He tried to the end. Even the Minister was not so convinced. Then they found the plaza.. Army General Francesco Paolo Figliuolothe soldier who had 85% of Italians vaccinated against Covid and since the end of 2021 has led the Joint Operational Command of the Defense Staff, will be the commissioner for the reconstruction of flooded Romagna.
Giorgia Meloni’s line won who wanted to break with the practice of the president of the region who assumes the role of commissioner in case of emergency and disaster. The prime minister would have liked to put the loyal Galeazzo Bignami, former Vice Minister of Infrastructure, but it would have been an explosive move to maintain the majority. At the same time, it could not leave the League that box on whose success the double electoral party will be played, that of the Europeans next June and that of the Regionals in January 2025.
Son, already acclaimed Mr. Woolf at the time of Covid, was the final choice, a technical figure, therefore impregnable. In reality Lega and Forza Italia tried to play the Bertolaso ​​card to the end, forgetting however that the evil suffered by Meloni herself in 2016 would have been insurmountable. In Rome there was the electoral campaign for the Campidoglio and Bertolaso, Berlusconi’s candidate, advised the then young Giorgia and pregnant mother, to let it go, “to think about being a mother.” Unforgivable evil. Meanwhile, Meloni has become the mother of the beautiful Guinevere and also the prime minister.
Thus ends one of the most delicate and divisive dossiers of recent weeks. Actually, Figliuolo would have had no desire to be an inspector. Others are his ambitions: to become Chief of the Army General Staff, a cadre that is released at the beginning of 2024, to later aspire to the headquarters of the Defense General Staff. Going now to commission a rebuild with little money and angry territory is not a good stimulus. The solution was found with the Defense Minister. guido crosetto, also not willing to lose Figliuolo: the general may still aspire to direct the General Staff if, it is explained, “the minister pro tempore chooses him for the position.” Being the Commissioner for Reconstruction, in theory, therefore, does not compromise the appointment in the General Staff.
This is the promise. We will see. Son, however, said “I obey”. His appointment will be effective in two weeks: the time to define the text of the decree. Giorgia Meloni tries to clear the ground in this week of passion. More than solutions, she finds references. The assembly of group leaders of the Senate has postponed the information from the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, for next week. We will speak again on Wednesday, July 5 (at 3:00 p.m.), there will be no question time or voting. The oppositions, pressing for clarification on the management of the minister’s companies (which the Milan prosecutor’s office is investigating with the hypothesis of false accounting but without suspects), have renounced the Question Time formula – more specific on unclear issues – but no Do not let go of resignation. “Let’s listen and then we’ll see,” they say.
A postponement is also coming in the Month: the proposal voted by the oppositions, but not by the 5 Stars, for the ratification of the Stability Mechanism will reach the classrooms on Friday, June 30. There will probably be a general discussion. At that point, however, the majority will call for the vote to be postponed. In September. Center right is in the corner. He is forced to ratify, despite Salvini. But he can’t do it now for at least two reasons: He would implode most of them. And the narrative fed until now by a sovereign and nationalist majority that uses the Month as a weapon of pressure on Brussels to achieve that flexibility in the accounts and in the PNRR that the Government needs like air would disappear.
Meloni does not postpone the only two immovable appointments: communications to Parliament (this morning at 9 in the Chamber; at 3 in the Senate) and to the European Council on Thursday and Friday that upset the agenda after Wagner’s attempted coup in Russia against Putin and his generals.
We can say that Commissioner Figliuolo’s story is paradigmatic of how things are going in most. And of the “good” relations between the League and the Brothers of Italy. More than post-flood reconstruction, these weeks have seemed like a challenge for the most annoying trip. and insidious. With all due respect to the 21,000 farms for about 41,000 workers who are unemployed due to dried mud and many of whom will have to wait 2-3 years before picking fruits and vegetables again. Not to mention landslides, roads, houses, families and the entire huge list of damages for about 9 billion.
The appointment of General Figliuolo is undoubtedly a journey. Stumble for Salvini that he would have wanted one of his men in that box (Jacopo Marrone). And for Bonaccini, who is stripped of the weight and honor of rebuilding his land, but it is a role with too much visibility – and also a risk – to leave it to the president of the Democratic Party in the middle of two electoral campaigns. Even Bertolaso’s idea was a journey. Just as the response of the Minister of Civil Protection in Musumeci was a trip, with the aggravation of being vulgar, who last week told the delegation of Romagna administrators sitting at the reconstruction table: “This government is not an ATM “. In this case, the trip ended up harming the Government itself, which had announced 2,000 million for the emergency (“nobody like us before us,” the prime minister rejoiced) when instead there are 250 million, more or less a tenth, that already They are finished. because everyone, including the police and carabinieri and civil protection, have drawn from this first fund up to now.
There is no money. Luckily Brussels has already made available an initial aid package of 60.5 million. The territory is furious because since May 2 it only sees catwalks and, despite promises, it helps with donations from individuals and from its own pocket. The right went so far as to accuse Bonaccini of having presented an approximate list of damages. Actually, there are hundreds of data sheets prepared and compiled. good job general son.
