If you look at the applause,
Carlo Calenda
was the winner of the challenge between the leaders of the main political parties at
the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio
.
But success is not measured with the applausometer rather by looking at the purpose for which everyone showed up at the appointment: to convince the audience of industrialists gathered at Villa d'Este that they are the best choice for the country.
A challenge to the sound of jokes about the PNRR and the sanctions against Russia.
From
Giorgia Meloni
, the president of Fratelli d'Italia, a speech was expected to reassure the world of the economy and in fact in her speech she focused mainly on economic issues and international politics, explaining the nuances of her positions towards EU, where all states "defend their interests", so it is right that Italy too does so.
You say no to the budget variance, you propose to do immediately in Italy, without waiting for Europe, the unbundling of the cost of gas and electricity.
And she repeats that "
it cannot be heresy to say that the PNRR cannot be perfected: it is foreseen in the norm
".
Enrico Letta
, who has been at home in Cernobbio since 1999, comes to say that the vote for the Democratic Party is "the only one" to prevent the "right-wing bloc" from being elected.
And that the Italian debt is "a problem at European level" and for Italy it is "better to have a government that is in Serie A with France, Germany, Spain" than one that goes "with Serie B Poland, Hungary".
Therefore, explains the Pd secretary, the center-left government is better for which the PNRR is "the North Star. We can discuss, but we say 'no' to renegotiations. If we were to confront Brussels we would lose money and prospects for the future" .
On the contrary, "
if the right were to win on 25 September evening, they would firstly toast Putin, then Orban and then Trump
".
Matteo Salvini
"armed" with slides returns to defend the flat tax,
proposes to move the Ministry of Innovation to Milan
and above all, after the controversy, explains his critical position on sanctions against Russia, which he considers deleterious for our economy.
"We go ahead with the punishments for the assault, but protecting our workers. Winning the elections by inheriting a country on its knees would not be a great satisfaction".
"So I hope that Brussels will implement the shield in the next few hours".
Point, that of the shield, which 'reunites' it with the rest of the center-right clearly opposed to loosening, with
Antonio Tajani
for whom sanctions are "inevitable" and Meloni according to whom "credibility" is at stake
However, it is Tajani who ensures that the center-right is united and Forza Italia will remain in the alliance.
"We are part of a coalition and we will remain in the center right".
In essence, he says no to possible enlarged governments after the vote.
Giuseppe Conte
, the only one in video connection from Naples and not in presence, defends the citizenship income that Meloni defines as "a failure" and which instead for him it would be "crazy to abolish" because social cohesion is at stake.
"To cancel it - he adds - is to make war on the poor".
He asks that inflation is not an excuse for "austerity policies" and considers the extra debt a weapon to "protect the social and business fabric".
But it is
Calenda
who turns the cards.
On the other hand, his declared mission is "to break the bipopulism that splits Italy", ready to make "the largest possible government".
Except to say that Forza Italia cannot stand as a "central and liberal force" because "it has discouraged Draghi", attacking the "transformation of Salvini" that was going "for the European Parliament with Putin's shirt".
He defines "confused who thinks that continuity with Draghi is one that has never voted for him" or Meloni.
Of course there is no danger of "fascism but of anarchy" and instead now we need a "common sense agenda", because "the energy and rate tsunamis" are coming.
Yes: a tsunami.
Who sees well, or at least strongly fears, the secretary of the CISL,
Luigi Sbarra
who in the evening, from Assisi and away from the spotlight of Cernobbio, warns: "The escalation of energy prices and foodstuffs risks frustrating economic growth . According to some projections,
nearly a million jobs are at risk
".
And this, he appeals to politics, "is a luxury that we cannot afford".
