What will the Draghi effect be at Palazzo Chigi and the Quirinale
Visions, forecasts and scenarios of the constitutionalist Armaroli on Draghi and beyond
Paolo Armaroli wrote two books in five months from which I believe that the historians of this very strange, eighteenth legislature will not be able to ignore. That she has already reserved so many surprises in her first three years of life and who knows how many she will still be able to produce in the two that are missing from the ordinary deadline, in 2023, except of course an early termination in the last year, after February 2022. Not first, because from next summer the head of state Sergio Mattarella entering the last semester of his seven-year term – semester therefore defined as "white" – will not be able to make use of that formidable weapon granted him by article 88 of the Constitution. Which says: "The President of the Republic can, after hearing their Presidents, dissolve the Houses or even one of them".
"Reflective" as a constitutionalist and "curious" as a journalist, according to the qualities recognized in the preface of this second book by Enzo Cheli, professor of constitutional law, vice president emeritus of the Constitutional and academic Court of the Lincei, Armaroli told, explained, he even psychoanalysed the eighteenth legislature in some way by focusing his metaphorical binoculars on the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella .
He first scrutinized relations with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte – in the book released in October last year with the title “Conte and Mattarella. On the stage and behind the scenes of the Quirinale ”- and now those with Mario Draghi. Which, unlike his predecessor, did not arrive at Palazzo Chigi almost by chance, surprisingly designated by grillini and leaguers who had reserved a very close political control through the vice presidents of the Council, respectively, Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini.
Draghi no, he arrived at Palazzo Chigi on the direct initiative, I would say personal, of Mattarella at the conclusion of a crisis that was rightly defined by someone during his long gestation as "the craziest in the world": a crisis whose solution, decided by the boss of the State reflecting and looking at itself "in the mirror", as Armaroli happily imagined, helped to mark as clearly as it could not "the metamorphosis of a Republic". Which is also the apt subtitle of the book on which it dominates, on the cover a “ Draghi Effect ”.
Professor Armaroli has somehow bet on the relationship between Mattarella and Draghi to hope that from the current, third edition or convulsive "phase" of the Republic, it will pass to the fourth or return, if not to the best of the first, at least to the second. The merit of which, according to Armaroli, was that of having made the alternation of government between the center-right and the center-left practiced with bipolarism, more particularly between Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi. Although the latter, when it was his turn to go to Palazzo Chigi, was able or able to stay there for a maximum of two years, tripped by the allies in 1998 and 2008.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/quale-sara-leffetto-draghi-a-palazzo-chigi-e-al-quirinale/ on Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:05:28 +0000.