They call him the serial gaffeur. And they make fun of him for those that more Italian define themselves as topical. But Danilo Toninelli, class 74, born in Soresina, in the province of Cremona, has raised the gaffe to an art form. Orthodox Grillino, he was annoyed by that mea culpa of Luigi Di Maio on the paper for the Uggetti case: “There is no need to apologize, first I want to see the papers because it is a problem of morality, we must first look at the reasons for the sentence” , he pointed out. And he didn’t add anything else or almost. The last time he had made such a clear public statement it was equally final: “Don’t come and ask us for votes for Mario Draghi.” They asked him, at the 5 Star Movement, and the grillini gave them to him without causing too much trouble.
The list of gaffes of the former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure is long. A department not to laugh at, presided over by him at the time of Count one. The one that closed the ports, so to speak, with an attachment explains Toninelli: “Up to now not Salvini alone, but Salvini, with myself and the Prime Minister Conte we have decreased the number of landings by a truly enormous amount”.
But it is not for this claim that the former Minister of Transport has become famous: this phrase was promptly forgotten in the days of Count two. Rather, there are other statements that have made him famous. In the exercise of his functions, that is as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, once, in October 2018, he explained: “Do you know how many Italian goods and how many of our entrepreneurs use the tunnel with transport mainly by road. on the Brenner? ” It was a rhetorical question, at least in his intentions, that the then minister addressed to journalists. Too bad that Toninelli overlooked the fact that the tunnel did not exist.
But the then Minister of Transport was not the type to give in to the first difficulties. When the latter arrived, with the Morandi bridge, he hypothesized a viaduct at a height of 45 meters where “you can play and eat”. And to better understand the concept of “after tragedy life returns” he took a selfie a few days after the collapse of the bridge on the beach, smiling with a baseball cap. The grillini got angry but he held up. After all, he did so even when interviewed on TV he had to sponsor incentives for electric cars and confessed to having a similar Diesel SUV.
A party man to the core, Toninelli he has always campaigned for the Movement. In Emilia-Romagna, at the latest regional, the intrepid former Minister of Transport, even knowing that it was a losing game, spent himself for the Movement. And one day he triumphantly presented the Grillino candidate: «Here you are Daniele Tanichelli». On «La7» The air he pulls made him a den: the candidate’s name was Simone Benini. Toninelli had got the name wrong. And also the surname.
