FI, Barelli: “Berlusconi family? Normally parties are led from within”

Rome, Apr 10 (LaPresse) – “If the Berlusconi family is positively leading the party? Well, I mean, normally parties are led from within, right? They clearly have a love, an obvious affection for the party which is flesh of their flesh, which is the result of the work of the great father, so it is obvious that they take an interest in the things that the great father did. After that, however, there is the day-to-day running and you have to be inside it. But it is obvious that they take an interest, I would dare say that it is taken for granted”. Thus the FI group leader in the Chamber, Paolo Barelli, speaking with reporters after leaving Palazzo Chigi. To those asking whether there is any discontent in the party over certain decisions coming from Cologno, Barelli then replied: “I don’t know, ask Tajani. I was indicated by Silvio Berlusconi, president of the party, and I was elected by the parliamentarians. The parliamentarians were 44 at the elections, like cats. Now they are 54, ten more, which is over a 25% increase. They were not promised anything, they came because they have confidence in the group leader, in the Forza Italia party and in its growth. These are real data, after which, when a Pope dies another is made. We are all indispensable and no one is indispensable”, Barelli concluded.