pain, mother I learned love”. For the rest, the commemoration of Pope Francis in Parliament is also an opportunity to measure the fractures of politics.
With Giorgia Meloni who puts his hand on his face at the end of Elly Schlein’s speech, according to which the dead Pontiff “does not deserve the hypocrisy” of those who “deport the migrants”. “Hypocrisy” is the word that Giuseppe Conte also uses, to liquidate “the vaniloqui” of those who “ignored their warning against the words of hatred and the logic of war”.
In teachings and gratitude, on the other hand, the recurring concepts in the premier’s speech, a concentrate of personal memories and public moments lived alongside Bergoglio, a Pope who “broke the patterns” and “entered the hearts of people”.
Senators and deputies are gathered in Montecitorio, in a solemn moment, an hour and a half stuck between the vote of confidence on the Bollette decree and the discussion on the PA decree in the transatlantic not all respect the sobriety requested in the five days of national mourning. “You only miss you at the Conclave”, the message that accompanies the selfie sent to a colleague absent from three amused parliamentarians. Then everyone in the classroom.
The president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana defines Pope Francis “Shepherd among the people”, remarking the “profound emptiness” that leaves “for Catholics and the entire international community”.
“We loved and admired him for the tireless strength and energy with which he fought for justice, peace and fraternity between peoples and nations”, underlines the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, before the minute of silence that evolves in a standing ovation with prolonged applause.
The first distances are measured in the interventions of the parliamentary groups. The dem applaud both Galeazzo Bignami (Fdi), who recalls how “the Pope is not of a part, does not follow political patterns”, and Francesco “has always turned to his people, without escaping the confrontation with those who had different opinions”; Both Simonetta Matone (Lega), for which it is “very difficult to trace a memory” of this pontiff, “unsettling, unpredictable, away from the parties more than any other of the past, but political, continuous punglia of the parties”.
From the Democratic Party, no applause to Maurizio Gasparri (FI), who stigmatizes “the many hypocrisies of those who always mention it and have never followed the path of faith”. A direct response to the speeches marked shortly before by Schlein and Conte.
That of the secretary of the Democratic Party is the most political intervention. The Pope, he says, “does not deserve the hypocrisy of those who have never listened to his appeals and today tries to bury his powerful message in rhetoric, of those who deport migrants, remove the money from the poor, deny the climatic emergency and deny care to those who cannot afford them”.
The parliamentarians on the center -right benches, from which some weak applause for the M5S leader starts. Conte remembers Bergoglio’s “courage” on Gaza, but also the months of the pandemic and “his disruptive message: ‘Nobody is saved by himself”. The ending is for Meloni. Standing between the two vice -premier, Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, starts from personal memories, of “a great man and a great pontiff”, who “knew how to be determined, but when you talked with him there were no barriers”.
The “most assiduous” advice, as well as “the last”, was “never loses the sense of humor”, says the premier, reiterating the “gratitude, mine, of the government and Italy” for the historic participation of the Pope in the G7. On that occasion, he recalls, he said that “politics serves” and is great “in difficult moments, it is operated on the basis of great principles, thinking of the common good in the long term ‘”.
“Diplomacy is an exercise of humility”, another of the teachings printed in the memory of Meloni, who ensures that he lives as “warning to responsibility” I Francesco to Peace’s appeals, launched “even when he knew that some could not understand, or misrepresent and exploit”. The challenge, is his conclusion, “is to be up to paris for Bergoglio’s lessons, with the belief that” he will continue to smile and guide us “.
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