Draghi resigns? Panic in parties …
What is whispered in the corridors of the Roman palaces about Draghi. The Scratches of Damato
I will not say with the usual irony – like certain false death announcements – that the rumor collected by Doubt about the resignation that Prime Minister Mario Draghi intends to present to the President of the Republic at the end of the year is at least "premature" considering completed its task with the approval of the financial statements. That others with the same government or with a new one will be able to manage by also having a recovery plan already prepared within the deadlines agreed with that generous financier who turned out to be the European Union, after the disasters of the pandemic.
Perhaps less premature is the "panic" announced following the rumor of the crisis cultivated, imagined, threatened and so on by the still unperturbed Draghi. The parties, as we know, now all live with nerves on the edge of their skin.
Approximately expiring but not yet expired, and therefore well seated at his quirinalist desk, although among the boxes in which he himself may have begun to arrange the things to take away, Mattarella could impatiently improvise a round of consultations, check the impracticability of other formulas, after all those tested after the 2018 elections, and replace the resigning Prime Minister with the trusted and faithful Daniele Franco, leaving him also the Ministry of Economy.
Thus, among other things, the head of state could also allow Draghi to participate more freely in the so-called race to the Quirinale, of an often unpredictable duration, exempting the constitutionalists from the disputes in which they have already miserably sunk into the hands in which a Draghi still in office at Palazzo Chigi should resign, between an outgoing head of state and himself incoming, and things of various other ceremonial: those more comedy than anything else, fortunately lacking a tragedy body.
It may be, however, that Mattarella lets himself be taken not by fear but by the scruple of setting up yet another government before leaving. And, rather than managing the crisis that suddenly found itself between the feet and the moving boxes, you bring forward the end of your mandate with your resignation by a few weeks. In that case, unless the President of the Senate gets a shot of speed as deputy head of the state, and therefore able to close the crisis on the spot by ordering Draghi to remain in his place, the scene would pass all and alone to the so-called "Big voters". So it happened in 1992, when Francesco Cossiga ran away from the Quirinale, or a few weeks later when Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, elected in his place, unraveled the problem of the crisis in his own way, eliminating the main competitor at Palazzo Chigi, who was Bettino Craxi, with a half certification of presumed impracticability entrusted to a head of the Public Prosecutor's Office, unusually admitted, and post, to the practice of consultations.
Here I stop and surrender with the humility of an elderly political reporter unable at his age, and even with all the respect that Mattarella and Draghi deserve, to make them protagonists, actors, extras and who knows what else in a thriller: maybe a Draghicide as a continuation and revenge of the Conticide still fresh off the press, so to speak. And in spite of that headline by Libero on "Draghi or Berlusconi" on the Hill, but the former with double the approval of the other.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-si-dimette-panico-nei-partiti/ on Thu, 11 Nov 2021 06:46:47 +0000.