Here is who will block Draghi’s way towards the Quirinale
Who wants (and who doesn't want) Mario Draghi at the Quirinale after Sergio Mattarella. Paola Sacchi's Note
The race for the Hill is in fact becoming the mother of all the battles of the left to try to stem, with its own personality at the Quirinale, a possible center-right government. Which, according to all the polls, could be the winner of the 2023 elections. Backgrounds, scenarios flourish. And so it will be until the fateful appointment of January 2022, when the new Head of State will have to be elected.
Needless to turn around, this is the real stakes behind the daily pestering of the Democratic Party of Enrico Letta, which plants its flags, despite not appearing among the three points for which Mario Draghi's national emergency government was born. According to Letta himself, according to what we read in an interview given to La Stampa days ago, he should remain until the end of the legislature, therefore until 2023. Therefore, it should not be argued that Draghi should be the new Head of State. Always assuming that the former president of the ECB wants it.
It is obvious that the Democratic Party is against early elections in 2022, that it needs to reorganize. And, moreover, the Head of State Sergio Mattarella has already said clearly that this is his last mandate. But, whatever it is and however it will go, the problem is perhaps for the left in the very name of Draghi.
The premier, for his history, for his curriculum, is not a "biased" figure as, instead, Romano Prodi defined himself in an interview with Corriere della Sera , excluding, but according to careful and malicious observers not too much, one of his race to the Colle.
In the event, however, as all the polls have photographed so far, the center-right were to win the next round of elections, could for a left defeat be a non-partisan figure, like Draghi, the "counterpart" to cling to on the Hill? Of course not. It already seems to hear the alarm against an "unreliable right" on who will monitor the implementation of the Recovery plan. And, therefore, in the name of this Draghi should remain at the head of the government and a personality more attributable to the left go to the Hill.
An article in La Repubblica was significant yesterday, which even speaks of alarm in the palaces of Brussels if Draghi were to leave the leadership of the government. Of course, nothing against the premier, on the contrary. But the fact remains that this is certainly not a viaticum for a possible candidacy for the Colle di Draghi. Indeed, it sounds like a stop from the left mainstream. And instead Draghi, as Daniele Capezzone pointed out yesterday in an interview for La Verità with the League's deputy secretary Lorenzo Fontana, could be from Colle the international guarantor of the center-right one day in government. A scenario obviously seen on the left as smoke and mirrors.
Not surprisingly, Matteo Salvini, after having blatantly told the Democratic Party in the Senate that he and the League will not be thrown out of the government, has also already announced in an interview on TV, at the Costanzo show : "I will fight with all my strength so that a left-wing personality does not go to the Quirinale ”. That is, the mother of all the battles of a left that in view of a possible defeat in the elections would have the last chance to play right on the Hill.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-chi-sbarrera-la-strada-a-draghi-verso-il-quirinale/ on Tue, 04 May 2021 07:49:35 +0000.