What is said in the (former) government majority about Draghi’s future

Facts and reactions after the resignation of the prime minister, Mario Draghi, not accepted by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella. Paola Sacchi's note

Lega and Forza Italia now point the index not only on the Five Stars but also on the Pd. In the morning he attacks the League's deputy secretary, Andrea Crippa: "If Italy has fallen into chaos it is the fault of the 5s and the Democratic Party". The number two of Silvio Berlusconi, Antonio Tajani: "If you go to vote, the responsibility lies with the Democratic Party and the 5s". And after a meeting with Giancarlo Giorgetti, Roberto Calderoli and the governors Luca Zaia, Attilio Fontana and Massimiliano Fedriga, the League announces what Matteo Salvini said at the summit: “We will do the good of Italy and the Italians”.

An evident way of the government center – after the dramatic day yesterday with the resignation of Mario Draghi not accepted by Sergio Mattarella – to immediately put a stop to attempts by the Democratic Party and what remains of the pentastellati of a recomposition of the framework in which the left with all the nuances and the grillini become the dominus again.

And if everything as it seems is falling towards the early vote, the center-right government makes things clear: the responsibility is not ours. "The left and the wide field did devastating damage," Tajani goes down hard. The center-right of the government yesterday witnessed in silence the very strong pressure that came immediately from a group of members of the Democratic Party, from the secretary Enrico Letta to ministers, on the resigning premier called to stay for the recomposition of the current executive or for a Draghi bis. And this even happened shortly before or almost simultaneously with the note from the Quirinale in which it was announced that Mattarella had not accepted Draghi's resignation and postponed him to the Chambers next Wednesday.

The news of the communications of the resigning premier to parliament on the frantic day yesterday had even arrived "from ministerial sources", as some press agencies reported, even before the Quirinale announced it, as always usual. An anomaly that cannot have gone unnoticed by the parts of the Colle. And, in any case, such a strong pressure from the left risks appearing a discordant note where the outgoing premier is pulled by the jacket.

While yesterday from the Lega, in a note attributed to sources in Via Bellerio, solidarity with Draghi came after the grillino tear in the Senate and the relentless offensive by Giuseppe Conte who, as they say in circles close to the pentastellsto world, now "has decided to save what can be saved for his party, to put himself in a position of struggle to recover votes in view of the elections ”. And again: “Has he succumbed to the hard wing? But if he is the hard wing! ”.

Silvio Berlusconi had already said in a note yesterday morning before the situation worsened with the resignation of Draghi: "We respectfully await the decisions of the premier and president Mattarella". The Cav had however stated: “The Five Stars have turned their backs on the Italians. If we go to vote it will not be our fault ”.

It seems to have reached the epilogue of the national emergency government, where the left, the Democratic Party then led by Nicola Zingaretti who saw in Conte the "point of reference for progressives" certainly entered more reluctantly than Forza Italia and was then displaced by the entrance of the League.

Because that was born as a national emergency government to which everyone was called to contribute, an executive with no political color.

And yet, as Riccardo Molinari, the leader of the League leader in the Chamber, remembers today, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, "this government has been generous with the 5s and the left, starting with the reconfirmation of citizenship income". While issues such as autonomy and pensions when the Fornero law comes into force, flagship issues of the League, have remained pending. And the Democratic Party began the battle on issues such as cannabis and Ius scholae after five years, "divisive" issues that "were not on the government agenda".

It seems that the curtain is about to fall on what was the national emergency government of all, or rather, almost all, with the opposition only Brothers of Italy by Giorgia Meloni, who naturally insists: elections.

Finally, around two in the afternoon today, the joint note from Berlusconi and Salvini arrives, harsh against the Five Stars with whom it is not possible to continue, it is stated. And it concludes: if we go to elections we do not fear them, but it will not be our responsibility.

It is a statement with a cautious tone but very worried about developments, agreed after a meeting between Berlusconi and Salvini, who brought together their leaders.

Here it is, in full: "Lega and Forza Italia take note of the serious political crisis triggered irresponsibly by the Cinquestelle which, as President Mario Draghi underlined, has undermined the pact of trust underlying government action".

---

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/maggioranza-governo-draghi/ on Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:32:20 +0000.