Like Draghi, he gently treads Contiani and Contismo
Words, moves and appointments of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, seen by the political notist Francesco Damato
What the magistrates should do – speak in deeds – and instead do not do by exchanging more or less encrypted messages, is proving that Prime Minister Mario Draghi will and know how to do. Instead of chasing or chasing down those who deny him, for example, of having taken the place of Giuseppe Conte only to imitate him, he prepares his so-called discontinuity decisions in silence and announces them only when he adopts them. In short, he speaks in deeds.
So he did with Domenico Arcuri by removing him from extraordinary commissioner for the pandemic emergency and replacing him with the general of the Alpine troops Francesco Paolo Figliuolo and so he just did by removing the prefect, general and I don't know what else Gennaro Vecchione from the top of the secret services – or more precisely from Dis, acronym of the Department of Information for Security – and replacing it with Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni.
The idea of provoking “Conte's anger” or of giving him “a slap”, as some newspaper has rightly or wrongly titled, did not in the least restrain the Prime Minister. Who was only concerned with securing the consent of the head of state and informing the president of the parliamentary safety committee. Nor did the fear of the predictable story of the Fatto Quotidiano , the newspaper guardian, let's say, of the good memory of the previous Conte government, hold him back. That on the front page – without shooting it, I have to acknowledge it, more than a little, limiting himself to a little reminder – he wrote of "favor to the 2 Matteo", understood as Salvini and Renzi, but leaning more towards a "victory of the League" than of Italia Viva . E. in addition, complained that at Dis "Mancini stays and Vecchione jumps", despite having been renewed in November for another two years.
This story of Mancini who remains, with its functions that are certainly not of a simple 007, must have been particularly indigestible to those who shouted at the scandal for that video broadcast by Report, on Rai 3, by Mancini himself in conversation with Renzi in the square of an Autogrill at Christmas, certainly not to deliver a box of biscuits, as the former Prime Minister tried to explain. Who has minimized, let's say, the fact that in those days he was struggling with the still president of the Conte Council also for how he managed directly, without delegating anything to anyone, precisely the secret services.
The fact is, this time in the lower case, leaving a capital letter to the newspaper of the same name, that Marco Mancini in such good relations with Renzi, unfortunately both taken up by a well-equipped Report spectator forced to stop by his father's physiological needs, does not seem to be. an unfaithful agent to the head of the government on duty. Oh no, if one of the services means like Carlo Bonini has just reproached the former Prime Minister on Repubblica for having wasted time right next to Mancini. So at least I understood – and if I misunderstood, I immediately apologize to both of them – reading in commentary on the change of guard just decided at the Dis that this is "the moment when the Mediterranean returns and be the epicenter of unpredictable new relations of power and our country is called to make up for the time lost in the years in which, at Palazzo Chigi, more time was lost in giving an audience to Marco Mancini, in hunting down "political infidelities" in the apparatuses, rather than dealing with what Hell Vladimir Putin and Recep Tyyp Erdogan on Libya had in mind ”. And thank goodness – I add, as long as I have understood correctly – that the moment has arrived and Draghi did not let it slip away.
Massimo Franco was probably not wrong to write in Corriere della Sera , always commenting on the changeover decided at the top of the secret services, that "whoever continues to theorize the continuity between the current government and the one chaired by Conte from yesterday will struggle a little ' More". But I fear that those still in the Democratic Party will struggle no less, more particularly from Enrico Letta to Goffredo Bettini, continue to bet on the stability, reliability and whatever else of the relations with the Grillino movement because it has ended up in the safe hands of Conte. Which, on the other hand, seem to me less secure every day, and not only for legal or other disputes with Davide Casaleggio and his association. Whose greatest or most coveted heritage is even the list of members that Conte no longer knows who to ask. Or do you think you can only get it thanks to a guarantee Authority that could not fail to take all the time necessary for it to get over that improvised mess by the Genoese comedian.
Even in the delicate transition to the top of the Dis the poor Count was left alone in his anger or disappointment attributed to him by the newspapers, given the haste with which the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and the regent of the 5 Star movement Vito Crimi expressed their satisfaction : the first also for the possibility offered to him to place a loyalist in the post of secretary general of the Farnesina.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mario-draghi-conte/ on Sat, 15 May 2021 07:10:47 +0000.