Who was the architect of Mattarella’s re-election at the Quirinale
That figures like that of Ceccanti – architect of Mattarella's re-election – are now out of parliament is also one of the paradoxes of the deep crisis into which the Democratic Party has plunged . Paola Sacchi's note
Lanfranco Palazzolo recalls it in an interview for Radio Radicale (broadcast yesterday) with Stefano Ceccanti: the applause for the re-election of Sergio Mattarella in the end was taken by Enrico Letta and Giuseppe Conte and not by the main architect of the operation, i.e. the Ceccanti himself.
He is the constitutionalist, deputy of the Democratic Party, not re-elected in the Policies of 25 September, to whom, however, at first Letta even preferred Nicola Fratoianni, leader of the radical Left. Ceccanti was then readmitted as head of the list in what had been his college in Tuscany. And yet, the constitutionalist dem, a solid reformist formation, guarantor who voted three yeses in the referendums on justice of the Lega and Radicali, leader, with Enrico Morando, of the Equal Freedom Association, was truly the key to getting out of the dramatic twisting of the political system in the presidential election a year ago.
Now, a year after Ceccanti is out of parliament, the Democratic Party is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of identity and prospects. The Pisan professor who never wanted to emphasize his role as the true protagonist of the solution to that crucial appointment, a discreet character also gifted with a sense of irony, a politician who enjoys transversal esteem also for his open, non-ideological approach with political opponents, that evening after the election of the Head of State we met him alone towards the Montecitorio exit. While at the center of the Transatlantic a group of deputies from the Democratic Party gave thunderous applause to Letta and Conte. “That's okay”, said the real director of the operation, satisfied and even a little amused.
Ceccanti was its weaver every day. Operation, he reminds Radio Radicale, started from the bottom, in which the protagonist was the Transatlantic and not the leaders of the parties. Because that's where the big voters were. “The operation was born and took place entirely in parliament, while the newspapers focused their attention on the rooms of the external summits, it was there that we proceeded in concentric circles, with an ever-increasing and transversal number of individual parliamentarians towards the election of the president”, Ceccanti tells Radio Radicale.
"The turning point – he explains – came when the election of Elisabetta Alberti Casellati did not go through and even a group of centre-right MPs began to vote for Mattarella". He explains: "It is no coincidence that it was the group leaders who went up to Colle who asked Mattarella to be re-elected and not the party secretaries as happened with Giorgio Napolitano's encore".
In that case there was also a government to be formed, due to the encore of the current Head of State there was, however, in the background the possibility that the Draghi government, the president's government, would fall, in case Draghi himself or, says Ceccanti, a third figure compared to him and Mattarella were elected to Colle.
The National Emergency Executive fell six months later. The scenario has completely changed. There is a centre-right government. But, however one thinks, that figures like Ceccanti are now out of parliament is also one of the paradoxes of the deep crisis into which the Democratic Party has plunged .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/stefano-ceccanti-rielezione-sergio-mattarella-quirinale/ on Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:46:58 +0000.