Italy will never be "the weak link of the West".
And the Giorgia Meloni-led government
will be firmly Atlanticist.
Or it won't be
.
After 24 hours of reflection, the leader of the Brothers of Italy entrusts a message to a note that sounds like an either / or to the allies.
The rules of engagement must be clear,
the foreign policy position "unambiguous
".
And the goal is to give answers to citizens by following "the program" if on Friday, as the most likely scenario remains, Sergio Mattarella at the end of a day and a half of consultations will give you the job.
"On one thing I have been, I am, and I will always be clear - remarks the leader of Fdi - I intend to lead a government with a clear and unequivocal foreign policy line. Italy is fully entitled, and with its head held high, part of Europe. and the Atlantic Alliance. Anyone who does not agree with this cornerstone will not be able to be part of the government,
at the cost of not being a government "
.
Still resound, in the corridors of Montecitorio, the umpteenth utterances of Silvio Berlusconi in a further audio recorded at yesterday's meeting.
Words that continue to arouse reactions halfway
between amazement and irritation
in Fdi's house.
Contacts between the two do not appear: Meloni, say her, remained all day to work, away from notebooks and cameras and also from the questions about the team that are becoming more insistent among the allies.
Also because one of the fixed points of the scheme that you have in mind, that of Antonio Tajani for Foreign Affairs, enters the crosshairs of the opposition and begins to arouse some doubts even in the ranks of the center-right.
THE NOTE OF BERLUSCONI
"In 28 years of political life, the Atlantic choice, Europeanism, the constant reference to the West as a system of values and alliances between free and democratic countries have been the basis of my commitment as a political leader and a man of government. I explained to the United States Congress, friendship and gratitude towards that country are part of the values to which my father raised me since I was a boy.
Nobody, I stress nobody, can afford to question this ".
Thus the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi.
"My personal position and that of Forza Italia do not differ from that of the Italian government, the European Union, the Atlantic Alliance, neither on the Ukrainian crisis, nor on the other major issues of international politics. We have demonstrated this in dozens of official statements , of parliamentary acts, of votes in the Chambers ", added the leader of Forza Italia, in a note in which, he adds, he had to" reiterate the obvious "after the audio statements released.
"The fault is not of the media, obviously forced to spread this news, it is of those who use these
methods of dossier unworthy of a civilized country".
NEW AUDIO SHOCK
Silvio Berlusconi attacks Zelensky and returns to earthquake Italian politics: the
second episode of his audio recorded at the meeting with the blue deputies
causes an even more shocking effect than yesterday: in addition to talking about his friendship with Putin, including gifts and "sweet letters" ", this time the former prime minister violently criticized the Ukrainian President, accusing him of having tripled the attacks on the Donbass.
A second sound, broadcast by Lapresse, which
throws more fuel in an already fiery climate
and in a few minutes it deeply embarrasses the majority and unleashes the protest of the opposition.
Carlo Calenda and Giuseppe Conte explicitly believe that at this point no Forza Italia exponent can go to the Farnesina.
An absolute chaos that erupts close to the consultations at the Hill for the formation of the new government.
An attack, that of the Knight, which is spread on the day when the European Parliament declares as
the winner of the Sakharov Prize 2022,
"the Ukrainian people, represented by their president, elected leaders and their civil society".
An award that Tajani himself - who tomorrow will fly to Brussels from the EPP "to confirm pro-Atlanticism and support for Kiev" - is preparing to celebrate by extolling the Ukrainian people as "heroes who do not give up in the face of the horror of war" and whose deeds "in defense of democracy and freedom will forever be written in history".
However, Berlusconi's words are very clear and their political weight is aggravated by the convinced applause with which they are greeted by the Azzurri.
In a few minutes, the Knight flashes his version of the conflict: "In 2014, a peace agreement was signed in Minsk between Ukraine and the two newly formed republics of Donbass, with no one attacking the other. Ukraine - the former premier sinks - throws this treaty to the devil a year later and begins to attack the borders of the two republics which suffer casualties among the soldiers who arrive, I am told, to 5-6-7 thousand dead. Then
comes Zelensky who attacks on the two republics tripled
"At this point Berlusconi repeats the story he had already told at" Porta a Porta "before the vote, namely that the two" desperate "republics go to Moscow and ask him to be defended.
"Then he decides to invent a special operation: the troops had to enter Ukraine, reach Kiev in one week, overthrow the government in office and impose a government already chosen by the Ukrainian minority of good and common sense people, another week to go back ".
But at that point, he adds, Putin finds himself facing "an unforeseen and unpredictable situation
of resistance from the Ukrainians, who have begun to receive money and weapons from the West on the third day".
A very slippery passage in which it seems that Berlusconi somehow blames the Ukrainian military and Western aid for the continuation of the conflict.
"And the war,
READ: VERY SERIOUS WORDS
"Berlusconi's declarations are
very serious, incompatible with the positioning of Italy and Europe
. They are words that place our country out of the European and Western choices and that undermine the credibility of the possible new executive. Europe today must choose whether to stay with Putin or stay with Ukraine and the European Union. The Meloni government is being born under the sign of the worst ambiguity ".
Thus Enrico Letta, national secretary of the Democratic Party.