Silvio Berlusconi is there. At least that’s what he says on call to his Forza Italia team. «I’m back on the field», and above all he adds: «I’m available to everyone». After the most difficult post Covid moments, the blue leader says he is ready to take the scene back, after all “I’m better, I’ll have to stay a few more days at home according to the doctors but then I’ll be able to go out”. Then, politics and the alliance: “Matteo Salvini’s proposal for a federation of the center-right?” Says Berlusconi: “We consider it with great attention.” In short, “let’s not say no, we’ll talk about it in the party’s dedicated offices. Certainly greater unity with the other forces of the center-right will allow us to give greater strength to our historical battles ». Sure adds the, Knight,
“Now let’s evaluate the federation of the center-right of the government, then I’d like to think in the future of a single party of the center-right: we hope to convince the Brothers of Italy”.
In the morning Berlusconi had also received a phone call from Lega leader Matteo Salvini from which we learn that it was “an affectionate, positive call with an eye to the future. Among other things, the two leaders discussed the hypothesis of a federation that “we want to build for the good of Italy,” said Salvini, according to the same sources. First doubts, however, on the federation front by Coraggio Italia. Osvaldo Napoli, in fact, if on the one hand he speaks of a «not new suggestion on the part of Salvini», on the other he explains: «To create unique groups by the end of June, for example, is a goal that I consider unattainable. But to do what and go where? Salvini has his contacts in Europe, on his horizon there are Orban, perhaps Le Pen, the Polish Mazowiecki. Above all, we have a contact person, Angela Merkel and whoever will succeed her at the helm of the CDU. In Europe we vote with Orban and Le Pen, or together with the EPP where are our roots? ». In short, he concludes: «There are issues to be clarified, and they are not marginal issues but represent the flesh and blood of politics. If we all sit around a table and discuss it with serenity, in the end we can really find a point of synthesis useful for the country and the center-right ». The blue ministers Gelmini and Carfagna also have the opposite opinion to that of the Cavaliere. With this federation with the Lega, Forza Italia risks losing its identity, its moderate values. Instead we will be successful if we expand that field, not risking annexing to the League. Thus the two ministers Mara Carfagna and Mariastella Gelmini would have opposed the opening of President Berlusconi, during today’s meeting, to Matteo Salvini’s proposal. In particular, at a certain point Mara Carfagna would have said, according to those who were present at the meeting, that this opening, also spread to the outside through agencies, could push about 50 Italian parliamentarians to leave the party. At this point, the group leader in the Senate, Annamaria Bernini, in favor of the federation, would have intervened harshly: “What is this, a Mafia warning?”. “” Either I know the Mafia and I know what it is, “the minister replies.” Fortunately I don’t, “the rejoinder.