Goodbye Berlusconi, the chapter on succession opens. Renzi: «I'm the heir? Someone like him can't be replaced."
Former ally Casini: «The leadership of the moderates today already belongs to Giorgia Meloni. In Forza Italia there will be sharks and little sharks"With the death of Silvio Berlusconi the chapter of the succession opens in Forza Italia and, more generally, in the leadership of the moderate and pro-European center.
Many look to Matteo Renzi . Which, however, rejects the hypothesis of being able to represent a sort of successor to the Knight.
«Berlusconi has consciously chosen not to have an heir. He has never considered the hypothesis of a succession to himself,” Renzi explained. Adding: «A personality like yours, exceptional in the literal sense of the term, cannot be replaced».
Furthermore, Renzi assures that he is not aiming for the blue electorate: «It would be disrespectful to talk about it now. But it is clear that Meloni has a bigger space in the center to conquer and I would be surprised if he didn't try to occupy it ».
Pierferdinando Casini is on the same wavelength: «Berlusconi's political legacy – Giorgia Meloni has already taken it in the political elections in September – he explains to the QN ». And the alliance has already changed. "When Berlusconi took the field - Casini points out - there was the centre-right, today the right is in government".
With the loss of the leader, underlines Casini, a former ally of Berlusconi, now a senator of the Centrists for Europe, «Forza Italia will be in trouble like all parties in its conditions. It is clear that there will be sharks and little sharks».
(Unioneonline/lf)