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“What anguish!”: the Italian cultural world in turmoil after the victory of Giorgia Meloni

2022-09-27T12:17:18.677Z


Between calls for resistance, stupefaction and humour, the artists of the peninsula, all generations combined, spoke about the coming to power of the right led by the Brothers of Italy party.


Giorgia Meloni at the head of the government, a very bitter victory for Italian artists.

Carried by the neofascist party Fratelli d'Italia, the conservative right is about to take the reins of the country and upset the cultural world.

On social networks, singers, actors, musicians of all generations have widely expressed their dismay, the day after the vote.

Read alsoGiorgia Meloni tilts Italy to the right

Democracy is like that.

Congratulations to those who will now have to lead the country in such a dramatic moment

, ”wrote actor and director Alessandro Gassmann, the son of the legendary Vittorio, on Twitter.

The actor did not fail to quote on the very day of the election a sentence from the anti-fascist and former President of the Republic Sandro Pertini: "

To the most perfect of dictatorships, I would always prefer the most imperfect of democracies

", accompanied by the comment:

“Good vote!”

Special guest of the show titled

Stefano!

staged at the Auditorium Parco della Musica "Ennio Morricone" in Rome, comedian and radio host Rosario Fiorello, was more ironic.

Today is a special day.

Did you go to vote?

Are you happy to change the destiny of this country?

I don't want to satirize, because it's not the right evening.

But something must be said.

Starting tomorrow, everything changes.

But haven't you heard all the promises they made to us?

From tomorrow there will be no more taxes.

From tomorrow, they will also pay your electricity bills...

”, relays the daily

La Repubblica

.

Another humorist, the irreverent Luciana Littizzetto, also went there with her humor: “

Undecided between change of season or change of country

”, she wrote on Instagram.

More seriously, the young composer and performer Francesca Michielin, winner of the

X Factor

telecrochet in 2011 and Italy's representative at Eurovision in 2016, quite simply and simply calls for resistance: “

Today the resistance begins.

Hello everyone

,” she posted on Twitter.

“What anguish”,

launches disenchanted the young Chiara Galiazzo, better known by her first name, another winner of the telecrochet in 2012.

Today is a sad day for my country

”, bid just as annoyed the leader Damiano David of the Maneskin group, controversial winner of Eurovision 2021, who spoke in English on Instagram.

In a more humorous vein, pianist composer and conductor Nicola Piovani has released a still from Nanni Moretti

Aprile

's film in which the hired actor on the left lights his first joint on the evening of March 28, 1994, at the announcement of Berlusconi's victory.

Sabrina Ferilli, the actress in particular of

La Grande Bellezza

signed Paolo Sorrentino, also uses irony to express her spite on Instagram.

The 58-year-old Roman actress, with a profile that boasts nearly a million followers, shared one of the most prominent images on the web: a photo of a train display that reads "

The train travels on time

", accompanied by the comment "

New era

".

A snapshot recalling with mockery the popular myth according to which under fascism there were also "

good things

", comment the Italian media, like the efficiency of the Italian infrastructures.

Also on Instagram, the romantic singer who has become a classic of the transalpine variety Eros Ramazzotti, relayed the pithy and cutting message signed anonymously: "

We are exactly what we deserve

".

Source: lefigaro

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