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The new president of Liguria

Milan , June 2, 2015 – 09:09

     
     
 

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January 12, 2014 Silvio Berlusconi pulls out by Mediaset to be his political adviser, few thought that Giovanni Toti – a year and a half later – it would end up being dubbed the ‘winner takes all’ . Too moderate for the hawks that still dominated the scene of Berlusconi, too hawk for the moderates who would have dominated in the times of the Covenant of the Nazarene. Too insensitive to the combination diet & amp; being that the former prime minister tried to submit it and, with its Marlboro brushed one after the other, too deaf to the sirens of health consciousness that today govern the life of Villa San Martino in Arcore.

” But we won North Korea, we conquered Pyongyang ‘, he smiles Toti tasting – in the car with his wife through the ‘Autostrada dei Fiori – the electoral success that consecrated governor blue clay. “You see,” I says sitting in the passenger seat while aimed fleeting glances but constant to his wife who acts as his chauffeur, “I have to do a round of applause at the end of myself. When we got here it was for those intuitions that, at least for a day, I want to recognize me. I was I who advise Berlusconi repeatedly to break the covenant of the Nazarene with Renzi. And always I was restored to insist that the alliance with the League and other allies of the center. I told you many times, to the president: “Look, Salvini may seem edgy but ultimately it is a reliable ally.” I thank him for giving me listening. And, fortunately, we are here today. ”

“Here” is quell’ex red region that Toti will rule tomorrow. “Here,” he says, “is a sign that the honeymoon between the country and Renzi is beginning to end.” “Here,” he insists, “it is a workshop that will bring us, in the space of three years, at Palazzo Chigi.” And “here” it is also the new leadership is to replace the scene of the center, among others, that Berlusconi who repeatedly said he wanted to do the noble father.

Toti would never admit it. But it is obvious that, when we talk of succession to Berlusconi, from Sunday night in totonomi is also his, named . Couples, tandem or ticket if you prefer with Salvini. “Are you asking me if I and Matthew can be the new version of what the axis between Berlusconi and Bossi was for the center-right winning? So my answer is yes. In a version revised and corrected, of course. But yes. Salvini is now the spearhead. But no one can say what will happen if Forza Italy gets ready as it should, “says the new governor of Liguria, who before turning to a career in journalism – a climb to the directions of tg Mediaset started from” mere intern “- had been goer sections of the Federation of Young Socialists of Versilia.

No regrets for leaving journalism for politics there are none. Not even half. “I have never regretted leaving Mediaset for Forza Italy,” remarked Toti. “Especially now,” and here the temptation to take off some rock in the shoe is too strong to be pushed back into the silence, “I can spare a thought for all those who were pressing because Berlusconi would leave me where I was, because it avoided to appoint his political adviser … ‘. It also makes the names. “Verdini, the verdiniani, the fittiani … That era is now over. How that turned out strategy dell’inciucio with Renzi. Now it’s up to a new leadership take his guidance of Italy, to Renzi. ”

When the time of the dedication of the human victory (‘To I thank the political Berlusconi, Salvini, the other parties of the alliance “), Toti looks towards his wife, Syria Magri, who drives the car. “To her, that I stand by times of the stage in Mediaset.” There will be disposed of pounds and pounds “of fried anchovies and trofie al pesto, which I devoured during the election campaign.” His favorite movie is Pulp Fiction of Tarantino. “But I do not feel that Mr. Wolf that solves problems,” is the phrase with which the governor anticipates the obvious question. Maybe, but this Toti does not say, that Butch Coolidge starring Bruce Willis. A boxer called losing a boxing match that had to lose at any cost. But that ultimately puts the opponent ko, rebelling to the sad fate of a scripted destiny.

June 2, 2015 | 9:09

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