AGI – The anticipation around which the appointment was built is now over. On Sunday Giorgia Meloni will conclude the FdI programmatic conference which began today in the seafront ‘village’, on the beach of Pescara in front of Piazza Primo Maggio.
Everyone continues to preface the ‘if’ and to decline in the conditional the announcement of a candidacy for the European elections which will be, would be, the official start of the FdI electoral campaign. If only because it will also be possible to physically define the drafting of the lists, filling the still empty box in place number one. And yet, always reasoning with the ‘if’ and the conditional, the ruling group thinks about the specific weight of a prime minister and party leader who is a candidate and head of the list, and also about the dividend of preferences that is expected and which, in cascade, would end up help increase the pool of European parliamentarians.
We start then, with the rooms dedicated to identifying dates (“Milan 1848”, “Budapest 1956”, “Vienna 1683”) set up on the sand of the Pescara coast, crowded with militants, party leaders, parliamentarians and ministers and undersecretaries. Faces also known to the curious, with the sister of the Prime Minister, Arianna Meloni, herself a top party leader, who instead arrives at the event dodging the attention of the media.
It starts, in fact, with another announcement that bounces around Pescara and arrives, via social media, from Giorgia Meloni and focuses attention on another appointment in preparation: the G7 in which she will participate – “in presence”, it will then be specified from the Vatican Press Office – also Pope Bergoglio, on the topics of Artificial Intelligence. We start with a statement of party pride, like the one that comes from Luca Ciriani when he states that “we have come to terms with the past”, and with a reflection on the scenarios that could slow down the future, and the present, like the one developed by Alfredo Mantovano who warns against the temptation to replace fascism with sovereignism as a “weapon of exclusion”.
Luca Ciriani then greets a “day of party pride” and describes FdI as “a party that has become the largest, not by chance, after a path of coherence and courage”. In the introductory panel of the event in Abruzzo – Giorgia Meloni’s constituency – Ciriani refers to that of Milan, when, he underlines, “the great project of a great union of the Conservatives was launched”, and claims that FdI is “a party that has come to terms with his past a thousand times, once and for all.
“We look to the future”, says the Minister for Relations with Parliament who repeats: “We are a great party because we have a great leader called Giorgia Meloni and having a great leader we put his name in the symbol. If others They don’t have this possibility, it’s obviously their problem.” “There persists in this country a piece of the editorial, journalistic, cultural and university world which continues to look at the past with a sense of hatred and division, which imagines an Italy still divided between Italians against Italians which – urges Ciriani – has not yet accepted the idea that we are not their enemy but their adversary and we don’t argue with the enemy, we break down, in any way even with lies and demonizations Even – he attacks – caressing anti-Semitism”.
“It’s worth anything to tarnish those who are on the other side and who legitimately won the free democratic elections in this country. Evidently they don’t like it”, is the statement of pride which, for example, is also expressed by Alfredo Mantovano.
“I don’t want to argue that the mandate that comes from the popular vote ultimately legitimizes everything, but the criticism against populism is frequently criticism of the people tout court, especially when they happen to vote for something different from what the elites expected were to happen.” The Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council calmly and determinedly ‘dismantles’ a mechanism which he analyzes into its various components and summarizes by explaining that “demonological fascism was a weapon of mass exclusion, it translated into the multiplication of labels attached to a person or an cultural group, and the exclusive arbiter was the PCI”.
“In the last few hours – he continues – we have witnessed a remake of the ‘labelling’ operation. Be careful, this labeling dynamic can recur with the terms ‘sovereignist’ and ‘populist’ and playing on the ‘Rule of Law’ category. A similar automatism , so – he continues – you are a sovereignist or populist, you are not even entitled to participate in the European assembly”.
Yet, Mantovano reminds us that it is enough to read, as he does during his speech, article 1 of the Constitution “and here are both terms, sovereignty and people…”. The citation of ‘demonological fascism’ is a reference to Augusto Del Noce and Mantovano is keen to claim full citizenship from the government underlining that “the facts show that Giorgia Meloni and the entire government earned the title on the field, indeed, compared to the past there is a centrality that was hitherto unknown.”
