One week to go all-in. The European vote bet, on 8 and 9 June. And the world showcase of the Italian G7, from the 13th to the 15th. It is the double challenge that makes Giorgia Meloni hold her breath. Everything is held on the beaches of Pescara, the fortress of the Italian right where Fratelli d’Italia yesterday inaugurated the three-day programmatic conference which will lead to the big announcement tomorrow morning: Meloni on the pitch, head of the list in all the constituencies.
Pope Francis will be at the G7. Meloni: «he will participate in the table on artificial intelligence». First time for a pontiff
While the blue tents on the beach are crowded with ministers, undersecretaries and party leaders, tormented by the selfies of the militants, here is the surprise announcement from Rome. Pope Francis will participate in the G7 on Artificial Intelligence in the presence of a pontiff: it is the first time for a pontiff to attend the summit of Western leaders. Meloni gives news of the coup with an institutional video, shot at Palazzo Chigi, before taking on the role of people’s leader and leaving here in Abruzzo. «I am convinced that the presence of His Holiness will make a decisive contribution to the definition of a regulatory, ethical and cultural framework for artificial intelligence», the prime minister smiles in the room and speaks on this, the clear rules to guide the AI revolution. a language similar to the Holy See. She calls it “the greatest anthropological challenge of this era” and “a technology that can generate great opportunities but also brings with it enormous risks.” Then the invitation to the Pope to Borgo Egnazia, in Puglia. Not a bad appetizer to the main course, the announcement now on everyone’s lips of the candidacy for the European elections that the helmsman of the Italian right will make tomorrow morning in front of her allies: Matteo Salvini, Antonio Tajani, Maurizio Lupi.
THE TOUR GOES NORTH
First act of a tour that will take her to the Italian streets again. While at the Conservative summit convened by Vox leader Santi Abascal in Madrid for mid-May she will almost certainly withdraw. He came to Rome to invite her, ten days ago. But the prime minister will limit herself to a video: the magic circle has advised her to avoid a visit that would turn into an open clash with Pedro Sanchez and would recall the old Iberian rally of two years ago, “I’m a mother, I’m Italian”. Three stages scheduled in Italy. And among these, news, there is one in Veneto. You’ve been thinking about it for days, the Prime Minister, and you seem to have broken the deadlock. The Meloni-tour will have to pass through the symbolic region of the North-East which in the 2022 elections gave a boost to the Brothers of Italy, archiving the era of a right entirely locked up in the ring road. The political signal is sent to the League which here, in the stronghold region led by the “Doge” Luca Zaia, will try to defend itself at the European vote in June. It is Matteo Salvini’s real worry, Veneto, and for this reason the Northern League leader tried to enlist Zaia until the end, now that the prospect of a third mandate in the region has faded. Then, faced with the governor’s resistance, it was decided to play the Vannacci card in the North-East too: the general of the “World in reverse” will be the leader in the Centre, but could also be in the running in the North. It’s still the case of the day, here at the Pescara festival. Giovanni Donzelli, head of the organization and master of ceremonies of the Abruzzo conference, noted with a frown: “He pulls less than last summer, but if the allies nominate him, so be it.”
THE WAITING
For the rest, in Abruzzo the wait is all for “Giorgia” and her electoral bullfight. Resting on the counters, the gadgets update the new pantheon of the right. Calendars covered with courtly quotes, from Goethe to Plato, there is also Ghandhi on the “purity of the heart”. Luca Ciriani announces from the stage: «The premiership will be in the chamber on May 6th». Here is Guido Crosetto standing out among the baby-Melonians in white and blue bibs asking for a shot. «Giorgia candidate? For goodness sake, it’s your choice, but it will be hard work…” Walking like him, among the stands of the flame, Arianna Meloni, sister of the prime minister at the head of the secretariat, cannot wander around, highly armored by her staff who shield her from the reporters, standing in a circle like the Spartans. “Are you sure you’re not running too?” “Again? And that’s it, you seem like my children always asking the same question – he laughs in response -. Tell the truth, don’t you want to vote for me?”.
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