I’ll tell you about the hypocrisies about the government crisis
The great comedy of misunderstandings, ambiguities and hypocrisies that has become the government verification commented on by Francesco Damato
THE TENSIONS BETWEEN CONTE AND RENZI
In the great comedy of misunderstandings, ambiguities and hypocrisies that has become the government verification, during which almost everyone has said one thing while thinking of another also of opposite sign, let's say that Sergio Mattarella succeeds in the miracle announced a little. from all the newspapers. Which is to bring out from the dispute between Conte and Renzi, or vice versa, the matter from which everything basically started, at least in words: the so-called Recovery plan, that is the plan for the use of the huge European recovery funds destined for the Italy.
THE MOVE OF MATTARELLA
The President of the Republic is not wrong, for heaven's sake, to consider this plan of such national interest, in the economic and social crisis aggravated by the viral pandemic, that he wants to put it – as they say – in safety. That is, from asking the majority parties to approve it anyway, contenting the Renzians – albeit mocked as surrendered by the Fatto Quotidiano – of the many changes already obtained with respect to the original text.
THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
If the crisis were to open without the prior approval of this plan, the European Commission would in fact remain, in the management of the recovery funds, without an interlocutor in our country, beyond the ordinary administration of a resigning government. But frankly there is very little ordinary in a state of emergency gradually extended.
THE PUFFS OF RENZIANI
The Renzians, who have already swallowed the budget of 2021 in order not to give the pretext of the so-called provisional exercise to the usual international speculations against the securities of the huge, now very huge Italian public debt, could also swallow it as a "last act" – titled the Repubblica – the Recovery plan thanks to the changes obtained. The original text allocated only and miserable 9 billion euros to healthcare despite the pandemic, increased to 18, i.e. doubled, without drawing even one euro from the European state-saving fund known as Mes in order not to incinerate what remains of the very contrary Movement 5 Stars. Former Economy Minister Giovanni Tria asks himself skeptically in every interview where the government has found a lot of money overnight.
THE SCENERY
Deprived of this blessed or cursed plan, the government verification would be left with the no small task of agreeing, predictably with the formal passage of a crisis, a so-called "end-of-term program", naturally ordinary, to be completed in 2023. However, it is the case that among the problems at the end of the legislature there is a political and institutional one as big as a house: the election of the President of the Republic in a year, expiring the mandate of the current one, as Mattarella himself recalled – perhaps not by chance – in his end-of-year message to unified networks, and standing in front of a window of the Quirinale. I wonder if this upset majority, despite a renewed “upside down” Conte government, as a disappointed and worried Marco Travaglio writes, is able to tackle a similar issue without exploding. He would probably set it aside as a fuse for the next crisis. Moreover, it would not be the first government majority to dissolve on the Colle road. But we'll talk about it again.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-le-ipocrisie-sulla-crisi-di-governo/ on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:15:40 +0000.