In a combination that must be considered fortunate between the 48th anniversary of the horrible death of Aldo Moro, after 55 years of imprisonment in a Red Brigades hideout, and his own discharge from the clinic following the removal of a neoplasm fortunately benign in the initial laboratory tests, Giuseppe Conte has decided to present himself in his latest edition, or version. Which would indeed be Moro-inspired, complete with a title assigned to one of his front-page articles by the Messaggero: “Moro’s lesson and the new times.” A title and an article spared from the front page of the southern branch of Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone’s publishing empire in a gesture, I hope, of respect for the memory of the late DC president, who shares with Conte, and vice versa, only the Apulian region of origin.
This Moro-inspired rediscovery of Conte, like the previous one of Fiorentino Sullo in a Campanian theater in the presence of a incredulous and still living Ciriaco De Mita, when the current president of the Five Star Movement was still prime minister and was attending commemorations of deceased Christian Democrats; this Moro-inspired rediscovery of Conte, I said, smells more of convenience than political opportunity considering the forced and health-related absence of the former premier a few days ago at a gathering of former DC members at the Luigi Sturzo Roman Institute for the presentation of a freshly printed book on Moro, precisely. A gathering attended by the PD secretary Elly Schlein, although unable at least for age reasons to register in the submerged party of Christian Democrats that survived the dissolution of the party of the crusader shield.
In the active or passive pursuit of the PD secretary on the path of the primaries to choose the candidate of the so-called broad field of the alternative to the center-right, Conte did not want to spare even the unaware, blameless, and whatever else Aldo Moro. Defenseless, in his grave in Torrita Tiberina, from the most bizarre attempts to appropriate his political legacy.
