Other than putting together the moderates! The first moves of Silvio Berlusconi, new prime minister candidate for what remains of the centre-right, are increasingly on the hunt for alliances with those who have never been moderate. And so in the North it recovers the Alloy, which, Bossi or Maroni, has never used parliamentary tones in proclaiming its extremist and often secessionist programs.
In Rome and in Lazio he is ready to offer the candidacy for president of the Region a Francesco Storace, who has already opened his electoral campaign supported by Assunta Almirante and by the rock band console Mario Vattani (the one of the band "sotto fascia semper", who performs with lots of Roman greetings in the welcoming rooms of the Pound house). An alliance is then looming in Sicily with what remains of the autonomist movement of Raphael Lombard and others who participated in his disastrous management of the region marked by a skyrocketing deficit and a press office that outnumbered that of the White House.
In short, the alliances are marked by the most radical extremism and certainly not by moderation. But things don't change as far as content is concerned. Which are characterized by a radical contestation of what was the leitmotif of the Monti government, even accused of being, in economics, dominated by the Fiom and Sel line, not to displease Bersani and the Democratic Party. At the same time Monti, and not only him, is accused of being in the service of the German Chancellor, since he put into practice the agreements signed by the Berlusconi government with the European institutions.
It looms an electoral programme (the not always "cautious" Brunetta is working hard on it) under the banner of populism and pure and hard anti-Europeanism. It is little wonder that men like Cazzola, Pisanu, Frattini, perhaps Sacconi and others think of finding positions other than those of the PDL, assuming that this is still the name Berlusconi wants to give to his list.
Problems also for other colonels such as La Russa, Gasparri, Cicchitto and so on. In fact, the Knight no longer trusts these and would attribute to their television "performance" the very low level that the PDL has in the polls. In their place he plans to field entrepreneurs like Samorì (it seems that Briatore prefers a more secluded role) and above all horse riders and former footballers and showmen.
In short, if he fails to win, Berlusconi will once again be able to amaze. An astonishment that however goes beyond alarm. For example, the one launched last Sunday by Martin Schulz, the German social democrat and president of the European Parliament who defined Berlusconi as "the opposite of stability". The indignant protests of Storace and Cicchitto were immediate. Those of the EPP are missing (at the moment). For which the further right turn of the Knight could this time be indigestible.
