Tajani, who is the strong man of Forza Italia who relaunched the party and muffled the post-Berlusconi era: the mediation strategy

The polls are clear: Forza Italia, the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi, is stable. The findings made by research institutes in view of the European elections on 8 and 9 June place it firmly above the 8% threshold, where it finds itself struggling to win the duel with the League and establish itself as the second party of the centre-right majority .

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But beyond the tensions between the two parties, It has already brought home one victory: the fact of having survived the post-Berlusconi era: «It’s not easy, as a player from Maradona’s team, but Maradona is no longer there… and you only have one chance. Ask for help from the whole team and the whole curve”, said Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani a few months after the Cavaliere’s death. Many credit Tajani’s leadership with having cushioned the post-Berlusconi blow, relaunching the party but consolidating its position. The deputy prime minister took the baton and started running at an average pace, but with determination and competence, gaining consensus, and above all stability.

The man of golden moderation

He is silent, diplomatic, never unbalanced. Tajani’s leadership initially seemed clouded, contested by a section of his party that accused him of excessive subservience towards Meloni. And instead Forza Italia is there, stopped between multiple fires. Tajani is the man who condenses the values ​​of the aurea mediocritas, the Horatian principle of right moderation, of those who avoid excessive ambition. Moderation as the only way to avoid upheavals of the soul. But also of internal and above all external politics. We will never see Tajani in eccentric shows at La Coccia, but neither in a corner of the room, forgotten. With his diplomacy he carves out an exceptional space for himself, and in the meantime he creates a revolution at home.

Foreign policy

We have also seen proof of his diplomacy in recent months, especially in management of diplomatic relations in the conflict between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas. Reassuring signs for the Jewish State: “we defend Israel’s right to exist.” But at the same time, he maintained a position open to dialogue with the Palestinian side, for example, meeting today with the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (PA), Mohammed Mustafa. In the end, with his usual aplomb, he came out with a clear and respected position: “For Italy, the ‘two peoples, two states’ solution is the only way”. Aurea mediocritas, once again.

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