Conte’s pink ideas for the Quirinale show the stars at Fatto di Travaglio
How Giuseppe Conte moves and what he thinks of the 5 Star Movement for the Quirinale
If the idea attributed to Giuseppe Conte at the same time by Repubblica and by the newspapers of the Riffeser Monti group – La Nazione, il Resto del Carlino and Il Giorno – were true of transforming that of the Quirinale from a political problem to a gender problem, striving after more than 75 years of republican history to send a woman to the Quirinale, would not be discarded, or to be laughed at. Or to be liquidated, as he does in the role of any male chauvinist, the old Paolo Cirino Pomicino, who in the newspapers of the Riffeser Monti group denied that there is a woman around the Colle for authority, experience, electoral investiture – as if Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, for example, had never been elected to Parliament or only to a City Council – and so on. Come on, Paolo.
In a moment of great political confusion, as if that mixed with fear caused us by the viral pandemic were not enough, with the center-right and center-left deployments both in the ball – one in some way seized by a candidacy practically reserved by Silvio Berlusconi, despite longtime friends throw at him every day invitations to desist due to the improbability of a success, and the other burdened by a list of underground wannabes that looks like the telephone one – it would not be bad to speed up the race to the Quirinale by having it run this time on female heels.
If Conte really came up with this idea, I repeat, it would not be bad. And the former Prime Minister and now president, more modestly, of the 5 Star Movement, or what is left of it, did well not to anticipate it as usual Marco Travaglio, who who knows how he would have managed it. Not even Enrico Letta, the secretary of the Democratic Party with whom Conte is led to converse first, can pretend to come down from the pear tree, so to speak, because his debut at the Nazarene, after the Parisian "exile" preferred to frequent his colleague still Matteo Renzi departed, waving exactly the same flag to remove both parliamentary group leaders from his political formation and replace them with women. Of which his predecessor Nicola Zingaretti had forgotten when negotiating with Draghi – albeit within the narrow limits of the circumstance – the formation of the new government.
However, Conte must not make too big errors of assessment in assuming which women at the Quirinale could also be good for the center-right, which – his goodness – has recognized necessary to the large majority required by the Constitution for the election of the head of state: not only wide with two thirds of the votes in the first three ballots, but also with half plus one of the plenum in the following ones. It is a qualified majority, not at all "simple" as often even professional politicians continue to define it, not yet aware that the simple majority is that of voters and that's it, net of those absent, random or wanted.
If it is true – as the Republic attributes to him – that Conte considers attractive to the center-right, as well as Berlusconi's former minister Letizia Moratti, now vice president of the Lombardy region, and Elisabetta Belloni , the diplomat in charge of the secret services, also l former Minister of Justice Paola Severino, I fear you are very wrong. Maybe a good lawyer, or a lawyer for many of Berlusconi's friends, Severino is still the author of a law conceived with Monti at Palazzo Chigi and applied in such a way, even retroactively, as to cost the Senate seat to Cavaliere in 2013, with a vote that the then president of the assembly Pietro Grasso wanted even clear, like the classic icing on the cake. Berlusconi will also be exaggerating with his climb to the Hill, which just today got him other even teasing friends and admirers of the sheet , but we must not abuse him either.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-idee-rosa-di-conte-per-il-quirinale-fanno-vedere-le-stelle-a-travaglio/ on Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:38:04 +0000.