After days of rumors, the mystery of the interview has been solved. Francesco BocciaChairman of the Democratic Party in the Senate, sits in the living room of Come on peoplethe program on Rai 3 from Nunzia De Girolamo, his wife of over 12 years and a former representative of the center-right party. The Democrat, who arrived smiling and relaxed, as if he were talking to his wife on the sofa at home, answers the questions of De Girolamo, who immediately welcomes him into his television reality. After an almost embarrassed greeting, the hot topics and unpleasant questions immediately come to the fore: “I was a minister before you, then you were a minister, with one difference: I was always and definitely the minister’s wife.” De Girolamo begins . “You,” the presenter recalls, “were never the minister’s husband. Why do you think?”.
“Our society is chauvinistic,” Boccia replies. “We have to be sincere,” repeats the Democrat, but he has no time to support his defense before De Girolamo takes the floor again: “All nice words, but I have to interrupt because I think that this country is with a good one Example can be changed.” and – the moderator remembers – “when I gave birth to Gea (the couple’s daughter), I took parental leave and you went to work” – she thinks about it again – “actually, to be precise be, after a week.” You went to a football game with my father to watch football. Nice example of a man,” comments De Girolamo with a smile.
Another topic, another exchange of words. The minimum wage. Boccia explains why his party wants the minimum wage and why the Democrats’ fight is the right one. But the final invitation also addresses the right to support the ideas Elly SchleinShe gives De Girolamo the lead in order to annoy her husband again. “I have to play devil’s advocate,” says the moderator, “You have been in government for many years in many different governments, but why haven’t you introduced this minimum wage?” query.
Boccia smiles, but answers almost piqued. “I’m sorry you say that,” says the Democrat, “that is the rhetoric – wrong in my opinion – that the right is currently using, forgetting that the Democratic Party was represented in governments for other reasons,” recalls The former minister “There was also the League, there was Forza Italia” refers to the Monti and Draghi governments. However, De Girolamo continues to press him: “But haven’t you asked yourself the question that you probably shouldn’t have been part of some governments?” the audience applauds.
The woman and man continue to chat and between family memories and politics, another topic emerges: the insults at the premierer Giorgia Meloni some CGIL fighters depicted in a video that the Prime Minister also relaunched on his social media. However, after Boccia dismissed the perpetrators of the insults as idiots, he didn’t like Meloni resharing the video. “Releasing this video and then saying, ‘Tell me if you agree with this’ is not a sign of great style,” he insists. “Do you think he shouldn’t have published it?” she asks. “If we play victims,” he tries to defend himself, “we are not building anything new.”
However, De Girolamo arrives on time: “There is a theme: if the Prime Minister had been a man, these sentences probably would not have been said.” However, he tries to defuse the tension by addressing the public: “Look at me “Look at me,” she calls to order; “Try to listen. I’ll tell you one thing: when a woman is prime minister,” emphasizes De Girolamo, “every time a woman is exposed, there is a tendency to say points, points, points. It’s never over with you,” concludes the moderator . Applause and then memories, the war in the Middle East and some thoughts about the future and her husband’s desire to return to his hometown of Bisceglie. An intimate tête-à-tête with different rhythms that ended with the most classic “See you at home.”