VIDEO | When De Luca said to Meloni: “You work, bitch!”. The ceremonial funeral was celebrated in Caivano

ROME – We could already rename it ‘the Caivano meeting’, without fear of debasing the Teano meeting on 26 October 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Vittorio Emmanuele II. For goodness sake, there is no comparison: the unity of the country is not under discussion today – at least from a geopolitical point of view – but its credibility. The […]

ROME – We could already rename it ‘the Caivano meeting’, without fear of debasingthat of Teano on26 October 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi and the King Vittorio Emmanuele II.For goodness sake, there is no comparison: under discussion today is not the unity of the country – at least from a geopolitical point of view – but its credibility. The images of the handshake Between Meloni and De Luca they will in fact be remembered for having immortalized the least institutional greetings ever seen in the history of Italy. Two public positions, respectively at the top of the Government of country and its second most populous region – therefore, by representation, the second most important -, which face each other so openly that they end up first insulting and then self-insulting as a sign of defiance. “You work, bitch”, said the governor of Campania, referring to the Prime Minister on 16 February, sitting on one of the sofas of the ‘Transatlantic’, the legendary antechamber of the Montecitorio Chamber.

The volcanic De Luca had promoted a demonstration in Rome against differentiated autonomy. He was supposed to ask for the release of the Development and Cohesion Funds, but he ended up covering the Chief Executive with offensive epithets: “Without money you can’t work. You work, bitch!”. The histrionic Prime Minister, today in Caivano, in the land administered by De Luca, showed all of her communicative charisma, approaching the governor with a decisive step and a grim look and carrying the memory in the palm of her hand of that February 16th: “I’m that bitch Meloni, how are you?”. It had to present a sports center, a multipurpose structure symbol of redevelopment and rebirth of an area tormented by crime, rape and violence against girls and boys. He ended up repaying what he had suffered. A brilliant social stunt, a potential gold mine of interactions which, in fact, was promptly relaunched – and spread – by the official channel of the Fratelli d’Italia event : Atreju. On the video there is a logo with the words: “You write Giorgia”. In the election campaign, anything goes, one might think. It’s a shame thatGiorgia Meloni and Vincenzo De Luca, at that precise moment, were not there representing their own political party but the Italian and Campanian citizens. Of all of all. And then one might think that perhaps it was not the rebirth of Caivano that was celebrated but the funeral of the ceremony, of that rigid official protocol to be followed when a public office attends official appointments. Who cares. Maybe Giulio Andreotti was wrong: “Power wears out those who don’t have it”?