If politics weren't, as it is, a serious matter, one would smile to see the last rounds of right and left waltzes in the midst of the electoral campaign. See Matthew's right hand Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi kneeling by Mario Worryi because it solves the crisis of gas after they incredibly stabbed him in Parliament for petty and purely electoral reasons, it's simply mind boggling. But the optimists, who always see the glass half full, warn that Lega and Forza Italia's move implicitly recognizes that Draghi, who is an extraterrestrial compared to the dwarfs of Italian politics with rare exceptions, is the only one capable to solve the gas puzzle.
SALVINI AND BERLUSCONI KNEE BY DRAGONS ON THE GAS
And in Salvini and Berlusconi's move there is also appreciation for the Premier's idea of fighting for a price cap at European level which would lower gas prices, as has been seen in recent days since the German chancellor , Olaf Scholzsubstantially opened up to Dragon's hypothesis of a gas price ceiling which will be the focus of the European summit on 9 September. Naturally Draghi could and could have done much more in the European field if he were in the fullness of his powers, but it is useless to cry over the spilled side.
THE POPULIST WING OF THE PD ON THE KNEES FROM THE FIVE STARS
But, compared to the pathetic self-criticism of the right on Draghi, no less paradoxical is the continuous burst of nostalgia that manifests the populist wing of the Democratic Party, the one led by misunderstood giants of Italian politics such as Minister Andrea Orlando, the "Thai" Goffredo Bettini and the stainless MIchele Emiliano, Francesco Boccia, Nicola Zingaretti, Giuseppe Provenzano and Gianni Cuperlo, just to mention the most prominent. It is the same group that first pushed the Pd into a mortal embrace with the Five Stars to the point of considering Giuseppe Conte "the highest point of Italian progressivism" and then, after the sensational misstep of the M5S in Parliament with the lack of trust in Draghi, he chewed bitterly in the face of secretary Enrico Letta's clear choice of field to cut ties with Conte and to exclude electoral alliances with him. Now the populist and nostalgic wing of the Democratic Party does not hesitate to criticize Letta himself, a prelude to the showdown after the September 25 elections.
EASY CALENDA PROPHET: FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE VOTE THE PD WILL RETURN TO EMBRACE THE FIVE STARS
Just listen to Boccia, born a Latvian but now tail-bearer of Emiliano, who guarantees him re-election in Puglia: in his opinion, the separation from the Five Stars "was a mistake, because after passing 99 gates together we stopped at the hundredth, that of the next budget law. There we divided our paths and now all we have to do is march divided to strike united". And Zingaretti, who like Emiliano is the Governor of a Pd-Cinque Stelle majority, never misses an opportunity to warn that "the national crisis cannot affect the good work done in the territories". Therefore, the words of Emiliano who say: with the Five Stars "we are destined to try again" are not surprising. After all, as the psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati wrote yesterday in "la Repubblica", politics is often dominated by nostalgia because "fear for the future drives us to nostalgically recover the ancient certainties"
When therefore the leader of Action, Carlo calenda, claims that "five minutes after the polls close in the elections of 25 September, the Democratic Party will return to its embrace with the Five Stars" makes an all too easy prophecy. To err is human, to persevere is diabolical.
