Il Cavalier Silvio Berlusconi has been received at the Quirinale Palace by the stand in for Umberto II, the last king of Italy. The scene and the manner and portrayal is exactly the same as in 1934, when at Villa Savoia, Victor Emmanuel III told “il Cavalier Benito Mussolini” that he was sacked. In both cases, the successor is chosen by the regnant. Then it was Badoglio, now it’s Monti. The fall of fascism came about because of a world war that was lost. The fall of Berlusconism because of an economic disaster at a European level. At that time the liquidators were the angloamericans, today the Germans and the French. The spread above 500 points has kicked out these caricatures of governors, of ministers and ministresses, not the Opposition. If it were up to the PDminusL, this government would have gone on forever.
A phantom is going around Europe, that of the collapse of the euro. The detonator is Italy and its public debt that have to be put under protection before it’s too late. But it’s already too late … Meanwhile, however, just as when a company goes bust, the creditors want to recover the maximum possible before the Italian default. The Monti Government will reduce the international exposure of our debt. The patrimonial tax is already a done deed, together with the introduction of ICI on the first house and the slashing of the number of public employees.
Berlusconi is an old zombie. He was already politically dead in 2008. He was resurrected by Waterloo Veltroni and the Oppositions, for three years that seemed to last so long, they protected him in an interminable number of confidence votes and by gifting him deputies with open hands, from Calearo to Razzi, not to mention Scilipoti. The Second Republic is coming to an end. Overall It has made us look back with longing to the First. The parties have taken charge of the State and they have fed off it. Anyone who shouts “Elections, elections!” doesn’t know what they are talking about, or perhaps they are just thinking of an armchair. The date of the elections has already been decided in Washington, Paris and London and in all probability it’ll be in 2013. Since the end of the Second World War we have been a Country with limited liberty with American bases that defend the whole peninsular. Now we have been put under house arrest. Economic policy is no longer up to us, but to the IMF and the ECB. We receive letters from the EU that are equivalent to orders, ultimatums. Mussolini, on leaving the audience with the king, was loaded into an ambulance. He was told it was for his own protection. In reality the vehicle was full of Carabinieri who arrested him. Yesterday evening, there was no ambulance in front of the Quirinale Palace and nor were there Carabinieri. Pity. It would have been a worthy and appropriate exit. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.