Salvatore Merlo

Vicedirettore

Milano 1982, vicedirettore del Foglio. Cresciuto a Catania, liceo classico “Galileo” a Firenze, tre lauree a Siena e una parentesi universitaria in Inghilterra. Ho vinto alcuni dei principali premi giornalistici italiani, tra cui il Premiolino (2023) e il premio Biagio Agnes (2024) per la carta stampata. Giornalista parlamentare, responsabile del servizio politico e del sito web, lavoro al Foglio dal 2007. Ho scritto per Mondadori "Fummo giovani soltanto allora", la vita spericolata del giovane Indro Montanelli.

political legacy

Grillo and Conte clash over the sacred relics of the ‘vaffa’

The comedian will not be founding a new party: he is merely competing with the former prime minister over those core values that Schlein wants to align with the PD.

Salvatore Merlo

22 SEP 26

Rorschach decree

The State-Panda negotiations: a 2027 of rampant lawlessness

An ANM magistrate suspects mafia bosses are behind the scrapping of the €167 road tax on small cars. Only pedestrians are spared

Salvatore Merlo

18 SEP 26

Sigfrido’s medals

In his urgent appeal against Rai, Ranucci attaches awards, viewing figures and audience approval ratings

To demonstrate that the new Rai appointments are not on a par with Report, the lawyers have pieced together a career without a single misstep. There is no mention of the Lavitola case, only circumlocutions and bureaucratic jargon.

Salvatore Merlo

16 SEP 26

Sigfrido Ranucci at the launch of his book (Ansa)

ELLY DOWNGRADED

In Reggio Emilia, the PD’s secretariat has dropped the diminutive form and is now called “Elena”

The initiative, which began as a bit of fun, actually has its own logic, and is an idea from Nazareno in which there is clearly far more political engineering than in the minimum wage: because only a full name can go head-to-head with another full name

Salvatore Merlo

15 SEP 26

The ‘Stecco’ party

Primaries, allies, leaders: to every question, Schlein replies that “the programme comes first”

Judging by the words of the PD secretary, there is good reason to suspect that if she had been asked what time it was, or whether she preferred the seaside or the mountains, the answer would have been exactly the same. The programme will probably appear one morning as a result of parthenogenesis. Born of itself, without fathers and therefore without dissidents. The case of Bacillus rossius

Salvatore Merlo

12 SEP 26