Who thought that the exclusion from the Government of Danilo Toninelli had brought down the curtain on the ministers who make caricatures, he must change his mind. The Grillino Minister of Education, Lorenzo Fioramonti, is doing everything to emulate the former infrastructure minister – the one who announced the elusive Brenner tunnel – and collects gaffe after gaffe every day. And to think that his mentor, Luigi Di Maio, praised him so much as a brilliant economist happily repatriated from South Africa to put himself at the service of the country. Had he stayed there, perhaps he would have done less damage and less foolish.
The latest in chronological order is the enrollment of the eight-year-old son in an English private school which, as proof of confidence in the educational system that he himself has to lead, is not exactly the best, even with all the extenuating circumstances. But the gallery of crashes and slips with which Fioramonti delights us every day does not end here.
Forget about the vulgar judgments expressed on Facebook about your colleagues in Parliament, but what about Fioramonti's idea of taxing snacks and fizzy drinks to punish those who eat and drink badly and encourage, with the new taxes, "healthy lifestyles"? Even the idea of putting a globe in place of the crucifix in classrooms "to allow all cultures to express themselves", while moving from an appreciable secular logic, was expressed with the elegance of an elephant in a crystal shop and therefore hastily withdrawn.
The initial proposal by Fioramonti di seems to have been silently filed away resign if the Treasury hadn't allocated at least three billion to the school. The budget maneuver will arrive in the next few days but those three billion for schools do not seem around the corner, even if it is to be sworn that the minister will not move from his seat in Viale Trastevere. After all, Rome is always better than South Africa.
So, Fioramonti after Toninelli. But these here are ministers or specks? The answer is all too easy. But how sad.
