Are you sure that Mattarella and Draghi are in agreement on the reprimand in Parliament?

Why do not the accounts in Draghi's scramble to parties and Parliament. The post by Chiara Geloni, author of the blog Chiararagione

I dust off the blog because in this "dragons' curse" there are too many things that do not come back to me and writing them is a way of putting them in order. Of course, Draghi is right that this will no longer go on. Of course, as I think Stefano Folli suggests, a grooming today can also be a way to mediate tomorrow. However, I do not think that "grooming parties" can become a method of government. And in Draghi's arguments, and in the accounts I read, there are too many things wrong.

Meanwhile Mattarella. From Palazzo Chigi it is suggested that the Quirinale had endorsed and covered the "cured", and there is no reason to doubt it. The fact is, however, that the words and tones of Mattarella , on the day of his inauguration, were very different from those of the premier. The president made it clear that parliament must not be humiliated, that the reliance on trust and urgent decree has often been excessive and that this must change. In just one week, the Draghi government, which has the largest majority in memory, has placed the trust twice. The pace is around one confidence per week, one of the highest in recent years.

Then there are the facts. If all the majority, except the League, vote in a certain way on the Ilva reclamation, perhaps it should be taken into consideration that the government's position did not have sufficient consensus. Furthermore: perhaps it is inevitable that the premier if he has to groom everyone, but we are sure that differentiating as everyone except the League did on an unshared provision is just as unfair as making a blitz by voting on opposition amendments as Forza Italia and Lega did on raising the cash ceiling proposed by the Brothers of Italy? So why not recognize it?

Finally, the arguments. Sorry, but on the constitutional level Draghi is on the edge of the unacceptable. To say that the government is here to do things so the votes in parliament must be guaranteed otherwise you go home is at the same time a banality that applies to any government and a paradoxical intimidation, since until different opinion it is the parliament that it gives confidence to the government and not the other way around. To say that it is unacceptable that what the ministers vote then is not accepted in full by the groups is a tad too comfortable, since the premier knows very well that, as is his faculty, he has chosen the ministers. Answering "I do not care" to those who object that it is precisely to avoid negative reactions from the groups that it would be better to get the texts to the parliament more in advance is like a "I do not care" of not very pleasant memory. Not recognizing that there are deep political divisions and not giving dignity to the non-trivial differences between parties in a composite majority (on land registry, on taxation, on justice) is a sign of a mental rigidity that has little to do with politics. To deny any distinction to insubordination and whim is a gift to anti-political propaganda. Insisting not to change method, not to seek a new pact with parliament after a series of incidents along the way makes us suspect that we are not looking for peace, but a pretext for war.

There is, in certain press reports and unfortunately also in the words of the premier, a delight in never recognizing the reasons for politics, for the representation of interests, for the dialectic between parties that ignores the real faults of politicians. The many merits of Draghi and the objective limits of the current parliamentary representation cannot be denied. However, this is not enough to make the de facto commissioning of political life acceptable or to make a method of government based on threats and outbursts sustainable. The facts will prove it, before the articles of the opinion makers, if we continue like this. He jokes with fire who puts a spoke in the wheel of a prime minister like Draghi, but also those who pretend to govern against Parliament are joking with fire.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mattarella-draghi/ on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 07:50:46 +0000.