New faces for Forza Italia, not only profiles that must emerge within the party, but also others to look for in external worlds. The input relaunched by Pier Silvio Berlusconi goes in this direction, in line with the strategic indication that he and his sister Marina have repeatedly transmitted in recent months to the political creature founded by his father.
«I have true gratitude for Antonio Tajani and the entire Forza Italia team», who «kept the party standing after the death of my father, which was anything but easy», explains the vice president and CEO of Mfe, adding that his thoughts «do not change» compared to what he said in July: “I believe, looking to the future, that new faces, new ideas and a renewed program are inevitably necessary».
Compliments to Giorgia Meloni and the continued political effect of Pier Silvio’s words
The end-of-year greetings in the Mediaset studios are also an opportunity to reiterate our compliments to Giorgia Meloni (“The best prime minister around in Europe”) and that her taking the field “is not a topic that exists today”. But every time Pier Silvio Berlusconi talks about politics, politics goes into fibrillation.
Tajani from Cambodia welcomes the invitation to renewal
Thus the words pronounced by the Knight’s second son quickly rebound from Cologno Monzese and reach Tajani in India.
“All the advice is useful and valuable”, observes the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, saying he is “absolutely in favor of the constant renewal of FI”, speaking of “perfect harmony on the need for renewal and looking to the future”.
“We are working – adds the Italian leader – also to always renew ourselves in arguments, in political action, in updating the liberal thought which was Berlusconi’s thought and to always bring out a new young ruling class”.
Something is moving within Forza Italia: internal growth and external search for new profiles
In the background there is a party in which something is moving. When the founder’s children meet in Arcore at least one Tuesday a month, the discussions are not limited to the family businesses. We also talk about FI and the opinions that emerge are not always positive. Renewal is the key word of the inputs received from Marina and Pier Silvio in recent months.
It means, on the one hand, growth of figures within FI, and for this reason many are watching with curiosity the moves of two deputy secretaries, the governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio and that of Calabria Roberto Occhiuto, who pushes on liberal themes and next Wednesday will be the protagonist of an event at Palazzo Grazioli, what was the Roman residence of Silvio Berlusconi.
FI towards 2025: founding values to bring into modernity
But on the other hand, the strategic indication that comes from Arcore is to look for profiles in external worlds. Young and able to interpret current issues. For a party that must bring its founding values ”to the reality of 2025″, specifies Pier Silvio Berlusconi, clarifying that the discussion of new faces “is valid for Forza Italia, it is valid for politics in general, for industry and the economy”. The family, it is said in FI circles, is aware that the process takes time, but it must be started and it is up to the party leadership to do so, in times compatible with the horizon of the political elections.
No taking to the field but constant attention to politics
And there is already talk that he could have a say in the lists. There are no turning points in sight, not even those suggested by the fact that in 2027 Pier Silvio Berlusconi will be 57 years old, like when his father entered politics: «Today science leads to life getting longer, there is time…».
In the meantime, all his energies, assures Pier Silvio Berlusconi, “are dedicated to Mfe and what remains to my family”. «It’s natural that Marina and I are passionate about the fate of Forza Italia. Among my father’s legacies, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, is Forza Italia – the Knight’s second son continues -. We are two working people, passionate and committed to our work. Anyone who is an entrepreneur cannot be distant from politics.”
Comments on government, maneuver and assets
So with journalists he doesn’t shy away from comments on the government, which “in a super complicated situation is doing well”, “even on the manoeuvre”. The judgment on the balance sheet is clear, but not even unpublished: a word that “I don’t like at all and honestly seems out of place to me. Just as the expression extra-profits was very wrong”.
Criticism of Europe: «It must exist, act and defend itself»
With his gaze turned to Brussels, however, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, speaking “as a citizen, and even more so as an Italian and European entrepreneur”, thinks that “what has certainly been done to date is not enough, but Europe must be able to exist, act and should defend itself”.