The government majority is a bit shattered on the ESM
Scope and effects of the ESM's rejection in the Chamber. Francesco Damato's italics
One is spoiled for choice among the various aspects, all paradoxical, of the sensational failure remedied by the ESM, or European state-saving fund, in the Chamber amidst the explosion of both the majority and the opposition. Aspects of a political, continental, institutional and parliamentary nature in this season of the end of the year, characterized by the precedence due to the budget law to be approved by 31 December to avoid the use of the so-called, debasing provisional exercise.
HERE IS HOW THE CHAMBER VOTED ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE ESM
Overwhelmed by the Senate precisely on the side of the budget law, and then also in the process of the constitutional reform of the prime ministership, defined by the prime minister as "the mother of all reforms", the Chamber took great revenge by claiming the rejection – with 144 votes against 72 and 44 abstentions – of the Mes. Which instead seemed destined for ratification – in the logic of the so-called "package" – after the agreement between the economy ministers on the new European stability pact . From which Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, although the last to intervene in the remote summit, had yesterday boasted, or had in any case assured that Italy had achieved "a lot". Or enough, in particular, in terms of gradualness, until 2027, in the process of recovering from debt, being careful not to let the logic of austerity prevail over the even more necessary logic of development. Without which there are no parameters or deadlines that can be respected in the Union by a country like Italy.
THE VOTE OF LEGA E FRATELLI D'ITALIA IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF FORZA ITALIA
Evidently that "much" felt or guaranteed by Giorgetti, and shared by telephone by a prime minister in bed due to the seasonal flu, must not have appeared as such to Giorgetti's own party, and to the leader Matteo Salvini. Who boasted of having made the Northern League deputies vote against the ESM in line with the negative position taken in past years. And for the sake of coherence, the "brothers of Italy" of the incumbent and appeased prime minister also voted against. Which could, or even should feel denied or at least displaced like Giorgetti, by the deputies of her party. I won't talk about the Forzistas who abstained because it would be like shooting at a Red Cross ambulance, as their party has been widowed by its founder Silvio Berlusconi for more than six months.
CONTE'S INCONSISTENCY
I'm not even talking about the inconsistency of Conte, who voted and had his people vote against the ratification after having asked for an honorary jury against Meloni, who had accused him a few days ago of having authorized the signing of the amended ESM treaty in 2021 wrapped in the "darkness" of a government crisis that is not yet open, as claimed by the prime minister, but still to be opened, in any case in embryo.
THE POSITION OF PD AND FORMER THIRD POLE
The only ones who were consistent in their yes to the ESM were – it must be recognized – the deputies of the Democratic Party and of the former third Renzian-Calendian pole. But it is a minority, a field not as wide as imagined by Elly Schlein, but very narrow.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-maggioranza-di-governo-si-spappola-un-po-sul-mes/ on Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:18:06 +0000.