Conte’s tribulations
What happens to the Conte government? The Scratches of Damato
In my opinion, a name is missing from the list of "heroes next door" – as someone has happily defined them – just awarded by the head of state the honors of officer or commander or knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic for having distinguished themselves in cases of "civil commitment and dedication to the common good". He, the award-winning president Sergio Mattarella, deserves to be added to the 36 Italians by birth or adoption selected at the Quirinale. Which is preparing to sign and promulgate by tomorrow, in order to avoid the so-called provisional exercise, the budget law that the Senate is dismissing with the procedure of trust in the same text approved last Sunday by the House, also there with the hygulatory procedure of trust. But he is preparing to do it -temo, making constitutionalists turn up their noses- even after the last mistake that the government had to admit, caught in flagrant mess by the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.
To the latter a very embarrassed Deputy Minister of Economy Antonio Misiani, of the Democratic Party, had to acknowledge the inconsistency, to say the least, contested with a provision of the budget by applying which the supplementary contribution of medium-low incomes, established by the Renzi government to an extent of 80 euros per month and brought to 100 by the government in office, they would actually be reduced to 50 euros. The newspaper that best tells the story on the front page, unlike the generic and somewhat hermetic references of others, is Il Tempo with a title that could not have been more explicit: "Cut Renzi's 80 euros", right – someone may observe – to increase the already strong temptation he has to provoke the crisis in the former prime minister.
The budget at this point should have been changed. But, lacking the time for another parliamentary passage by tomorrow, the government decided to remedy it immediately after the promulgation of the provision with a specific decree law. In short, Conte counted – pardon the verbal quarrel – on the benevolence, patience, understanding, indeed heroism – as I said at the beginning – of the President of the Republic.
Faced with this modest yet significant political and institutional episode, the ease attributed to the Prime Minister by his most ardent supporters is somewhat out of place. Which are of course those of the Fatto Quotidiano , according to which Conte would have consulted with the "director" of the Pd Goffredo Bettini and would have decided to practically take that pain in the ass by Renzi, or rather to literally send him to that place with an acronym " Fuck you " of something to oppose to the "Hello", also acronym, of a document prepared by Renzi to challenge the government policy. In any case, in the Senate there would already be dissidents from the center-right and from the Renzian party itself sufficient to guarantee trust anyway.
The political situation has reached such a point of tension and confusion that even Mario Monti, recently pleased with Conte for having softened, if not changed, the grillini on the side of anti-European sovereignty, invited him, in an interview with Corriere della Sera , to finally clarify what has not yet been understood after more than two years of government: what idea he has of Italy and what objectives to assign them for the next five or ten years.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-tribolazioni-di-conte/ on Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:59:07 +0000.