The Italian Parliament opens the legislature with tensions on the right

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The Italian Parliament has a bad press, it is a fairly widespread sentiment, especially outside Italia. This Thursday, day of the first meeting of that hemicycle after the elections of September 25, it will not be the day that denies that feeling. “Go drink for…”. In this way, the old Silvio Berlusconileader of Come on Italyhas addressed the co-founder of Brothers from Italythe far-right Ignazio La Russa, shortly before the vote in which he was elected (with 116 votes in favor, out of 200) as president of the Senate.

It has been the loudest sign yet of Giorgia Meloni’s difficulties. More and more people believe that the way of the leader of the Brothers of Italy to form the new Italian Government is very up hill and that the problems may not only come from the Liga of Matteo Salvini, the second most important member of the right-wing coalition that won the Italian elections. Proof is that, beyond Berlusconi’s outburst, Forza Italia also chose not to vote for La Russa, a former minister whose father joined the ranks of Berlusconi himself. Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.

To the brawl for the usual theme: the distribution of the seats of power. Berlusconi – who today has re-entered Parliament after a 9-year absence – is not satisfied with the progress of the negotiations with his political allies. In particular, according to the Italian press, the ex-Cavaliere would be upset about the cast between the League and Brothers of Italy of the presidencies of both houses of Parliament. And also one of his disciples, Lucia Ronzulli, would have been excluded from the government team.

Nazi death camp survivor

Even so, Berlusconi finally opted for save the furniture and, after his outburst, he said “pleased” by the appointment of La Russa. “we are collaborating loyally and in total agreement to give our country stable institutions and a strong and cohesive government,” tweeted the conservative politician, who had already been chosen as his political partner.

It was not the only tense moment of the day. Due to her advanced age, Senator for life Liliana Segre, Nazi death camp survivor Birkenau (Germany), had to temporarily chair the first session of the new Parliament and open the 19th Italian legislature. Something that the old senator did not miss to remember that this month marks the centenary of the March on Rome (1922), the episode that at the time marked the end of the parliamentary system and the beginning of the fascist regime.

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“It is impossible not to feel a kind of vertigo when remembering that girl who on a day like this in 1938, disconsolate and lost, was forced by racist laws to leave his (primary school) desk empty,” said Segre, before handing over the presidency of the Senate to La Russa, whose full name includes the Benedict Maria, in open reference to the now deceased Italian dictator. “The date of the birth of the Kingdom of Italy (when the country was a monarchy) should sooner or later be a holiday,” said La Russa.

More surprises, however, may come in the coming days.including this Friday, the day in which the deputies will have to continue voting to elect the new president of the Italian Congress, after no candidate could prevail in the first three votes on Thursday. The suspicion is that the buying and selling of parliamentarians has already started. An indication was given by the same vote that the Senate gave to La Russa, in which, according to analyst calculations, at least 17 opposition senators They voted in favor of the extreme rightist.

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