Calderoli and the phantom referendum of 12 June. “Allies shut up, I fight with Calenda”

He lost three kilos in three days, but he cares little about the costume fitting. On the contrary: he will not go to the sea, and he hopes that the Italians will not go there either. Not on June 12, at least. On that day, in fact, we vote for the referendum on justice. A battle for which Roberto Calderoli, gray eminence of the League, has chosen to fight on the front line. And it doesn’t matter if the allies keep a safe distance from the front: reinforcements come from the ranks of traditional opponents. Senator, a hunger strike has begun in recent days. Because? “TVs do not dedicate even 1% of the space reserved for information to the subject. Mine is an extreme gesture, but Pannella taught us it: extreme evils, extreme remedies”. How long will his protest go on? “Until the end, I will not stop. I also wrote to the President of the Republic and today (yesterday, ed) I will contact Draghi to intervene”. Does he eat nothing at all? “No, only two sugary coffees a day and lots of beautiful water”. Has he already seen any results? “Something starts to move.” Why has there been so little talk about the referendum so far? “Those who are against it do not have the courage to support the reasons for not, he prefers to make the questions fail due to lack of quorum”. Does the Ukrainian crisis not explain the lack of attention paid to the questions? “Before there was Covid, now there is war. But there are prime-time broadcasts that deal with everything except referendums. Where it happens, they anathemas or ridicule the questions. I mean, in the first case, in Gratteri as guest of the ‘Costanzo Show’; in the second, at Littizzetto at ‘Che tempo che fa’ “. At least they talked about it. “In fact, I thanked Littizzetto. I am annoyed by the vulgarity with which she jokes, but in the end she said she will go to …