As Salvini, Meloni and Berlusconi discuss on Draghi at Palazzo Chigi
Positions and divisions in the center-right on Mario Draghi premier.
Perhaps this is "precisely the moment" because the Lega, the first Italian party based on the consultations and polls after the 2018 political elections, definitively breaks down that wall of prejudices built around it, to which it has objectively lent and lends its side its placement in Europe with the German nationalists of Afd and the French of Marine Le Pen. The center-right on Mario Draghi's government is multi-voiced, torn between the yes of Forza Italia, the abstention of the Brothers of Italy and an aperturist Matteo Salvini, with what could even become a yes, albeit very conditional. Salvini said: “Neither yes nor no a priori, first I have to understand what Draghi proposes, a high-profile character not like the ones before”.
Salvini, struggling with a unitary effort as a needle of the scales, could make his own the concept expressed by the other "Matteo" (Renzi). The leader of IV replied to those who reproached him that this was not the time to open the crisis, as he himself reported, “this was the moment”. And then, returning to Salvini, if not now when to take back the revenge on that much derided Papeete, by Renzi himself who leveraged the so-called “pro-European non-credibility” of the Northern League's “captain” to give the way to Count 2?
A government of all against one and therefore against the whole center-right, whose yellow-red majority, however, was shipwrecked under the blows of Renzi himself "on the contents" only a little more than a year and a half later.
Some newspapers speculate Salvini – who is also struggling with the North wing of the pro-Draghi party, represented by Giancarlo Giorgetti and Luca Zaia – towards the yes to the former president of the ECB. But if this is the case, his appears as a very conditional yes, not only to the requests to lower taxes, not to touch 100 and to unblock construction sites but above all to the possibility of going to the vote.
The Northern League leader insists on asking for it in June, before the white semester starts. But the contrary position, especially due to the pandemic crisis and the tight deadlines of the Recovery plan, of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is clear. And the premier in charge Draghi drew up yesterday at the Quirinale, underlining with firm tones but also with a slight emotion the drama of the moment, for Italy a "recovery plan" against the pandemic and the economic crisis, which does not seem to be that of a few months.
Draghi, hoping for the unity of political forces, with that "great respect" with which "first of all I will address the parliament", has also in fact underlined the concept that the "extraordinary instruments" put in place by the EU are funds whose destination all political forces must count. And, moreover, that Mattarella has called the "high profile" figure of the former Frankfurt number one into service for only a few months is something hardly imaginable for everyone.
But in yesterday's note in the Corriere della Sera, the quirinalist number one, Marzio Breda, certainly not officially attributing this intention to Colle, also writes that now a government is expected to last at least a year. And if this were the case, then Salvini could ask in fact, without formalizing this request for obvious diplomatic reasons, that we go to vote in 2022, immediately after the election of the Head of State An election that could see Draghi himself on the Hill, just as he once hypothesized the number two Northern League player Giorgetti who knows him well?
In this crucial political deadline, the League and the center-right could play a significant role at that point. But Meloni, after having indicated abstention during yesterday's summit as a point of fall for FdI, displacing the League above all, then firmly clarified that the request was and remains "elections". A move that of abstention dropped a bit surprisingly on the table of the coalition's top that now risks making the League appear if it abstains as a sort of stewardship that follows the minor but very fierce party, given on the rise by the polls, which however at the same time they confirm the first place for Salvini's League.
In all this, there are also problems for Berlusconi who, precisely in order to hold a unified position of that center-right of which he is the founder and also to prevent his own Forza Italia from splitting, maintained a favorable position until yesterday evening to Dragons, but wait. And he therefore advised to first look at the cards at the consultations table of the man he himself indicated to the ECB and proceed step by step. But a request made with a joke at the top, with which he was connected by Provence, was leaked by the Knight on the subject of justice: "That there is no justicialist again".
Berlusconi from Provence certainly reads that totonomi already left on possible ministers. And that of Paola Severino also circulated among these. Which would not have put him in a good mood, "but not because of the former minister, of the person as such but because that law on non-candidacy applied retroactively to him bears the name, although this certainly not by Severino's will, there was, in fact, the vote in the Senate on forfeiture ”, explain careful observers of blue things.
Meanwhile, Renato Brunetta is lined up for the yes to Draghi and with him Mara Carfagna, Andrea Cangini and other parliamentarians. Brunetta even went so far as to ask that the groups get together. But, in the meantime, Salvini seems to be in the less easy position but also as a tip of the scales who, even in internal relations with the centrist parties (Maurizio Lupi, Antonio De Poli) and Giovanni Toti's "Cambiamo", appears increasingly determined to formally affirm that role as a coalition leader, so far based only on the numbers of his consensus. The position of the League could be decisive, especially in the Senate, if the Five Stars do not open to Draghi, even if the pentastellato wall begins to show glimmers.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-discutono-salvini-meloni-e-berlusconi-su-draghi-a-palazzo-chigi/ on Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:43:00 +0000.