The task rested with Casellati, not Fico (by P. Becchi and G. Palma on Libero)

30 January 20213 years ago babelfish

Article signed by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma in Libero of 30 January 2021:

The fish stinks after three days. And after three days of consultations, the stench was felt. Mattarella said that there is a majority like the current one, which however must be verified , so in the evening he gave an exploratory assignment to the Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico . But why precisely in Fico if the verification of the majority must be made in the Senate? It is in Palazzo Madama that there is a "numerical" problem, not in the Chamber. Of course, Fico is a point of conjunction between the yellow-red forces, but in this way the Head of State – in the absence of an adequate majority – has shown him the way to the birth of the new government, exactly as he did with the Count bis .

There are those who think that Fico is basically an expression of the party that won the political elections three years ago, the M5s. We specify . In truth, the M5s did not win the elections, it is the first party with the relative majority of votes, 32.7%, but the electoral law – the Rosatellum – also provided for coalitions between lists, so much so that the coalition the most voted was the center-right with 37% of the votes. Neither the M5s nor the center-right alone had the numbers to govern, but both – as a party and as a coalition respectively – had finished first. The center- left coalition, on the other hand, with its 22.8%, came last (and today it is in government).

After the elections of 4 March 2018, Mattarella tried to put together the center-right and M5s, giving the first exploratory assignment to the President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, expression of the center-right, but the attempt failed because Di Maio did not want to go to the government or with Forza Italia nor with FdI. The second attempt was precisely the exploratory assignment to Fico, to put together M5s and Pd, but when things seemed to be done Renzi broke the bank. Then the yellow-green government was born , original and experimental, between the first party on a national basis, the M5s, and the first party in the most voted coalition, the Lega. That government fell after fifteen months and surprisingly Grillo and Renzi, with the help of Mattarella, invented the yellow-red executive. In both cases the numbers were there and were those of the absolute majority, with Conte first "sovereign" and then "pro-European". Transformation? Opportunism? History will tell.

Last night Mattarella, after three days of consultations, gave an exploratory assignment to Fico. To do what? To see if the Speaker of the House is able to identify an absolute majority in both branches of Parliament within the perimeter of the center left . In short, an attempt to put Conte back in Palazzo Chigi supported by the yellow-red majority which, however, accounts in hand, is no longer there, even with the notorious "builders". And then again with Renzi. In short, the “old fried cabbage”, Giorgio Hegel would have commented.

Faced with the disintegration of the Conte bis it would have been more appropriate for the Head of State to have returned to reflect on the electoral results of 2018, conferring a first exploratory assignment to the second position of the State, the President of the Senate Casellati , exactly what they last night. all the center-right leaders asked if the crisis was resolved with an institutional assignment. To do what? To try to see if the whole center-right (the most voted coalition on March 4, 2018) had managed to find the numbers in Parliament today. With who? With anyone who had declared himself available, then with Renzi, with the Democratic Party or with the party that came first in the elections, the M5s. Instead, the President of the Republic has chosen to give Fico an exploratory assignment, de facto tracing the way for a new government with the old majority. A political decision that is not neutral at all.

Why not start with the President of the Senate instead of the President of the House? After all, if the attempt can make it Fico, we don't see why Casellati could not have done it. Where is it written that the new government must still remain within the perimeter of the center-left majority? If Mattarella, as he said, intends to verify the existence of the yellow-red majority, it means that that majority no longer exists, otherwise he would not have had the need to verify it. In short, it is forcing the situation to favor one side against the other.

We tried an original experiment, the yellow-green government, it failed; a second traditional experiment, a center left, also the failed one. Why not start again, then, from the center-right which as a coalition had won a lot of votes in the elections ? Unfortunately Mattarella has chosen differently. Yet at the end of Conte I, when Salvini even withdrew his mistrust, he was not given any chance by Mattarella to mend with Conte. Making Conte mend with Renzi is now his goal. Incoherent and inexplicable behavior. The President of the Republic seems to have lost some of his institutional clarity. Maybe it will be the years. Who knows. But this decision of his is truly surprising.

by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma

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