Silvio lost between Conte and Salvini

Once again the great narrator has spoken about the whole world, starting with the left who wanted, sought and pursued a dialogue with Silvio Berlusconi, also carrying on his shoulders the burden of a “salva-Mediaset” law, in conviction, questionable but granitic, that to help a government in trouble, a new climate must be created with the available opposition. However, it also happens to the best who are victims of their own tales, because the operation, assuming it is sustained, runs the risk of being particularly traumatic, at a party where many experience the break with Salvini as turkeys experience Christmas . And therefore they are ready to migrate to the Northern League breeding, especially to Palazzo Madama, so as not to celebrate the anniversary.

Assuming it holds, we said: at this time the Knight seems seriously willing to vote yes to the budget variance, on Thursday in Parliament, as was also announced in today’s vote on the preliminary rulings of constitutionality in the House, where Forza Italia has expressed itself in a different way than its allies. And of the behavior in the Budget Committee in the Chamber where he did not participate in the vote on the government’s report on the budget variation, while the League voted no and the Brothers of Italy abstained (let’s say the federation needs to run). However, precisely those who know him well, do not bet a penny that “vegetables last until the day after tomorrow”, because man is used to sudden changes, even sensational, a trend that over time has increased to the point of paroxysm. Professor Brunetta, whose moment line seems to have influenced the mood of the moment, remembers well when the then leader of the group appeared in front of the cameras to sanction the end of Letta’s government ten minutes before Berlusconi, in the Senate, confirm your confidence. .

This is also the case this time, in what remains of the fantastic world of Berlusconi, whose increasingly smaller dimensions have accentuated the logics of personal survival and shorter horizons. Silvio agrees, happy that we have talked a lot about him again, in Gelmini’s meetings with Gualtieri, he applauds the explanations of the volcanic Brunetta about the need to vote for this detour because this time there is a bet on autonomous numbers and VAT , can’t tell. not to Gianni Letta who, in this climate of dialogue with the Democratic Party, sees the possibility of influencing the appointments of Aisi and Aise. But he is also right, in the next phone call, even to those who claim otherwise. And it is that you cannot break with Salvini, right now that the Captain no longer talks about elections and seems to have calmed down. And then, in short, “you taught us, we cannot vote in the dark, first they have to show us the camel, then we pay money.” And who knows what he will say to Salvini, who will undoubtedly call him before the vote in a non-belligerent spirit to find a common position.

If the question were only political, and therefore of coins and camels, and if Berlusconi were what he is, the living incarnation of the center-right, the discussion would not even arise. Imagine if Berlusconi of the past were content to be the left crutch for four changes in VAT numbers and without entering the majority through the front door, with public recognition and the sound of fanfare. He would also experience the loss of parliamentarians as a concern, in fact he would worry about calling, cajoling, pampering the most restless one by one. The hypothesis is anything but strange, in fact it is almost a certainty, especially at Palazzo Madama. A gap with Salvini in Thursday’s vote would be experienced, by many, as the “free all” because there is a law of gravitation and 6 (the percentage of Forza Italia) cannot attract 40 (the percentage of the right), of done the opposite, as is happening in the territories. It’s also not comforting to think that a spare wheel is enough to give stability to the government car that has obvious engine and drivability problems.

The problem is that politics is not only logic, it is also a state of mind, movement of the soul, expectations. And if parliamentarians have the ambition (or the illusion) to think long times, Berlusconi thinks, physiologically, short times. And the short times are the gratification of the moment, in which no one calls him condemned, nor the most hostile press, and the enemies of the past treat him as a father of the country. They are inheritance and tight political deadlines. Basically, the “save-Mediaset” is just that: not a contribution of perspective, because in the long term Gasparri will continue to be rewritten after the judgment of the European Court, but in any case a provision that, during the next six months, allows to face Vivió from a position of strength. And the dialogue with the left allows, in a year and a half, to stay (at least try) in the great game of the head of state, which is played before 2023, the year in which, with 87 springs, who knows if the Knight will still want to be in the fight.

Who knows, this sum of weaknesses is called dialogue, between suitors and courted, which does not create a force or less an idea of ​​country. Once again the narrator has struck. But he risks swan song, because his party would not withstand the impact of a vote that breaks the center-right. To date, this is photography. Knowing the habits of the house, a day is an eternity. And it would not be surprising.