I’ll tell you about Draghi’s involuntary election campaign
Tired or not really tired, Draghi remains the "grandfather at the disposal" of the institutions for his skills and his international credibility
Not to flea for colleagues in the poster , who I admire for the wit with which they usually know how to represent really tangled situations in two words shot on the front page, but I wonder why they wanted to indicate a Mario as "unavailable for later" Draghi, who frankly did not appear so to me in the press conference on the new decree of aid for 17 billion euros, without an extra cent of public debt, to families and businesses in difficulty.
The same manifesto cited in support of the alleged unavailability what the Prime Minister opposed to a journalist suspicious of his voluntary "mortgage on the leadership of the next executive" with the administrative action that is not at all ordinary that is being carried out this summer exceptionally electoral and hot: “I do not answer about my willingness to remake the premier. What I think I have already said before ”.
Draghi when Giuseppe Conte opened the dispute of the "strong discontinuity" and the "change of pace", after having suspected him of having plotted against him at the helm of the 5 Stars with telephone calls to Beppe Grillo and with the support of the split of the minister of Foreign Luigi Di Maio, said he was not available to make another government in this legislature. Which in fact ended in advance, albeit short, as an effect of this unavailability, nothing else, confirmed with the no opposite to the formalized request in the Senate by the forceist and Northern League components of the majority to unload the grillini. Or the "grillozzi", as Giuliano Ferrara on the sheet calls them with glee and indulgence.
Yes, it's true. Draghi also said, in another preparatory passage for the crisis, to wish democracy in the next legislature the formation of a non-anomalous government like the one he happened to form in 2021 on behalf of the President of the Republic due to the overlapping of various types of emergencies: a government perhaps chaired by someone elected by the citizens to Parliament, unlike him who is neither a deputy nor a senator. Nor has he been tempted by the idea of allowing himself to be nominated for the Senate or the House by some party in the running, not even among those who most appreciate and bet on his so-called "agenda". Which, for the avoidance of doubt, Draghi himself has been keen to deny that it exists, beyond the one in which the secretary, or the secretary, writes her daily appointments. He only takes care to do what he is committed to achieving in the belief that he will not compromise his "credibility". That as long as he is prime minister – I would say, fortunately for us – it is also Italy's international credibility on every level, including that of the new emergency constituted by the war in Ukraine.
But if not even after the elections of 25 September; if not even in the new chambers of 400 deputies and 200 elected senators, against the 620 and 315 outgoing, the parties and related parliamentary groups, not for this reason also reduced in number, indeed increased further, were able to indicate to the head of state and implement in the classrooms and commissions of Palazzo Madama and Montecitorio a majority, or just a shred of it to try to use it, who can seriously guarantee Draghi's unavailability for a new experience at Palazzo Chigi? Maybe betting, as Giuseppe Conte did in his time, on his physical fatigue. Moreover, he had not prevented Conte himself – another gaffe, given the evident impracticability of the working hypothesis – from attempting to transfer Draghi from Frankfurt to Brussels, from the presidency of the European Central Bank to that of the executive commission of the Union.
Tired or not really tired, and not only imagined at the end of a day or an assignment, and even at the cost of incurring the sarcasm of Labor on duty, with attached and connected human and political assaults, Draghi remains the "grandfather available "of the institutions for his skills and his international credibility, and not only for his grandchildren, described in the first press conference at the end of the year held as Prime Minister, in 2021. It probably cost him the Quirinale after a few weeks, barred from him by the usual Count even that time with the help of a Berlusconi who stubbornly and uselessly put himself in the running with the formal support of the center-right. But it is by no means certain that history repeats itself, albeit under the historical form of farce, also because the buildings are different, the circumstances different, the weight of Conte is different. That on September 25 he will also risk losing the presidency of what will be left of the movement left to him so tightly by the usual, unpredictable Beppe Grillo. In whose sticker album the red earl could end up as a supplement zombie.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-linvolontaria-campagna-elettorale-di-draghi/ on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:12:16 +0000.