Because 2023 will be an insidious year for the Meloni government
The real challenges of the Meloni government in 2023. Guiglia's notebook
After the turning point of the manoeuvre , in the usual climate of tension and political-administrative chaos that always accompanies this "dress rehearsal" for the government in office, the year of challenges arrives. Faced with which Giorgia Meloni will no longer be able to enjoy two circumstances so far favorable for her: the period of benevolence, known as the honeymoon, which the citizens grant to the new executives. And an opposition divided into three and with the main force, the Democratic Party, lost, waiting to be refounded with the leader to come.
But the economy and citizens' expectations certainly do not depend on today's stormy relations – due to the budget law – between the majority and the three oppositions, nor on the inevitable competition at home from the right-centre coalition. Where Giorgia Meloni's role, image and number of parliamentarians end up prevailing over Matteo Salvini's "spectacular" politics and Silvio Berlusconi's tarnished strategy.
In 2023 it will be the reforms, investments, work – in a word and acronym: the Pnrr – that will give the measure of what the government will be able to do beyond the controversies. Knowing it, Giorgia Meloni has already anticipated that she wants to bet her cards on energy policy and on the transformation of Italy from a country that pays for the effects of the lack of industrial policy for years – and therefore at the mercy of other people's gas taps – to a nation- guide in Europe for sourcing, research and domestic production.
Therefore, a great bet that will be there for all to see, and not just the parties. Which will be accompanied by another theme: the institutional renewal of the Republic with the simultaneous introduction of presidentialism and differentiated autonomy in the state system. Easier said – and in fact the majority all say a great deal – than done. Both because the direct election of the head of state will find the fierce contrast of the M5S and a meanwhile revived Pd, and because attributing new and strong responsibilities to the Northern Regions that require it, cannot disregard the principles engraved in the Constitution.
And it will be very difficult to find harmony between the two. Especially if Fdi and Forza Italia will be the champions of unity and the League of autonomy.
Therefore, an insidious year arrives for those who govern the third largest economy in Europe at the time of the still serious international situation of war and of an Italy called to solve its old and new problems.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/governo-meloni-sfide-2023/ on Sun, 01 Jan 2023 06:57:28 +0000.