What is behind Enrico Letta’s no to Mario Draghi’s move to the Quirinale
The Scratches of Damato
Also this edition of the Communion and Liberation meeting in Rimini ended up crossing the deadlines of internal politics and lowering the high, or even very high, themes proposed at least formally by the organizers to their level. Who, on the other hand, know very well the fate of their appointments, to which not by chance they call all the protagonists, and also some minor actors or extras of the Italian political show. CL people are men of the world, so to speak. Who can now boast, perhaps pretending to be surprised, and even embittered, that the classic stone in the muddy pond of the so-called white semester in front of the Quirinale has left from their meeting.
The stone was thrown, in particular, by the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta – guest in Rimini with the leaders of the other parties of the government majority, with the exception of Silvio Berlusconi represented by Antonio Tajani – supporting the stay of Mario Draghi at Palazzo Chigi “At least until 2023”, that is, until the ordinary expiry of the legislature and the elections for the renewal of the Chambers. Which means, as the more or less professional decryptors of political messages immediately warned, a big no both to the transfer of Draghi from Palazzo Chigi to the Quirinale, to replace Sergio Mattarella at the end of the seven-year term, and to the early dissolution of the Chambers by who will in any case succeed the outgoing president of the Republic.
In theory, having not gone further than that "at least" in his words in Rimini, the secretary of the Democratic Party could be attributed a willingness to join those who have already hoped for a term re-election of Mattarella, as already happened in 2013 with Giorgio Napolitano. The Piddino mayor of Pesaro Matteo Ricci recently spoke about it with journalists, waiting for Mattarella to visit his city, and explaining how this would serve to postpone the election of the successor to the new legislature, by more legitimate Chambers or, if you prefer , less delegitimized than the current ones: the last, among other things, of almost a thousand parliamentarians, against the total of six hundred of the new ones, among elected deputies and senators, as a result of the reform wanted by the grillini and ratified with the referendum called "confirmatory" .
It is known that the mayor of the Marches then found a way to repeat his opinion directly to the head of state, but the reaction was not known: if the same or different from the confession he made in recent months to a school group that he did not see time to take a well-deserved rest in February even as a senator for life. Which was not exactly the same – for example – for his friend and party colleague Francesco Cossiga, who as a former President of the Republic continued to actively participate in politics as a not at all detached actor.
Matteo Ricci is a man who for some time now has been keen to present himself as a man faithful to "party discipline", who preferred, for example, to the temptation, even if confessed, to support at least some of the referendums on justice promoted by radicals and leaguers. This could authorize us to think, I repeat, that the idea of a Mattarella converted to an implicit term re-election, and therefore resigned to suspend the search for a rented house to move to in February, possibly close to his daughter, does not displease Enrico Letta. . Who, however, could also be held back on this path by the fear of giving his party an image of weakness, as if he had no candidates for an ordinary succession to Mattarella, which perhaps they crave instead of being put on the track.
Enrico Letta himself could play the game by betting guess who? But even on Matteo Renzi, who in 2014 dethroned him from Palazzo Chigi, trusting the General of Finance Michele Adinolfi intercepted on the phone to consider the then Prime Minister in the wrong place, not suitable for him, having instead better qualifications for the Quirinale. But then Enrico Letta was not yet old enough to aspire to it. Now he would have it, with his 55 years on August 20.
Curiously, however, a candidacy of the secretary of the Democratic Party to the Quirinale, although the preferential relationship established by him with the new president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte for a wide center-left etc. is known, may not suit the grillini. Among which the one "at least until 2023" by Draghi at Palazzo Chigi has spread the fear that Letta wants to keep him at the helm of the government even in the new legislature, perhaps to make him realize the recovery plan until the last stage – in 2026- the path of the reforms agreed with the European Union to guarantee the loans obtained, including debts and non-repayable allocations.
The ironic but not too much murmur against a Draghi “until 2028”, that is, for the whole of the next legislature, has already been raised from the usual Fatto Quotidiano. The director of Domani, Carlo De Benedetti's newspaper, was surprised to suspect that Letta has no credible candidates for the presidency of the Council after the 2023 elections, perhaps assuming that the center-right will win. And Giuliano Ferrara has put his opinion on the sheet giving the "idiot" to anyone who does not understand that, with the current times, in Italy but also outside, Draghi on the Quirinale hill for 7 years, with his personal prestige and all the rest , is worth much more than a Draghi on the hill, let's say, of Palazzo Chigi for a year or so, and who knows what later.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/letta-draghi-quirinale/ on Sun, 29 Aug 2021 06:00:58 +0000.