I’ll tell you how Mattarella and Draghi scrutinize the turmoil of the 5 Stars
Mattarella and Draghi struggling with the convulsions of the 5 Star Movement on the reform of Justice. The Scratches of Damato
I do not know if the rubbing of hands with which I was told that Mario Draghi reacted with a Roman spirit to the news just received of the 1600 sub-amendments to the proposed changes to the government filed with the Justice Commission of the Chamber dealing with the reform of the criminal process. And, more specifically, of the brief prescription introduced in the code by the former Grillino Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede. Which, if it remained as it is, for crimes committed from January 1, 2020, would allow the prosecution to keep the condemned and even acquitted at first instance on trial for life with a naturally appealed sentence. The government instead proposed the "inadmissibility" after 2 or 3 years of useless waiting for the appeal sentence, according to the seriousness of the crimes, or after 12 or 18 months of unsuccessful passage to the Supreme Court.
“An immoral filth,” shouted the unsubscribed from the 5 Star Movement Alessandro Di Battista from Bolivia, as if morally fine filth could exist. A danger of "impunity" protested Giuseppe Conte, who does not despair, once he becomes head of the Movement, to recover the "generous young man" Di Battista, although he said he could rewrite at least if the grillini were to leave the government. For now, however, they have limited themselves to more than half of the 1600 sub-amendments to the "immoral filth": exactly 916, or 917 according to some newspapers.
If true – and not just plausible, I repeat – Draghi's Roman rubbing of hands would be understandable on the street, or the highway, that a similar mass of changes to government changes to the reform of the criminal trial would open up to resorting to the question of trust. by the Prime Minister to ensure not only and not so much a minimum of discipline or loyalty in the majority, after the unanimous vote of the Council of Ministers on the amendments, but a swift and safe parliamentary path, decidedly anti-obstructionist, to a provision without the final approval of which by September, between the Chamber and the Senate, Italy risks losing European funding for the recovery plan, conditioned by a calendar of reforms.
Draghi would have, in truth, still other reasons to rub his hands well, this time for the signals coming from the Quirinale. Where, for example, they have denied the rumors collected or created by the Fatto Quotidiano on the "concerns" of the President of the Republic for the possibility opened by the government amendments to the reform of the criminal trial that Parliament indicates the priorities of the mandatory action each year penalty provided for by the Constitution. Of these concerns, Conte's "unofficial" newspaper, as Stefano Folli usually calls the one directed by Marco Travaglio in Repubblica , had made a strong effort to develop an offensive against the "minister of impunity" and ensure that the former Prime Minister he would not be isolated in the critical position expressed on the issues of justice to Draghi in the 40-minute meeting at Palazzo Chigi.
Speaking of isolation, it is that of a part of the 5 Star Movement of which the quirinalist of Corriere della Sera Marzio Breda warned "the risk" if it "deluded itself to gain a political advantage by taking dissent against the Cartabia law to its extreme consequences ”, Denying for example the possible trust placed by the government, and therefore betting on a crisis, even at the cost of bypassing and displacing the“ realist ”Count warned by some newspapers on the occasion of his visit to Draghi. The chrysaioliers, extremists, irreducible and anything else under the five stars would find themselves isolated – wrote Breda, probably reflecting sensations felt at the Quirinale – "also with respect to the sentiment of public opinion" emerged, for example, from the considerable turnout at the banquets set up by leaguers and radicals for the collection of signatures in support of the six referendums prepared on the problems of justice.
If one were to think, always under the five stars, of a Mattarella weakened by the so-called white semester, due to the impossibility from August 3 onwards to dissolve the Chambers as his mandate is about to expire, Breda has perhaps collected and sent back a signal from the Presidency of the Republic to mariners, let's call them that. He wrote, in particular, that "if Draghi still counted on a majority, he would have a green light from the Quirinale to continue his work". And the prime minister would certainly have a majority because, at the point where things have come, it would be impossible to imagine the compact five-star parliamentary groups in a disruptive initiative against the government. Conte would jump again before becoming one, once Beppe Grillo put him back on track with the sea bass from Bibbona.
This being the case, I believe that Mattarella will be able to celebrate his 80th birthday in complete tranquility on Friday – best wishes, President – and face his last and white semester at the Quirinale in the Olympics, if a re-election does not await him, as already happened in 2013 his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mattarella-draghi-movimento-5-stelle/ on Thu, 22 Jul 2021 05:49:11 +0000.