Meloni challenges the mozzorecchi and offers a helping hand to rebel against the prosecutor caste.
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The prime minister's move breaks the silence, but those who should speak remain silent. Much more than an investigation is at stake: it's the battle for control of the city's future and the balance of power. Dignity sought in Milan.
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Meloni 's foray into Milan doesn't seem like just a carefully disguised plea for those under investigation in the most politically charged judicial inquiry imaginable to not let their pants down before the prosecutor's office. At stake, quite clearly and without the need to invoke conspiracies, is the division of careers between prosecution and defense, that is, the true reform with the most lasting consequences of the first season of the center-right government. For nearly half a century, Milan has been what is called a cutting-edge prosecutor's office . She knowingly and politically chooses the moment to gather a slew of evidence drawn from common sense and transform it into arrest warrants and politicized indictments of a ruling class. Their political DNA is clearly written in the documents of her investigations, and the call for social and media solidarity rings crystal clear. Did you want to build skyscrapers? Mobilize investments? Streamline procedures and clear the regulatory and bureaucratic jungle that hampers administrations that are unable to modernize and incentivize development?
Well, now we'll show you how, with the help of curses in the press, the investigations that precede and prepare the ground for investigations, and with a steely, yet subtle and indirect, sociological critique of capitalism and its mechanisms, it's possible to put you in a position to do no harm, divide you, and reign over you, preparing a better future for all and a new impetus for a political system like the one the Mani Pulite investigations were supposed to generate in the light of the torches and the movements of opinion that accompanied them under the great collective pillory that burned the body of the First Republic. For us of the Mafia, losing Milan is impossible . That is the city that assumed leadership of the change of Republic, barring the unwelcome surprise of Berlusconism, and prepared, with the Corriere della Sera at its head and the great alliance of left-wing and right-wing populism, the royal road to the system's collapse. Milan is the city of banks, finance, industry, consumption and image, of development culture, of true social solidarity and work, of construction and rapid urban planning decisions: all phenomena that should be criminalized, while the Mediobanca gadfly declines and the political use of the Corriere withers.
Meloni's institutionally impeccable entry into the fray, and surprisingly, along with Guido Crosetto, her calming of the demagogic and municipalist anxieties of the municipal opposition at Palazzo Marino, is a sign of a certain civic and political interest . It's not just a guaranteeist approach. If they had any grit, any tight-lipped words, and any character, those who have governed Milan's necessary development across the board—those who, despite a few greedy consultancies emerging and a few truly insignificant conflicts of interest, don't seem to have fallen into the trap of equating corruption and profit—having put business operations, the construction of projects, the raising of investments, and the redevelopment of the city before trade and profiteering—would open a political chapter on the entire affair next Monday at Palazzo Marino. They would seriously reflect on the decades-long period of inaction and restraint following the Mani Pulite investigation, on the attempt to reclaim a key hub of Italy's wealth and technological advancement. They would revisit ideas, culture, and the vision of a city competitive with the rest of Europe. They would denounce the blatant attempt to control a new, unwelcome, civil, economic, and social bloc by a class that wants to decide for voters and political forces. And they would clarify all those things that remain obscure, including the imminent battle for municipal leadership. Will they do so? Will they react with even a modicum of pride to the judges' tirade? Will they take advantage of Meloni's refusal, which breaks down a long-standing front, to a great demagogic rally to sacrifice Milan to facile anti-corruption chatter? I doubt it, but I hope so.
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