Quirinale: Mattarella, Draghi and Columbus’s egg
Times and methods of succession to the Quirinale. The Scratches of Damato
Even if the signature is not among the most authoritative, with all due respect for the person concerned, the competence is more administrative than constitutional and the placement of his article – on page 13 of yesterday's Fatto Quotidiano , without a shred of recall at first – certainly does not encourage to credit him too much under the five stars, the former councilor of state and professor Filoreto D'Agostino has shown that he does not at least share the timing of the substantial cuts proudly made by the grillini to the parliamentary seats.
D'Agostino acknowledged that a Parliament destined to change so much in its next edition, moreover – without the professor having pointed it out, I think for delicacy – with the grillini first destined to return certainly not in the surprising percentage of 2018, almost from old and very central DC, it is now too de-legitimized to be able to elect a truly new President of the Republic next February, capable of representing national unity for the following seven years. About which article 87 of the Constitution speaks about the figure of the head of state before listing his powers, including that of the early dissolution of the Chambers which he loses in the last semester of his mandate, therefore commonly called white and just started .
It didn't take long, in truth, to foresee this inconvenience. When I took the liberty of pointing this out in 2018 to an exponent of the 5 Star Movement who I do not name because he could disdainfully deny me since I do not have witnesses, I felt that the observation was dismissed as "nonsense". On the other hand, these were the days in which the Grillini believed they had set up a government of legislature with Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister, actually led by the two vice presidents Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini. And of an ordinary term of office, destined to last five years, perhaps preparatory to another in which the Movement could govern alone.
What should be done then when Mattarella's mandate expires, given the delegitimization of the current Chambers sanctioned with a lot of confirmatory referendum? Simple, indeed very simple: "reconfirm for one year" the outgoing president, while pretending to confirm him for another seven. One year would be enough, and it would be more, to allow Parliament to elect a fully legitimate Head of State in 2023. It is Columbus's egg, even before D'Agostino's. It remains only to convince Mattarella, who is already busy looking for a rented house where he can move in February from the Quirinale accommodation, possibly close to his daughter's. But perhaps it will also be necessary to convince the president in pectore dei grillini Giuseppe Conte, half tempted by a promotion / removal of Draghi. And perhaps more in agreement with today's Fatto Quotidiano , which has already distanced itself from D'Agostino by publishing, always in the background, an article of the opposite sign by the not even titled Silvia Truzzi. The title even reads in red: "Balle". And he adds: "Mattarella's encore seems inevitable, but it is not like that at all". In short, the outgoing President can continue to look for a house to enjoy the famous rest he spoke about in recent months to a schoolchild, justified by the effort objectively ascertained to this anomalous current legislature, including political follies and pandemics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/quirinale-mattarella-draghi-e-luovo-di-colombo/ on Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:11:55 +0000.