Errors, fixations and ambitions by Giuseppe Conte
Challenges, knots to be solved and hidden aims of Giuseppe Conte who resigned
What are the elements that distinguish politics from any other discipline? In the past there was talk of autonomy, to indicate a subjectivity that cannot be contained in the too narrow enclosure of a narrow positivism. Well, in an attempt to answer this question, there seem to be two qualities of a purebred politician: his ability to evaluate the real power relations in the situations in which he is called to operate and the more appropriate choice of times to react. . All Togliatti's duplicity was placed in this scheme.
Looking at Giuseppe Conte's latest moves, it doesn't seem that these rules have been respected. Let's start with the evaluation of the balance of power. He had calculated them, with some success, in the count, which followed the resignation of the representatives of Italia Viva. Absolute majority in the House, relative to the Senate. The accounts seemed to be correct, but it was, instead, an error of perspective. It was not necessary to stop at that evening, so excited. It was also necessary to count what was to happen shortly thereafter, in view of the resolution on justice: a session in which that majority of 156 votes would evaporate like snow in the sun.
If this was the most probable evolution, then here is the second mistake. Conte didn't have to wait. Above all, do not hesitate, leafing through the daisy for thirteen days. Having won the victory against his hated rival, he had to go immediately to the Quirinale to resign. A noble gesture not in the sign of weakness, but of responsibility. The search for a larger majority to cope with a complex phase, both from an epidemiological and an economic point of view, which was the one that the Government would have been forced to face.
Perhaps it would not have changed much, but certainly the esteem towards his person would not have suffered the repercussions that have already been felt in these days. On the contrary, he would have shown that stature that distinguishes a true politician from a technician or a jurist, who happened to be a bit by chance near Palazzo Chigi. And it would have, in some way, helped dispel precedents that are not in favor of outsiders. In the past, Mario Monti had tried to monetize, on a political level, his experience as Prime Minister, giving rise to the birth of his own personal party: that “Civic Choice” which lasted the space of a morning.
Will Giuseppe Conte treasure that teaching? He will try to set up his own personal party, whose logo has already been identified: “Together” or “With You”, as Beppe Grillo let slip. Again, the timing was not the happiest. It was – it is true – mere indiscretions. Not confirmed by those directly responsible. But in these cases we operate as on the stock exchange: you buy and sell on rumors. Waiting for the definitive solutions means losing money. And both of his supporters – the Democratic Party on one side and the 5 stars on the other – have since then begun to question themselves,
A suspicion destined to poison the atmosphere a little. Cooling the minds. Although the work continued to create the group of managers from the foam of the sea. At the moment not received, but tomorrow is another day. If he is born he will have the face of Bruno Tabacci , born in 1946, the almost absolute record of six legislatures behind him, without considering his past as president of the Lombardy Region and a thousand sub-government posts. The purest representative of that caste so hated by the 5 stars at the time of the election campaign. Today their finest crutch. Consistency of that intransigence every other day, which could, however, be paid dearly in terms of electoral consensus
There is, then, another obstacle in the way of the new government. To see it right now it is necessary to look far. Conte was forced to resign to save Alfonso Bonafede and his idea of justice. A hairy justicialism, which only meets the favor of Piercamillo Davigo and a few others. At other times such a bulky minister would have been easily neutralized. And instead it was Luigi Di Maio himself, in Lucia Annunziata's broadcast, who vetoed. Bonafede can't be touched – he reiterated, making a fierce face – if anything, the government falls. And so it was. In the past few days, but tomorrow what will happen? Will Bonafede always be the new / old keeper of the next government? But, above all, of which government?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/errori-e-ambizioni-di-giuseppe-conte/ on Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:41:22 +0000.