What is said of the relations between Mattarella and Conte
Interlocutory meeting yesterday at the Quirinale between the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. But what does it mean?
I recommend to you, so to speak, that " interlocutory " character that the Quirinale wanted to give to the meeting that the Head of State had with the Prime Minister, fresh from the trust with a rather relative majority obtained in the Senate and from a confidential consultation with the leaders of the remaining parties of the government coalition, after the break with Matteo Renzi. Who will also have emerged weakened by the non-crisis crisis, declared by the Prime Minister himself, although not open for his refusal to resign, but still remains in the field with those abstention votes without which the opposition of center right. And the crisis would have had to open for lack of, indeed denied trust.
As reported in the Corriere della Sera by Marzio Breda – the only one or among the very few who manage to extract some significant monosyllable or equally significant facial expression from those he ironically defined Sergio Mattarella's "prisoners of war", who are required to respond to requests for information and clarifications by opposing only "name, grade and serial number" – Conte climbing to Colle was able to collect from the head of state not advice, after all those already provided and perhaps not listened to, but "worries". Which frankly cannot be considered unfounded in the face of the “narrow and adventurous” trust – always words of Breda – obtained by the Prime Minister in the Senate. Where – incidentally, not fishing in the article by the quirinalist of Corriere della Sera – we no longer speak or not only of the " Conte-Mastella government ", from the consort of the mayor of Benevento who voted in favor while her husband continues to seek other help for the future, but from the "Conte-Ciampolillo government", from former grillino senator Alfonso, who arrived at the very last moment to the rescue of Palazzo Chigi and known for the belief that with soap everything can be cured: from the disease of the olive trees at Covid. He is one who, after having conquered the front pages of the newspapers with his race, also enjoyed running as Minister of Agriculture, collecting the interim hired by Conte after the resignation of Renziana Teresa Bellanova.
To return instead to Breda and his correspondence, let's call it that, from a Quirinale who now knows as the rooms of his house, Mattarella is "tormented by the problem of governance" because the ministerial team of Conte, unchanged or reshuffled, "will be put to the test every day ". And “the search for numbers in the classroom risks being a torturing via crucis”.
Given the safeguarding of the most urgent economic measures, whose approval has already been guaranteed by the opposition, what will happen – asked Breda – in a few days, when the Keeper Bonafede, head of the grillina delegation to the government, will present his "divisive" project of justice reform? Will the government "seek impervious trust even then?"
In short, Mattarella will remain at the window, where Conte wanted to put him in and leave him, refusing with his resignation the formal opening of a crisis that is up to the President of the Republic to manage. But will he or will he have to stay there until when? His “moral suasion is running out”, Breda warned, while the cartoonist Emilio Giannelli, also in the Corriere , attributes his opposition to the Andreottian theory of “better to live than to die” by which Conte would be tempted.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-si-dice-dei-rapporti-fra-mattarella-e-conte/ on Thu, 21 Jan 2021 07:42:02 +0000.