“Deplorable statesman” – Libero Quotidiano

“A brilliant entrepreneur, he was nevertheless a deplorable statesman”: Corrado Augias, guest of Giovanni Floris a ByTuesday on La7, he said it about Silvio Berlusconi, commenting on the government’s decision to include a commemorative stamp dedicated to Cav in a series that also includes other figures, such as Guglielmo Marconi for the 150th anniversary of his birth, Saint Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary of his death, Giacomo Puccini and Giacomo Matteotti for the centenaries of his death, the mafia victim Libero Grassi and the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, on the centenaries of his birth. The stamp will be issued on June 12, 2024, one year after the former prime minister’s death. “With this initiative, of which we have promoted, we have responded to the request of many Italians”, commented Licia Ronzulli of Forza Italia.

Augias thinks differently, who in Floris’s study did not spare gratuitous attacks on the late Cav: “He insulted his adversaries, he insulted state bodies, he mocked the payment of taxes, he called those who voted for the PCI etc. And he is a convicted felon, giving him a stamp means continuing to give the bad example“. Poison comments aside, in reality Italy will not be the first nation to issue a stamp to Berlusconi. As the Newspapersome African countries, such as Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Niger, they had already honored him in this way when he was still alive, especially for the victories of his Milan and his international relations with the African continent.

Here is Augias’ speech to DiMartedì