The crisis of the Conte government was a mess. Indeed a scam
But when and where did this crisis really open that Conte avoided formalizing by refusing to resign, as perhaps the President of the Republic expected to be able to manage it? The Damato Note
But this blessed or cursed crisis of government, according to taste, has there been or hasn't it? And consequently it must be understood as closed or continued after the confidence that Giuseppe Conte gained in the Chamber without problems, with a majority even above the threshold of the absolute one, but in the Senate with a relative or simple majority. Which is sufficient legally but politically not decisive because it is too skimpy, and not even guaranteed in all commissions.
THE CASE OF THE TWO FORCISTS PRO GOVERNO CONTE
The 156 votes of Palazzo Madama are not only five lower than the absolute majority of 161, necessary for legislative passages of a certain importance, but inclusive of five spurious for their origin. In particular, two forceists who joined at the last moment contributed to it, including Mariarosaria Rossi , a very powerful and ultimately disputed former secretary of Silvio Berlusconi, and three senators for life. Who, for heaven's sake, have the same rights as others but the drawback of not having been elected, therefore of not representing any of the political forces vying for leadership of the country in the polls.
GOVERNMENT COUNTS AFTER TRUST IN THE SENATE
The missed votes this time could come later, following a "small small" government, as the Republic defines it in the front page title, or "halved", according to the nation , but remained in office and therefore attractive, supporters say politicians and media of the Prime Minister. Who therefore hope in the deferred success, let's say, of Conte's heartfelt, if not desperate, appeal to the "willing", as inspired by Don Luigi Sturzo, the progenitor of the dissolved Christian Democracy, he wanted to call the experienced "responsible" by Berlusconi in 2010, to defend himself from the abandonment of Gianfranco Fini, amid the insults and protests of his opponents. The Grillini, today the driving force of Conte, branded them as "turncoats", "corrupt", "traitors", proposing a constitutional reform to bind the parliamentary mandate.
THE DETERMINING ROLE OF RENZIANI
But, waiting for the new arrivals, the majority abandoned by the Renzians – now also relative to the opposition with the abstention adopted both in the Chamber and in the Senate, where however if they were added to the no they would have produced a devastating tie for the government , for which they feel "decisive" – must deal with its intrinsic and heterogeneous weakness in the "quicksand" felt by the manifesto . And above all it must clarify its origin, because it is the daughter of unknown persons in the political registry. Did it arise from a crisis, as governments usually do, or from what else?
WHY DID NOT CONTE SIGN UP?
Conte spoke to the Chambers of a "serious and incomprehensible open crisis" with the exit of the two Renzian ministers from his second government and motivated in a press conference by Renzi himself with attacks of such harshness and disloyalty towards him as to make him irrecoverable. But when and where did this crisis really open to avoid the formalization of which Conte stubbornly refused to resign, as perhaps the President of the Republic expected to be able to properly and dutifully manage it? Without the intervention of the head of state still in distress, the ritual consultations, the conferral of one or more offices as prime minister, we have all witnessed a crisis-not a crisis, that is, a mess, if we don't want to call it cheating.
WHAT MACALUSOS WOULD HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THE CRISIS AND THE PD
My dear friend Emanuele Macaluso died in time to spare himself the epilogue of this political spectacle which, knowing him, would certainly not have appreciated by lashing once again the contribution given by his former comrades from the Democratic Party and surroundings.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-crisi-non-crisi-del-governo-conte-e-stata-un-pasticcio-anzi-un-imbroglio/ on Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:04:33 +0000.