There was a time when he said “Chill the lame” and “Chill the Judas.” But also “Fico the miracle worker”. Or more complex phrases like “Fossi Fico, paraphrasing Elio and Storie tese”. But now, “Cool is Cool” and not only for his nemesis Vincenzo De Luca (the nickname actually belonged to the outgoing governor), but also for Democrat Elly Schlein, for Clemente Mastella.
The campo largo di Campania soundtrack plays the notes Scurdammece ‘o passa. And what a past. To which the Sheriff, speaking of the grillino trio of Di Battista, Di Maio and Fico, hopes without half-heartedness and without pleading: “That they can kill you all”. Red croissant and knock on wood. O. “Wrong as Judas, but kissing and hugging in public”, thundered Ras Salerno. “Fico the half pippa”, “Fico the cripple”, “Fico the prodigy”. Once again citing the nickname created by De Luca.
Cool, the guy who “exploits the Grillina wave,” who is dangerous to such an extent that “the truly dramatic thing is to imagine this guy could rule Italy.” Or rather the Campania Region.
Prophecies and superstitions. Drama and reality. The DPR Chair’s institutional uniform did not dampen the wave of insults towards five-star members who arrived at the DPR by bus only to then experience the excitement of the blue car.
In 2018, Clemente Mastella, now also an ally, attacked him for his double standards in cutting political costs. “Shame on you dear Fig Leaf, you have found yourself: double standards”. Democrats followed closely. “When someone offends us, you have a duty to stop them. You let the M5S insult us without saying anything by saying that we are fraudsters”, said Emanuele Fiano, “You are the third highest office holder in this State. You thereby undermine your mandate, you undermine your impartiality by never intervening to censor your colleagues from your home group”.
A year later, in February 2019, Five Star Member of Parliament Giuseppe D’Ambrosio imitated handcuff movements while giving a speech to a member of the Democratic Party. Dem deputies, in protest, left the House. And “Fico the lame”, “Fico the Judas”, “Fico the biased” commented with “goodbye”, which was then followed by an apology: “It was my mistake”. I’m cool, but I’m cool. Or rather “the most beautiful promise of renewal for the region”, Schlein dixit. And it doesn’t matter if the party you lead for “Fico il Moscio”, “Fico il Giuda”, “Fico il fazioso” was until a few years ago “the number one public danger in the country”, composed of “criminals”, “destroyed by investigations and punishments” and which “did not want to fight the Camorra”.
And it doesn’t matter that for “Fico il Moscio”, “Fico il Giuda” and “Fico il fazioso”, De Luca is someone who “will be brought home definitively”, as the head of a “patriarchal family”, whose “sons are involved in an apparently well-organized system of corruption with a 15% bribe to throw away the ecoballs that are De Luca’s hard workers” because “it is clear that there is not a leaf that can be moved that De Luca does not know about” and therefore “they are the ones who are corrupt must leave the Campania Region and I hope that the De Luca system ends as soon as possible.” To be precise, he didn’t do anything.
Scurdammece’ or the past. 72: ‘Great, for Smorfia. Astonishment. “There are no problems with the board: Mastella and De Luca already understand what I want”, assured Fico. But no one is stupid. And from today, until tomorrow, we choose.
