If you read the newspapers, you will certainly have noticed that the situation in Europe is quite tense, especially due to the Brexit and the migrant emergency.
The thing that worries most of all, however, is the infamous "populist wave", that is to say the "spontaneous" spread (the quotation marks are there for a reason) of far-right parties,which have almost the samefeatures and the same values in common, such as xenophobia, nationalism, the absolute inability of their constituents to understand a written text, and above all anti-Europeanism.
With the recent European elections, however, a large part of the continent has breathed a sigh of relief (you use that in english?Hope so).
Defeat (or at least containment) of the sovereigns in most states, in favor of Europeanist and / or ecological parties.
But not in Italy.
In my country, the Northern League, one of the parties mentioned above, took the 34 % .
The other governing party, the infamous5-Star Movement, 17%.
At the 2018 political elections it was at 32%, they made the mistake of promising free money to everyone, then ,when the money didn't arrive, the voters evaporated . Strange huh?
The reasons behind this success deserves a separate article, which perhaps will come in the future, but in the meantime, here are some absurd things that will probably help you better appreciate your current government.
- The"Vicepremiers" (VP):
Also called "Vice-Presidents of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic" are in fact two ministers deputies to replace the Prime Minister (in our case, a puppet there just to occupy a role, which for the sake of synthesis we will avoid to name ), in the case he should not be available (as in our case, where in fact he is similar to a cardboard shape).
The current VPs of the Italian Republic are today Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini of which the first to head the Ministry of Labor and that of Economic Development, while the second is the Minister of the Interior.
About Luigi Di Maio, there is not much to say, in order to introduce him.
The guy never completed the studies, occasional odd jobs, later activist in the 5-Star Movement, an anomalous party owned by a private company with a comedian accused in the past of plural murder that blabber type stuff that HIV does not exist as frontman. Party that is currently the head of the actual government.
In 2013 Di Maio becomes Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies.
So, by chance, he is young, without criminal record (yeah, for the 5Stars Move. thats enough to rule a country) and absolutely not qualified for that job, what could go wrong?
In 2018 he covers the post of Minister of Labor. He has no idea what a labor minister is or what he ever does, but we leave it out. For now, that's just the beginning.
A little taste, of what i will offer to you in the next future, during a conference in Shanghai, in front of a lot of important people, talking about a guy that is de facto the most powerful man in the world the secretary of the Chinese communist party,he refferred to him with the name of "President Ping". Twice.
(I cannot find an englishsource, vieo are online anyway)
Matteo Salvini.
Never completed his studies, worked almost exclusively in politics, Matteo Salvini is currently at the head of what, to date, is the first party in Italy for everything, the League.
Two things and then fast forward, the Northern League was born as a secessionist party that aimed to separate northern Italy from the south, considered more backward.
All seasoned with a particular contempt for, precisely, the inhabitants of the south, and the Italian State in general, accused of starving the fertile productive North Italy.
Currently it is, as already said, the first party in Italy, Salvini calls itself a fervent patriot, and, hard to believe is very popular even in the much belittled South.
The reason for all this will perhaps be explored in a future article. We are all asking, here in Italy, I got some hypotheses, but for now no answer at all.
However, we were talking about him, Salvini .
https://twitter.com/matteosalvinimi/status/1137475207705313280?s=09
- matteosalvinimi
(from his social media. Tonight nightmares are on me guys)
Matteo Salvini. 1000 euros a day of public money for his PR Office, a total of_19 days_ in the office working from the beginning of 2019, the rest of the time running around making speeches and taking pictures while eating.
_Matteo Salvin_i, who as a young man was caught on camera while singing the choir "O Vesuvio lavali col fuoco" ("or vesuvio wash them with fire" -vesuvio, the vulcan-) with other fellow members of the Northern League, referring to the inhabitants of Naples, South Italy.
Matteo Salvini, who got a southern Italian woman pregnant, and at the reparation marriage, he stripped, put on a green shirt (symbol of the League) and started singing anti-south choirs eith his friends.
In front of the bride's relatives.
( https://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-3/politica/ci-vuole-bbc-ripescare-grande-aneddoto-salvini-ex-moglie-180574.htm
Could't find an english source. Still sorry guys, gotta do that)
It was such a daring thing in its complete imbecility that I almost respected it.
Seriously, had a friend of mine done it, I would have laughed about it and I would have, i don't I know offered him a beer ?.
Well, this man, today, is the head of all the Italian security forces.
This is only a first part of i got to tell you about the current Italian political landscape.
A phase that, trust me, is so absurd that I, myself, wonder if maybe these things are not too surreal to be believed.
In the next parts I will tell you how the 5-Star movement wanted to give a role of relevance to the secret services to a guy who can't distinguish the front from the back of a tram, of how Salvini's communication team called a prize contest for who shared more posts on social media.
I'll talk about novax, chemtrails and moon landings that never happened.
Of canadair, Nigerian mobsters and Zorro puppets.
Of inflatable dolls and Jim Carrey triggering long-time-dead dicatator's niece on Twitter.
See u soon, and still, sorry for my bad english.