Fedez-Forza Italia pact on mental health. And the young people of FI argue with those of the League on Vannacci

The toughest confrontation today was supposed to be between Fedez and the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi, repeatedly attacked by the rapper in the past. Instead, the real clash was between the youth of Forza Italia and that of the League. The fuse was lit by the attack from the stage by Simone Leoni, today appointed national secretary of FI young people, against Roberto Vannacci, the new vice-secretary of Salvini's party. "Know that for each of those aberrations there are people who suffer , there are peers who take their own lives, shame!", said Leoni, recalling the phrases of the general and MEP on disabled people in classes, on blacks and on homosexuals. The response came with a note from the federal coordinator of the Lega Giovani and deputy Luca Toccalini: "Simone Leoni's attacks on Roberto Vannacci are unfortunate. Forget the insults to the allies, and focus on the many battles common to the entire Italian center-right that their guest of honor today, Fedez, has always denigrated".

And it is precisely the Milanese rapper who, according to predictions, should have brought those ideas into enemy territory, guest of the congress today.

Tajani had covered his tracks this morning: "We are inviting Fedez not because we share his ideas, but because if you are strong in your ideas you are not afraid of confrontation". And yet, from the stage, Fedez seemed to agree on practically everything with both Giuseppe Cruciani, interviewed together with the rapper, and with the deputy and former national secretary of FI giovani Stefano Benigni. Linking the party and the singer , in addition to the idea of ​​a Fedez-Forza Italia pact on mental health – a topic on which the author of Battito says he is “super willing to lend a hand” – there is also the attack on the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala (“luckily he cannot run again”), one on the judges and the way in which some of them conduct investigations, one against the M5s and Luigi di Maio (“During Covid, people close to Musk called me to send respirators to Italy, I asked them why they hadn’t called di Maio and they told me ‘we trust you more than them’”) and finally one against Marco Travaglio, due to his choice to write a book against Silvio Berlusconi after the former prime minister had died.

When we ask Tajani if ​​Fedez's candidacy in Forza Italia would be unthinkable, he stares at us and doesn't answer. The Foreign Minister seems to have more serious things to think about . And in fact, while the provincial and regional youth secretaries alternate in the room, the head of the Farnesina locks himself in a room and speaks on the phone, then comes out and says to the journalists: "Good news!" Adam, the only one of 10 children of a Palestinian doctor who survived a bombing in Gaza, "will be treated in Italy as soon as possible, as soon as the authorization problems are resolved . This shows how much the Palestinian people look to Italy as a place of hope and salvation." And after a lunch with the delegations of the European People's Party youth, the Foreign Minister returns to the room to listen to Fedez and Cruciani, then to witness the acclamation election of Simone Leoni. Who on stage, thanking the young people of Forza Italia, takes off his tie as Luigi Di Maio did in 2020 after resigning as political leader of the M5s. But the meaning is the opposite: not an end, but a beginning. "From today we take off our ties and return to the streets, squares, markets, schools to make Antonio Tajani's project win". This is also the meaning of the invitation to Fedez, as Benigni explains from the stage: "He is someone who speaks to young people, who has millions of followers". Speaking to the real country, but not to the gut as Roberto Vannacci does, according to a good part of the young people of Forza Italia. Outside the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome, in the morning, a scene from a real country was before our eyes: a boy had come with a sign to demonstrate his dissent . Gaza? Security? None of the above. The sign read: "As long as Lotito is president of Lazio we will boycott Forza Italia in all elections".

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