Change the target in the viewfinder by Silvio Berlusconi. "We will not carry out an electoral campaign against Monti, but we are convinced that the austerity imposed by the European Union, on us as on other countries, under pressure from a Germany which plays the role of hegemonic country, with a non-solidarity but selfish hegemony, has sent the economy into a spiral endless recessive”. This is the explanation given by the Knight in an interview with Bruno Vespa.
In short, the target against which to try to reunite the different souls of the moderates cannot be the Professor. The chancellor, on the other hand, took aback. Berlusconi understood this after what he unleashed with his last press conference. Last Saturday – right after being sentenced to four years in prison in the Mediaset trial – the former prime minister had advanced the hypothesis of depriving the Monti government of trust. However, the effect had not been the one hoped for, given that in the following days the majority of the PDL dissociated itself from the extemporaneous anti-Montismo of the Cavaliere, widening the rift that runs through the majority party in Parliament.
as to new electoral law, the former prime minister attacks the idea of reintroducing preferences instead of blocked lists, undoubtedly the most contested norm of the Porcellum. “Preferences are an Italian anomaly. I am literally terrified of vote swapping. Don't forget that Fiorito in Lazio and Zambetti in Lombardy were elected with preferences".
But Cavaliere naturally takes great care not to explicitly support the much reviled Porcellum (“It is the Democratic Party that wants it, not us”), even though that law was passed in 2005, when Berlusconi was in government.
By now, however, the former prime minister has changed his mind. He would like a Spanish-style solution, “which involves a high threshold. He would also be suitable for the Democratic Party, because it favors the first two parties, it works very well and guarantees governance ”.
