Center-right in search of the square for the government
Piazza della Cgil and Arcore summit: what happens in view of the formation of the center-right government. Paola Sacchi's note
On the one hand, the CGIL square, which with the presence of the pentastellated leader Giuseppe Conte, standard-bearer of an upcoming demonstration "for peace", of radical leftists who voted against support for Ukraine and NATO enlargement , at the demonstration alongside members of the Democratic Party (Enrico Letta goes to the CGIL headquarters for the anniversary of the devastation), puts the contradictions of a left halfway between radicalism and reformism into the spotlight.
On the other hand, on the same day yesterday, the summit of the center-right in Arcore, between Silvio Berlusconi, Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, the first after the September 25th victory in Politics, which tightens the bolts towards the government team. Although a new summit will be needed before the Parliament takes office on 13 October. Meloni in the morning had criticized the fact that, although it has not yet been formed, "they take to the streets against the Meloni government", but immediately specified that he was not referring to the CGIL demonstration, but to other left-wing demonstrations in recent days.
Maurizio Landini himself specifies that there is no connection between the demonstration and the unborn government. But the square objectively gives the image of a first test of the climate that the executive will have to face, starting with the demands on wages reduced by the crisis. In any case, yesterday gives us two very distant images of Italian bipolarism, although Fabio Rampelli himself, vice president of the Chamber and co-founder of FdI, on delegation from the party, goes to Corso d'Italia to show "solidarity for the cowardly assault than a year ago by Forza Nuova ”.
At the end of the meeting in Arcore, with a Berlusconi in the role of the noble founding father of the center-right, who will return to the Senate on 13 October after his ouster, center-right sources say: "The leaders discussed the upcoming institutional deadlines and the need to have a strong government capable of responding to the country's urgencies, starting with the emergency due to energy costs ". There are, as was to be taken for granted, the names of the ministerial boxes, but it is announced that "important steps forward have been made and it is the common will of the center-right to proceed as quickly as possible along the road for the formation of the executive".
According to the rumors circulated immediately afterwards, the now de facto premier in pectore Meloni would have asked the allies to act quickly in order to be ready for the serious Italian and international challenges. A novelty in the toto-names, which entrusts 4 ministries to Lega, 4 to FI and 4 to technicians, is the proposal attributed by rumors to Berlusconi of the current President of the Senate, Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, to the Ministry of Justice. Casellati has a prestigious lawyer curriculum behind her and has been in the CSM, of which she could become vice president as an alternative to the dicastery. But the ministerial risk cannot ignore the appointment of the presidents of the two branches of parliament which will both be center-right. Rumors continue to indicate Giancarlo Giorgetti (Lega) in the Chamber and Ignazio La Russa (FdI) in the Senate.
However, it is not taken for granted that this is the case because it seems that the actions for Roberto Calderoli, a historic Northern League player, are going up in the Senate and in that case Giorgetti would no longer be at the helm of the Chamber, but an exponent of FI. Antonio Tajani is always given on pole for Foreigners. As for the League, sources in Via Bellerio underline, after the Arcore summit: "The League clearly has its own government team and is ready, at the highest levels". The priorities of Matteo Salvini's party – it is clarified – are "the defense of salaries, pensions and the work of Italians, starting from a bill-stop decree which, given the European delays, can no longer be postponed".
It sounds like the confirmation of the conclusions of the two federal councils of recent days that asked for "a ministry of weight" for Salvini and then, with the group leader in Montecitorio Riccardo Molinari and the minister, deputy secretary Giorgetti, reiterated that "Salvini is the most suitable, the natural candidate for the Interior Ministry ".
However, it will end, it is clear that if FI is assigned a key ministry such as that of Foreign Affairs, the League, particularly allergic to technicians, which has more parliamentarians, being the second largest shareholder in the government, cannot fail to ask for another "weighty ministry" ”For its leader. Viminal or non-Viminal. In the toto-names for Salvini the hypotheses of many central ministries are made, from Agriculture to Infrastructure and also Labor. It will be up to the next summit to tighten the bolts even more to find the "square".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/centrodestra-alla-ricerca-della-quadra-per-il-governo/ on Sun, 09 Oct 2022 06:39:42 +0000.