How and why Draghi leaves the race at the Quirinale
What's new in the media rush to the Quirinale
Not at all intimidated by the "hard work" that the manifesto at the helm of the government attributed to him on the front page, amid European concerns about the size of the Italian public debt, albeit with concrete prospects now of economic recovery, and a majority too large to be really compact, as indeed it was not, or was even less so the more restricted of the two editions of the predecessor at Palazzo Chigi, Mario Draghi told Giorgia Meloni in his office as Prime Minister that "here there is a lot to do until to 2023 ". That is, until the ordinary conclusion of the legislature that began in 2018, without anticipated dissolution dreamed or feared, according to tastes, by those who think underneath that Draghi, succeeding Sergio Mattarella in February, can or even wants to immediately renew the Chambers to create in the new Parliament, slimmed down and rebalanced compared to the one elected more than three years ago, a majority perhaps less large than today but more cohesive.
The words addressed in more than an hour of meeting with the representative of the only declared and practiced opposition to his government, pleased however to have found in the Prime Minister "a real and attentive interest", very different from that reserved for the center-right by Giuseppe Conte in the months preceding his fall, are equivalent to a clear parade of Dragons from the race to the Quirinale. And this admitted and not granted that he really thought of participating in it, as perhaps only the newspapers and interested parties have attributed to him, politically, more to embalm it on the highest hill in Rome than to promote it.
The removal of a real candidacy of Draghi for the succession to Mattarella could as much facilitate one I don't know if more of imagination or courage like that of Marta Cartabia , the current Minister of Justice who would then be the first woman to preside over the Republic, as to make it even more the pressing underway on Mattarella is stringent, not even so much behind the scenes, because you accept an additional effort with a substantially completed re-election. Which would allow the system a more solid and realistic succession not in a Parliament that is now expiring but in the new one, which will inevitably be much more different from the current one, between a substantial reduction in seats, both in the Chamber and in the Senate, and the now a foregone end of the so-called "centrality" of the 5 Star Movement. Or in any case it will be called after the refoundation entrusted by Beppe Grillo in person to Conte. The success of 2018 will certainly not be repeated, when the grillini conquering the relative majority, like the DC in its day, became the pivot of all possible combinations of government.
The prospect of early elections is also denied by the now concrete and personal interest of both Conte and the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta in the supplementary political elections arriving in the autumn with the administrative elections to replace, respectively, in Rome the deputy grillina Emanuela Del Re, on his way out to offices abroad, and in Siena the Piddino senator and former minister Pier Carlo Padoan, designated as the presidency of Unicredit. It would frankly make no sense to aspire to a parliamentary seat lasting a few months, rather than the almost year and a half remaining of the legislature.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-e-perche-draghi-si-sfila-dalla-corsa-al-quirinale/ on Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:15:00 +0000.