Does the Democratic Party of Letta want to saw the Draghi hypothesis at the Quirinale?
What can the words of the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, hide against Matteo Salvini's League? Italics by Paola Sacchi
With the now systematic offensive of Enrico Letta against Matteo Salvini, accused of having "held a council of ministers hostage" on the tax bills, and now extended to the League in general branded as "a caricature of politics", it started in reality is the electoral campaign of the "new" Pd for the Quirinale? That is, the attempt to block the way in a year, in the mother of all battles in politics, to a possible candidacy of Mario Draghi himself at the Hill, putting his government, born as the executive of "the whole country", to the long run with a heartfelt invitation to the unity of all political forces by President Sergio Mattarella, in objective fibrillation?
Certainly it would not be a courtesy even to Draghi himself who at that point would find himself weakened not only as head of the government but also for a possible race to the Colle. And certainly it would still be a way to try to prevent the center-right, which could converge on that candidacy, from exerting a weight, Draghi or not Draghi, on the election of the new tenant of the Colle. In short, that climate of unity born on the rise of Draghi at Palazzo Chigi would be broken to try to open the way again to a left or center-left President. And that "camp", as we know, has been around the Nazarene for some time already very crowded with "quirinabili" aspirants, among which the chronicles and background have long included the same Romano Prodi, praised by Letta as his mentor in some passages in the his debut speech to the secretariat of the Democratic Party. If so, the left, the reaffirmed alliance of the Democratic Party of Letta with the Five Stars, a choice that risks marking a new division with Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva, will still have to deal with the numbers that give new weight to the center-right also. among the great voters of the Regions, of which 14 out of 20 are in the hands of Salvini's coalition, Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi. That behind the now systematic attacks of the new secretary dem on Salvini and the Lega, central shareholder of the executive of national salvation, the race to the Quirinale is for now a doubt, a question. But the extent of this offensive increasingly fuels certain mischievous interpretations in the Roman “Palazzo”.
In the debut interview given to the newspaper Il Tirreno , from his Tuscany, Letta seems to make a qualitative leap in his anti-league attack line where one can now see the method. Giancarlo Giorgetti himself, Minister of Economic Development, brings up the decisive piece, also for the consolidated personal relationship between the number two of Via Bellerio and the premier, of the Draghi-Lega axis, when he says that Salvini would have made a pro-European turn " after a coffee with Giorgetti ”. Moreover, Letta also nonchalantly affirms that maybe "in a month, over another coffee", he would not be surprised if Salvini "will go back to what he was before". So, are you already speculating or even hoping that the League will leave the government? Nobody intends to bring the intentions to trial, but it cannot fail to strike the naturalness with which the new secretary of the Democratic Party also takes this hypothesis into account, after the heartfelt appeal of Mattarella himself to all political forces to join a government of national salvation to overcome the health and economic challenge of the pandemic. Unless the Democratic Party has decided to unload its deep identity crisis on the destinies of the country. Why then yes that the "new" Democratic Party would run the risk of fully confirming what Letta himself said he wanted to fight: "a party of power".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-pd-di-letta-vuole-segare-lipotesi-draghi-al-quirinale/ on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:21:25 +0000.