Parliament is shared with Salvini without Berlusconi

The Chamber of Deputies elected this Friday president Lawrence fountainan ultra-Catholic “Salvinian” admirer of Vladimir Putin which captured 222 votes, with the support of the right-wing coalition that won the elections on September 25, formed by the Salvini League, Brothers from Italy of Meloni and forza italy of Berlusconi.

The choice of Fontana, a benchmark for the hard wing of the League for his positions against the collective LGBTIthe abortion and sanctions on Russia, was greeted by the left-wing opposition with a banner reading “No to a homophobic pro-Putin president“.

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This Thursday, the person chosen to preside over the other parliamentary seat, the Senate, was Ignacio Benedict Maria The RussianMeloni’s right-hand man and old leader of the Italian Social Movementthe party of the last fascists (in fact it is named after the dictator Mussolini).

new executive

With the election of the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the can Legislative three weeks after the elections and shortly the head of state, Sergio Mattarellawill begin the round of consultations to create the Executive.

Meloni, the most voted, hopes to receive the commission to govern and has spent several days preparing a list of ministers to propose to the president, but the distribution of portfolios has caused the first setback in the coalition because Berlusconi feels underestimated.

In fact, the tycoon, who has returned to the seat nine years after his expulsion from the Senate for his sentence for tax fraud, made his senators not vote for La Russa for the presidency of the Camera high to show their discomfort (today they did vote for Fontana).

Berlusconi has even allowed a page to be seen before the Parliament chambers in which he had written the alleged characteristics of his ally Meloni: “Obstinate, arrogant, arrogant, offensive. You cannot agree with her,” read the image captured .

The three-time prime minister, an old political fox, attended the elections with his ultra allies promising to serve as a moderate part of the coalition, but he has just found that, far from that, for the moment he has been excluded from the distribution of Parliament.

In fact, he has given up placing one of his favorite paladins in any ministry, lycia Ronzuolliwith whom Meloni maintains notorious disagreements.

In the last hours, some members of Forza Italia have dropped that the party will go on its own, alone, to the round of consultations in the Quirinale Palace to form a government, but Salvini has mediated and assured that the right will present itself together.

Meanwhile, the games center-left they attend with a certain stupor the dawn of the Meloni legislature, surprised by the names placed in front of the parliamentary chambers.

“Worse than this not even with the wildest imagination. Italy does not deserve this insult,” commented the outgoing secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, second force in the hemicycle.

However, the proclamation of the new Italian Parliament has certainly been a cumbersome process. The right-wing coalition is the majority and, if Berlusconi’s grudges are resolved, it will be able to govern, that is clear, but the weight of the opposition is unknown.

Just think that when the Forza Italia senators said “no” to La Russa, 18 others from different parties came to his aid and proclaimed him, although his identity is a mystery because they supported him under the secret ballot.

In short, with the formation of the Parliament, Mattarella will now have to entrust the formation of the Government, predictably to Meloni and his right-wing allies who won the elections, something that could happen next week because there is no time to waste in the face of the economic crisis and society that crosses the country.