One Word: Contagion
Terrible news, I’m afraid.
The trainwreck that is Italian politics has always been a hoot to watch. But this time around the implications to what happens in Rome are, as Trump would say, yuuuge.
You’ve probably seen the news-flow out of Europe.
Tasked with finding a suitable candidate to head a coalition between Luigi Di Maio’s Five Star Movement and the far-right League headed by Matteo Salvini, a coalition, which I might add has to be scaring the living isht out of Brussels, has not been an easy task.
Firstly, they went and chose someone nobody has ever heard about.
Why?
Well, Italy has many “colourful characters” in politics, and that is what scares Brussels more than anything else. Draghi’s worst nightmare must be sitting across the table from this guy discussing Italy’s bill to Germany.
In case you’re not up to speed on what these gents stand for here’s a sampling from Matteo Salvini.
Slaves of the European Union? No, thanks!
I can’t wait for Italy, with our government, to regain its sovereignty to defend the national interest in any way possible. Unacceptable intrusion from a European bureaucrat in Italy’s elections. The immigration policies and economic sacrifices imposed by the European Union have been a disaster and will be rejected by the free vote of Italians.
European bureaucrats calm down. League will always defend our fisheries and the agriculture of Italy. Enough with the European standards that slaughter our businesses and our territory!
No! What this coalition needed was someone entirely vanilla, very unlike their own leaders, a nobody, a perfectly useful idiot.
And so they picked Giuseppe Conte.
Who, I hear you say?
Precisely.
But poor Giuseppe didn’t last very long. Heck, he was tasked with what was one helluva job — sugarcoating this…
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