Cardinal Camillo Ruini leans toward the right-wing coalition of Berlusconi, Meloni, and Mantovano, but raises dissenting voices.

The president emeritus of the bishops of the CEI, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, has never hidden her habit of straying into Italian politics and showing her sympathy for the right. After marrying him, she even went so far as to oppose him Romano Prodi, guilty in his view of having opened up to the communists, with the formation of the Olive Tree governments. An interview given on Saturday to "La Stampa" reveals that Ruini has not lost the habit of directly intervening in Italian political affairs and this time he praises Silvio Berlusconi (but not to her son Pier Silvio), to the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and to his faithful squire at Palazzo Chigi, the controversial undersecretary Alfredo MantovanoBut there's no shortage of disagreement over Ruini's words. "As a political leader, Silvio Berlusconi certainly had charisma, but these are personal talents in public life that rarely pass from father to son," Ruini maintains. In reality, the halt to Pier Silvio Berlusconi is meant to praise Giorgia Meloni, of whom Ruini says: "In Italy, we have Giorgia Meloni, who is truly very talented and who has managed to surround herself with collaborators of recognized value, such as Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano, a Catholic jurist of undoubted standing who has demonstrated ability and a sense of responsibility." Ruini has some objections to make regarding Mantovano regarding the government's responsibility for spying on journalists in the case Paragon would certainly have the former prime minister and Catholic leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, but voices of dissent about the Cardinal also come from Monsignor Perego for Meloni's and former DC's migrant policy Pierluigi Castagnetti who reproaches Ruini for having been "too generous with Meloni".