He continues, after yesterday's daggers from the prime minister, the remote duel between Mario Monti and Silvio Berlusconi. The leader of the PDL, tireless in these days of television overexposure, in fact attacked the prime minister on the hot topic of the Monti agenda, during an interview with tgcom24.
The Knight, while admitting that he had not read the Monti agenda because he was too busy, and that he had his collaborators tell him about it, nevertheless found a way to attack the Professor: "Our fears were well founded: we are moving towards interventions always inspired by austerity economy, with the maintenance of the imu and the arrival of other taxes. There are no other innovative elements, but only a distance from what the Italian economic reality is compared to the vision that a professor used to giving lessons from a professorship has. A stereotypical program of what Europe wants to impose on the Mediterranean countries and which leads directly to recession”.
But it doesn't end there, because Berlusconi increases the dose on the Imu, after Monti had reiterated the need for it at a press conference, unless you want to run the risk of having to double it in just one year: "A statement devoid of any foundation – according to Berlusconi -. We have prepared a Dl that collects the money in five different directions. A statement by someone who is very far from the true accounting of the state accounts".
Berlusconi then devoted himself to one of the specialties of the house, namely the review of the past, denying that he had ever put his "hands in the pockets of Italians" and stating, with regard to the spread, that "Compared to the last five months of our government, in the 12 months of the caretaker government the rates were higher".
The Knight, after prophesying Monti's failure ("He will have an absolutely useless number as far as the government of the country is concerned") then offers his version of the offer of candidacy for the premier: "The offer was not a priority mine, but from the president of the EPP at my suggestion. With my usual generosity, I intervened and said that I was willing to take a step back in that case in the interests of the country".
A freewheeling Berlusconi, who claims the success of his television presenteeism, before closing by saying that "the elections are two months away and I am confident that we can get to 40% and win the election, for my own good and for the good of Italy”. Seen from here, it will be two very long months.
