How Draghi weaves (well) the government web
What Mario Draghi does and says according to the political notist Francesco Damato
Admittedly "blushed" with emotion or embarrassment at the praise just received in Barcelona from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and from the promoters of the prize awarded to him for participating in the European integration process, Mario Draghi would soon be consoled, as soon as he sets foot out of the way. Italy, if it were taken at Palazzo Chigi by moments of despair or, worse still, of concern for the often too low level, to say the least, of the political debate in Italy. Which is increasingly characterized by the anxiety of all parties to rediscover or give themselves an identity, often at the expense of the government in whose majority they participate more out of fear, perhaps, than out of conviction. It is the fear of early elections felt, for example, during the last crisis, despite the almost defiant air with which the bitter defenders of the second Conte government, or the supporters of a third Cabinet of his, spoke publicly about the dissolution of the Chambers. in the face of Matteo Renzi's hated, undisciplined, unpredictable and whatever else party.
But to read Corriere della Sera today , in particular an article by Francesco Verderami, Draghi does not even need to look abroad to console himself with the appreciation he receives at every international appointment. Or to read the authoritative Financial Times – he who doesn't need a translation – for encouragement. Or to dwell on the latest survey by the American Morning Consult institute, which placed him in second place in the world ranking of the heads of state or government most appreciated by their citizens, as Verderami himself remembered in Corriere . According to which by now Draghi, in spite of certain chronicles, and the usual alarms or wishes of the Fatto Quotidiano , still contemplating his predecessor Conte, and eager for his return shortly due to a resounding failure of his successor, would have managed to impose his "Peace" even in the most difficult meetings of the Council of Ministers. In short, everyone, even the apparently most irreducible and suspicious, would end up in Draghi's "spider web".
I also believe that the Prime Minister did not even realize this spider web, so much did it come spontaneously, naturally, produced by his usual way of working. The Prime Minister hears everyone, for heaven's sake, or shows that he hears them, but then decides practically on his own, as he just did, for example, assigning Alfredo Altavilla to the helm of what will be the new Alitalia, picking him up among the collaborators of the late Sergio Marchionne, or correcting, if not denying, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza on the latest mess of vaccinations. Or putting dogmatic economists "in their underwear" with his "pragmatism", as Il Foglio headlines in turquoise on the front page. Or by having the newspapers of the Riffeser group say, always on the front page, that fortunately, in any eventuality "he'll take care of it". Or finally to corroborate the cartoonish irony of Stefano Rolli, which he cites as proof of the functioning of the heterologous vaccination to which Draghi has just personally offered the hiring already made by him of Grillo and Berlusconi in the majority of the government.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-draghi-tesse-bene-la-tela-governativa/ on Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:15:44 +0000.