Sacrificial lambs "Una Donna" and the others: a necessary sacrifice to propitiate male politics. Accomplice to the devout silence of the elected representatives, who are the first to celebrate failure. There is now an unbridgeable gap between citizens and parties. And for women - all of them - a step backwards.
The position of women in politics is further diminished and mortified by the Quirinale affair. Starting with Una Donna, all the female names thrown into the fray, from Elisabetta Belloni to Marta Cartabia, Emanuela Severino, Letizia Moratti and Elisabetta Casellati - who spontaneously offered her throat to the torturer, unable to control her ambition - ended up in the meat grinder of the terrible, ramshackle, surreal game of male leaders. With the exception of Giorgia Meloni who has played on her own and -whether or not we share the [...]