It is no coincidence but anyone of the politicians who was in the defense did not have an enviable political career. The last actors who were not protagonists were the Hon. La Russa, Guido Crosetto, Filippo Milone and so on.
Today the Minister Roberta Pinotti was fished out with the proportional in an armored seat of the PD. In his city, Genoa, in the majority seat suffered a resounding defeat.
Undersecretary Rossi, would not have found any party ready to nominate him, so he would have lost before competing. He politically committed suicide alone with the story of the use of the service car, discovered by the Hyenas and the recruitment of his son as a collaborator by a parliamentary colleague.
Undersecretary Alfano, on the other hand, measured himself in Campania with Civica Popolare but did not hold the wave of the grillini and after only 4 legislature returns home.
The moods in the corridors of the Roman defense buildings are in turmoil because approaching the "hot" appointment of the chief of staff of the defense. Generalissimo Claudio Graziano at the end of the year is preparing to hold the prestigious position of military representative at the European Union. Many thought that with a stroke of the tail, the current government, nominated the successor to ensure continuity to a phantom line / project of command, under the direction of the Quirinale.
The appointment is skilfully and hygienically assigned to the next government, with the hope that the rotation between the armed forces, not written, but customary is taken into consideration. In the race there would be General Enzo Vecciarelli and Admiral Valter Girardelli, chief of staff of the Air Force and Navy, respectively.
The aeronautics, on paper, would take precedence because the armed force has already "overridden" its turn. Admiral Girardelli, however, is considered by many to be a "race horse" not to be missed in an interforce environment. The hope is that the next government will evaluate the appointment with the necessary serenity without being conditioned by old palace poisons.
At stake is the leadership of the armed forces and it is not a mere game of power, but the awareness of having to give the best possible head to one of the national strategic sectors.
JV
(frame taken from the film "The Fall")
