I’ll explain Renzi’s real institutional gaffe at the Quirinale
Renzi's request for an ad hoc explorer, implying at least a judgment of insufficiency on Mattarella's consultative skills, can well be considered an institutional, political and human gaffe towards the Head of State.
Devil of a man, Matteo Renzi made another one of his, returning from a trip to Riyadh that sparked the imagination of the poster with that title "The phoenix arab". He has offered his side to all his opponents, who are not few and are often even surprised by the ball they receive from him in this interminable game of the government crisis formalized with the late resignation from the Prime Minister. That could have been enough for the leader of Italia Viva to sing victory. Instead they weren't enough. And even a half-hour phone call received before going up to the Quirinale for consultations with Giuseppe Conte was not enough, although he had more or less publicly proposed not to have more relations with him due to the harshness of the criticisms received, and of the 'accuses of being by now a "vulnus" for democracy.
THE INTERVIEW BETWEEN RENZI AND MATTARELLA. AND THE FICO HYPOTHESIS
What is Renzi doing to you at this point, after boasting about the phone call by revealing it? He goes to Sergio Mattarella and asks him not to give Conte the task for the formation of a new government because first the availability of the grillini and the Democratic Party to reconstitute with an exploratory mandate, preferably to the grillino president of the Chamber Roberto Fico really a majority with the Renzians. But, holy God, Mattarella was about to consult the delegation of the Democratic Party led by the secretary Nicola Zingaretti himself and had already scheduled for today the consultation with the delegation of the 5 Star Movement.
WHAT RENZI AL QUIRINALE SHOULD NOT SAY
The request for an ad hoc explorer, implying a judgment at least of insufficiency on Mattarella's consultative skills, can well be considered an institutional, political and human gaffe towards the Head of State. That, if he did not react by sending him instantly to that post, perhaps only held back by the memory of having been politically sent to the Quirinale by Renzi in 2015 with the launch of his candidacy, even at the cost of breaking the famous "Nazarene pact" with Silvio Berlusconi, proved to be a Job of our times.
THE QUIRINALE BETWEEN MATTARELLA AND PERTINI
I don't know what the President of the Republic will do at today's conclusion of the consultations: whether or not he will overcome Job's patience by giving an exploratory assignment to Fico, or to someone else, as some newspaper already expects, or not. I think I can imagine, having known and attended him, what Sandro Pertini would have done. Which I believe was, despite his bad character, which he also boasted about, the most popular of the presidents of the Republic.
WILL MATTARELLA CHALLENGE RENZI WITH AN ASSIGNMENT TO CONTE?
Pertini would have given Conte, eager to receive him, the task of trying to solve the crisis with the formation of a new government. And so he would have challenged Renzi to take responsibility for a veto in the negotiations of the re-appointed president that he did not have the courage to clearly put in the consultations at the Quirinale. Which is not yet or only a museum but the seat of the Presidency of the Republic, complete with flags in the wind when it blows, and shining cuirassiers.
ERRORS AND SLIDES BY RENZI
It is a pity that the former Prime Minister so often manages to lead his just battles badly, as happened in 2016 with his appreciable constitutional reform, ruinously personalizing the confirmatory referendum and transforming it into a plebiscite on his leadership. A real shame or, if you prefer, a waste of energy and opportunities.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-la-vera-gaffe-istituzionale-di-renzi-al-quirinale/ on Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:10:21 +0000.