Giorgia Melons, leader of the Brothers of Italy and centre-right candidate for prime minister, wants to prevent the Government from Draghi, despite having the powers, venda Eng, the new airline built on the ruins of Alitalia. Stop everyone, Meloni intimated, because "who will govern" after the elections on 25 September will take care of the relaunch of our national airline.
Naturally Mario Draghi is not the type to be frightened by Meloni's ultimatums, and therefore the procedures for selling Ita to Italian-German Msc-Lufthansa consortium and the French-American Certares-Air France-Delta they will go ahead, even if times are tight and it is unlikely that the sale operation will reach the finish line by the end of September, thus leaving the final requirements to the future government.
The right has already sunk Alitalia twice
But there must be one Alitalia syndrome in the right DNA. This is not the first time dealing with the domestic airline and every time it happened the bill was presented to the taxpayers. It is to be hoped that this time too it is not Pantalone who pays for Ita, but the precedents are not encouraging.
At the beginnings of the 2000 were the predecessors of Meloni (then collected in An) to destroy the new stage of the privatization of Alitalia and consequently the alliance with Air France Klm, which perhaps would have got Alitalia out of trouble and would have guaranteed it a more glorious future. But An unleashed the Lazio wing of the party in Parliament, so called because it was headed by Maestrelli's former pilot and former Lazio full-back, Luigi Martini, who sank the Dpcm on the new partial privatization of Alitalia, then led by CEO Francesco Mengozzi ( the only one of the last twenty years who has been able to bring the company's accounts into the black) and the alliance with the French foundered.
Alitalia: Berlusconi's flop that summoned the courageous captains
But the right has committed other crimes against Alitalia and the most famous was that of Silvio Berlusconi in 2008 who, in the name of the so-called Italian spirit and through the unspeakable competition of the trade unions, sank the alliance project of the Italian company with Air France and KLM (theirs again) and then called together the so-called brave captains, about twenty Italian entrepreneurs who entered Alitalia and took over its leadership without being able to either restore or relaunch it, as unequivocally documented by Gianni Dragoni, a leading financial journalist of the Sun 24 Hours, in his book “Captains brave. The twenty knights who privatized Alitalia and sunk the country”. Let's hope that the right doesn't make the masterpiece of sink the former Alitalia for the third time and above all that it does not once again fall to the State, and that is honest taxpayers, to pay the damages.
