Count in the balance
How is the Conte government doing? Facts, polls, turmoil and interpretations
More than from the President of the Republic in the Giannelli version on the front page of Corriere della Sera – in "total red" as not even the government has managed to order all Italians, from pajamas, socks and slippers to hair – the prime minister must perhaps expect help for the success of the anti-pandemic measures just arranged and illustrated to unified networks with the usual delay, and among the equally usual protests, from the weather conditions. Which, fortunately for him, are not good and should help keep Italians at home, calm and faithful to the traditions contained and for too long ignored by the proverb of "Christmas with your family, Easter with whoever you want". But it must also be said that the last Easter was also ruined by Covid , with the Pope forced to that unusual spectacle of the Basilica and the square in front of St. Peter's desolately empty.
PAGNONCELLI'S POLLS ON COUNT
In addition to the bad weather forecasts, help came to Conte from the polls of the Institute of Nando Pagnoncelli, for the Corriere , which made him recover three points of approval compared to November, despite all the pushes of Matteo Renzi towards the crisis and the reasons or pretexts, according to tastes, that the Prime Minister himself gave him, giving the impression of wanting to do everything by himself, and in a somewhat botched way. Rather than with Conte, almost as if to absolve him and encourage him, as they have been trying for days in the Fatto Quotidiano , to send Renzi to that country in the Senate, as happened with the then vice president of the Council and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini in the session of 28 August 2019, the public polled by Pagnoncelli preferred to take it out on the government as a whole, downgraded by three points in popular approval: exactly how many the Prime Minister would have earned.
THE EDGE OF CASELLATI AGAINST COUNT
From this point of view, if things really were the case, the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati would have gone against the trend by making no difference between the government and the Prime Minister and rejecting them both in the meeting with journalists for the end of year wishes. It was an attack – and not even the first, to tell the truth – that the newspaper of the Berlusconi family with the usual vehemence of the director Alessandro Sallusti translated on the entire front page, with the verification of the majority still to be completed, in a " eviction notice to Conte ”, moreover suspecting prior information from the head of state and, all in all, his consent, given that the president of the Senate is his potential alternate.
THE SCENARIO AND THE ROLE OF MATTARELLA SU CONTE
If I had been in Sallusti, to tell the truth, I would have been more cautious and would have limited myself to waiting for events, although I also admit that the President of the Republic would have very little to be pleased with for the fraying of the political situation and relations between the sides. That precisely in the Senate of President Casellati, for example, yesterday resulted in a brawl that ended up sending a parliamentary commissioner and a clerk to the infirmary, both in charge of guaranteeing order in the hall of Palazzo Madama and surroundings. They have now also come to blows.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-in-bilico/ on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:26:41 +0000.