From now on, "I'll be differently Berlusconian": this joke by the secretary of the PDL, Angelino Alfano, is enough to give the extent of the dissent brewing in the center-right party in the face of the extremist drift that led Silvio Berlusconi and the hawks to provoke in fact the government crisis with the announced withdrawal of parliamentarians and ministers. Yesterday the PDL ministers gave clear signs of dissent by distancing themselves from Berlusconi's latest moves.
One after another, from Alfano to Lupi to Quagliarello to Di Girolamo and Lorenzin, all the PDL ministers have clearly dissociated themselves from the act of rupture announced by Berlusconi for Parliament and for the Government, emphasizing that a policy of confrontation risks to damage both the country and the PDL itself.
However, Berlusconi seemed adamant and yesterday argued that his party's goal is to get to early elections early. On the contrary, the former leader of the PDL in the Chamber, Fabrizio Cicchitto, said that before the early vote we need a stability law and above all a new electoral law, also because the Constitutional Court will most likely declare the Porcellum unconstitutional by December.
In view of Enrico Letta's speech to the Chamber, in which the premier will ask for trust, unprecedented scenarios are opening up and yesterday many voices spoke of the possibility of a new majority formed by a part of the PDL, by Civic Choice, by the Democratic Party and perhaps by a group of grillini in disagreement with the Aventine line of the chief comedian.
