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PESCARA – «Write Giorgia», simply Giorgia. She alone, against everyone. She who for years felt mocked, branded as «pesciarola» and «borgatara». She who once again takes to the field and separates the (electoral) world in two. With me or against me. On the side of the truth or that of “lies”. From here Giorgia and her brothers (and sisters, you see Arianna always in the front row), those who come from the people and speak like the people and don’t ask themselves, why is it elite stuffwhether the prime minister is populist, popular or “pop”.
Over there, in the field of “space lies” and “mystifications artfully created by the left”, there are the enemies, the “liars“, those socialists who are “servile” to the EU whom, by crowning themselves leaders in all the constituencies, she wants to send into opposition in Europe too and with whom she swears she will never come to terms. In short, the “communists” of Berlusconi’s memory, “the educated ones”, who owled and thought “she will never make it”.
Instead, here it is, after a year and a half of government thanks to which the word is spelled out “pride”, she feels free to shout that «Italy is back». He will never recant, never accept lessons “from the heirs of the PCI who replaced Moscow with Brussels”. The idea of asking voters to write her first name on the European elections ballot only came to her while she was constructing the Pescara speech. She thinks that his strength is to speak on first termsalways, to all the people he meets and above all to be reciprocated with the tu: «It’s the most precious thing I have».
It seemed like the perfect choice for a campaign designed as a referendum on the government, a referendum on oneself. A winning idea, to polarize the competition as much as possible with the female leader of the opposing side. Because if the founder of FdI can afford to ask the vote «for Giorgia»the secretary of the Democratic Party was unable to convince the Dem leaders to put her name in the symbol: imagine if she had proposed to them to print «Elena Ethel Schlein known as Elly», is what Meloni doesn’t say. Which she knows how to twist the knife where it hurts most: «Since, fortunately, I am not the secretary of the Democratic Party, my party will give me a hand in this campaign…».
For 73 minutes he reads a little and goes off the cuff a little and never mind if half of the speech is very reminiscent of that of Atrejuwhere for obvious reasons there was no dig at the absent Salvini: «Thanks to Matteo, who preferred the bridge and the family. I’m joking, huh!”. A “roller coaster” of decibels and dizziness, due to the cursed otoliths that have been tormenting her for months. After the ovations, the waving of flags delivered to the cheering base by the volunteers, after the Tajani’s declarations of loyaltythe applause of Lollobrigida, Fitto and so on, await you at the Oriente restaurant, overlooking the sea and all the tables reserved for the right-wing government. But «Giorgia is half dead», she gets into the car and is taken straight to Rome – where she will hold the closing rally on 1 June – leaving behind the controversies over the state manager who wore his party’s t-shirts and a sunny and armored Pescara, with all the hotels booked in bulk by the organization at the request of Giovanni Donzelli.
Dressed in blue like the sea behind her, «Giorgia» has something for everyone from the stage. Criticism Reports and calls for applause for Edi Rama, «lynched for trying to help Italy». He attacks Giuseppe Conte as a “bottist” and “cynic”, who wrote the word peace on the symbol “to gather some votes” and on whom he throws the weight of 200 billion in construction bonuses, “the largest asset ever created in Italy”. Quote Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi to say that their recipes are «the same ones that we have been expressing for many years» and is careful not to reveal whether or not she is willing to support the banker who preceded her at Palazzo Chigi, if ever «Ursula» should his encore attempt at the helm of the EU Commission fail. Mattarella pulls on schools and Ramadan and once again it makes Salvini’s ears ring: «I am criticized by some on the right because I also speak with the leaders of some family other than mine». She doesn’t reveal the strategy, but she hasn’t forgotten that five years ago «von der Leyen was also voted for by Hungarians and Poles, who were never part of the majority».
Why Europe «do less but do better» and perhaps also to cover its side from Vannacci’s slogans, it will try with all its strength to shift the axis of the European Parliament to the right, but it knows well that it could be forced to support a President of the Commission supported by the socialists and invites us not to confuse the plans: «The Commission is made up of people of all colors because the commissioners are indicated by the governments». But enough about discussing it now, “it’s a surreal debate.” First you write «Giorgia» on the card. Then it is decided who will lead Europe. And she’s running to make his votes count.
