Draghi, SuperMario's challenge to the center-right. Meloni, the healthy reverse on the ratification of the Mes

Mario Draghi he never speaks casually. His long interview yesterday with Corriere della Sera is not pure academia or even simple pride for the results achieved by his government beyond expectations. Along with words of personal esteem for the new Premier, Giorgia Meloni (“skillful leader with a strong electoral mandate”), the words – and even more the numbers – of the most esteemed Italian in the world are a subtle challenge to the centre-right with the premise that he, a true civil servant, is not interested “in political or institutional positions, nor in Italy nor abroad". But how nice it would be to see him at the helm of theEurope and who knows, in one of the most difficult moments of the Old Continent, the future may not hold some surprises.

DRAGHI AND THE TWO MESSAGES TO THE CENTER-RIGHT: ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LEVELS AND ON EUROPE

The messages which, with its incomparable style, Super Mario send not so much to Meloni but to the entire center-right there are two. The first starts from the results achieved by your government, both on an economic level and on a too often underestimated social level. The economic ones are there for all to see and will make us long to regret the two-year period 2021-2, in which - let us not forget - the pandemic raged first and then the war, which after more than 70 years, returns to appear on the doorstep . On an economic level, the Draghi government signs a growth in GDP of 10% in two years, the stuff of an economic miracle of the 6,7s and 4s: +XNUMX% last year and almost XNUMX% this year. Which means, accounts in hand, that Italy has done better than France and Germany. And which, in addition to growing more, has also reduced the debt "as never after the war" and is "the only large European country that, in recent years, has managed to increase its market shares in international exports"

DRAGHI: ITALY HAS GROWN MORE THAN FRANCE AND GERMANY BUT IT HAS ALSO IMPROVED SOCIALLY

Faced with the undeniable economic successes of the Draghi government, populism of the right and left (Salvini and Conte in the lead) usually climbs onto straws and claims to accuse SuperMario's politics on a social level. Inequalities, poverty, unemployment: it's the least known part of Draghi's action and it's a shame that reality speaks clearly. “Istat numbers – recalls the former Premier in the interview with Corriere – tell us that this year our family policies have reduced inequality – measured by the Gini index – from 30,4% to 29,6% % and the risk of poverty from 18,6% to 16,8%.”. As for unemployment, at the beginning of 2021 it was 10,2% and at the beginning of October of this year it fell to 7,8% while "the employment rate reached 60,5%, a historical record and a very important fact because the greatest source of inequality is unemployment”. “These – concludes Draghi – are the results of the government's social and economic agenda which I had the honor of presiding over”. In short, "Italy has shown that it can do it, but cohesion and dialogue are needed".

So what is the subtle challenge that Draghi, by making the numbers speak, launches to those who imprudently dropped it and to those who succeeded him? It's very clear: those numbers, the numbers of the Draghi government's indisputable economic and social success, are stones and are an inevitable battlefield with the new center-right government. Meloni, who is not silly at all, knows this and the other evening, in a moment of sincerity in Vespa's living room, she said: "Challenges don't scare me, the only thing that scares me is disappointing". But then the question is: if the center-right fails, net of the economic effects, to replicate the success of the Draghi agenda, what was the point of the political earthquake that led to the elections on 25 September? All the political forces and all the voters should ask themselves this, but also the media which, sorry to say, in their widespread inability to read the reality of Italy without distorting lenses are part of the crisis of trust and credibility that often crosses our country .

MARIO DRAGHI AND GIORGIA MELONI: WATCH OUT FOR EUROPE

The second very clear message that emerges from Draghi's interview is about Italy and Europe. SuperMario, in full harmony with the President Sergio Mattarella, he had already reminded Meloni during the handover at Palazzo Chigi: "Be careful, Giorgia, because if you isolate yourself in Europe, Italy becomes irrelevant". Now Draghi is once again hitting the same nail: “We need to be careful not to create a new negative international climate towards Italy. Maintaining our anchorage to Europe is the best way to multiply our international weight”. Despite the initial confusion about migrants and the inexplicable misunderstandings with France by Macron, Meloni seems to be starting to understand the lesson: the signal she launched the other day on the reform of the Mes is one of the most important political innovations of the new government. It is a pity that few newspapers, no talk shows and very few sites have noticed it and that the newspapers that have explained the difference between using and ratifying the new Mes can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Not even Draghi thought of using the Month because at the moment Italy does not need it but it would have been paradoxical that, after having booked 200 billion euros from Europe with the Next Generation EU, Italy would block the reform of the Mes already signed by 26 EU countries except our. To try to minimize her obvious reversal of the follies of the years in which she was in opposition, Meloni shouted that she will not use the Mes by mail but made it clear that she will not oppose its ratification in Parliament. It is a courageous choice that was by no means obvious and that should be greeted as a nice surprise under the Christmas tree. Better late than never.