Friday, March 4, 2011

The view from the American League and friction with Berlusconi

LONDON - The League of the United States in the spotlight. Carroccio's about the next chapter of secret documents released by WikiLeaks. Pages and pages that tell of Umberto Bossi and his party, as they see the representatives of American diplomacy in Italy. The new revelations are an integral part of our country cabled reserved.

And documenting the deep concern of the Alliance for the growing weight of the League. Documents that publicly expressed exclusively in the number tomorrow and anticipates that the Republic. Database L'Espresso: all cabled U.S. diplomatic Lunch with the console in April 2009, Roberto Calderoni and Giancarlo Giorgetti meet Daniel Weygandt, U.S.

consul in Milan. Is still missing a year in regional elections that will mark an exploit for the league, and the Minister of Simplifying the diplomat admits that the Senatùr has, paradoxically, afraid to win big. In the words of Bossi reported by Calderoli: "If we grow again, to the detriment of the PDL, you can tip the balance in the majority, and the PDL will attack us at every opportunity." But "our goal - continued the Minister - is to become the dominant force in northern Italy." Giorgetti, the powerful head of the League in Lombardy, in the console "feel that Berlusconi is trying to create friction to push the league toward extremist positions and thus increase support for the PDL." "But we do not we fall", tells his interlocutor.

So are not all rosy between the two allied parties. Still Giorgetti. If Berlusconi says red?, Asked the diner. Answer: "We say red, and if he says black, then black is fine for us. The League's strategy is to keep up as closely as possible, keep it tight as the embrace of a bear. ... At least for now" .

The metamorphosis of Senatur It's been water under the bridge since 2002, the American record, when Bossi was weaker: "It takes a secondary role in the government realizes that 4 percent of the vote does not make it an equal partner , seems content with his position, seems more mature and reasonable than his public image suggests.

" Now is another story, with the votes tripled: "In times of weakness and vulnerability, Berlusconi has already had to make concessions to the League to obtain support for his legislative agenda staff." Giorgetti, the dolphin in August 2009, the U.S. Consulate in Milan send a detailed report to the parent.

It concerns the health status of Bossi and the upcoming (for Americans) succession at the helm of the movement: "Bossi is a spiritual guru", but after the disease "has refused to quit smoking and because of his health is always less independent, its decline is of increasing concern, not generally discussed openly, including the Northern League.

" The lights are focused primarily on Giorgetti, "A graduate of Bocconi University, from the key province of Varese, the only one who knows both the machine of the party apparatus Romans. In public, says he does not aspire to the succession, but usually not in private deny it. " Disco League Spring of 2008, PDL and the League swept the elections and Ignazio La Russa, speaking with an American diplomat, waiting for his appointment as minister: "In the League there will be problems, their rhetoric is like the music levels high at the disco, if you're not a regular, you'll struggle to understand what is happening and will not be able to distinguish the music, but if you turn down the volume (or if you're used to the atmosphere) then you realize that music is not so bad " .

In short, the League bark, no bite: "The foundation appreciates this brutal rhetoric, but if you tone down the program of the League is not so different from the PDL." Overseas customers are very concerned, however, as evidenced by a report from the Consulate in Milan, dated February 2010: "The rhetoric of immigration ranges from vague protectionist xenophobia heavier, and the League was able to associate the migration to the delinquency of a slice to vote even larger.

" Bossi and the League leader Milosevic So reconstructed, in an interview with Ambassador Sembler, support for the Serbian Milosevic in 1999: "It was the government of the time (there was D'Alema, ed) that sent me to Belgrade to convince him to treat; Milosevic was an intelligent man, but had not realized that the world had changed.

" The U.S. is also concerned in July 2009, with almost disengagement League Afghanistan, and the report states: "Bossi said the high cost and the growing number of casualties, saying that the goals - to bring democracy and prosperity 'Afghanistan - are probably unattainable in spite of the greatest sacrifices.

" The crude Barbarossa "Film forgettable," it said in a report to the State Department about the feature desired by Bossi. "It's a bit 'as the party that has supported the construction, lacking in intellectual subtlety, relies heavily on mythology, folklore and symbolism."

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