Who aims at Draghicide
Conte's revenge and Moscow's aspirations. The intervention of Francesco Provinciali
Only two years ago, on the occasion of the conferral of an honorary degree at the Cattolica of Milan, the then former President of the ECB Mario Draghi outlined the connotative traits of the political decision-maker, summarizing them in these three qualities: knowledge, courage and humility. It does not seem to me that this founding inspiration has failed in him and in his government action: in the caravanserai of Italian politics, made up of fictions, betrayals, shaky alliances, turncoats, programs that were first shared and then disregarded, where murky figures of demagogues roam able to trade their dignity to the point of denying themselves, its coherence shines crystalline and intact.
An upright and competent man cannot accept the game of the three tablets, a phrase from 'The day of the owl in Sciascia' comes to mind: “it was not Zecchinetta, they played zecchinetta”. As if to say that the cards were too mixed up in a coalition of national unity that was supposed to pursue the good of the country and some cheaters served – secularly 'to God and Mammon'.
“We do not have the freedom to decide whether we should do what needs to be done to fulfill our mandate. It is our duty to do it ": with these words Draghi had dictated a categorical moral imperative that Conte did not acknowledge, it was clear – as Di Maio himself confirms – that he had been plotting for some time, waiting for the most suitable moment for the turnaround of the Movement of which he is head politician, to the point of leaving the Senate for not voting what he had approved in the House.
Since politics became news – as Martinazzoli said – everything and its opposite is possible. It matters little if the chancelleries and leaders of the free world have questioned themselves about this wicked gesture: in any democratic country a man of international stature, of the culture and experience of Mario Draghi, a degree from Sapienza and one from MIT – the undisputed temple economic education – they would have kept it tight.
One comes to smile thinking that a quisque de populo can criticize a leader like Draghi for having acted without the necessary competence. We have heard words and affirmations uttered, even tautological and contradictory claims advanced because Draghi – as a farsighted person and a true gentleman – has never used different standards in dealing with the forces of the government team. For this reason, having betrayed the pact by the 5S, he considered the failure of the conditions that had generated it. The analysis of Reputation Science , which found 74% of Twitter users with negative 'sentiment' in the cf. di Conte, while according to the survey by Izi Spa 53% of Italians are opposed to immediate elections, just as it would be useful to reflect on the words of Peskov, Putin's spokesperson: "the crisis is an internal affair in Italy … but we hope for a government not subservient to the USA ".
Many hominins have blown the fire to stigmatize Draghi's loyalty to the Atlantic alliance, to blame him for having guessed the economic moves useful to put Russia in crisis, starting with the collapse of Gazprom. In a brilliant analysis Laura Aprati, on Rai news , moves more than a suspicion that Moscow has a hand in the Italian government crisis, too many coincidences also in the rest of Europe: Johnson, Macron, Scholz, Rutte and now Draghi .
Certainly Conte's move – which is generating defections in his parliamentary group and will perhaps be scrutinized by the demagogic practice of online voting – risks causing the Movement to explode, was conceived from the very day of the handover to the Draghi government. A personal revenge: we are too used to attributing objective value and credibility to the official reasons for certain choices: there is a subjective and personological dimension that remains underlying and is made up of feelings, in this case of antipathy, rancor, desire for revenge.
For this reason, the assessments of a careful and refined political observer like Marco Follini seem ungenerous. It is not possible to put forward the hypothesis that Draghi was not able to manage relations with the forces of the ruling coalition. It was rather the parties that turned into ropes and congregations of "lost dogs without collars", unmanageable from the inside, let alone from Palazzo Chigi. Draghi is a prime minister, not a caregiver.
The party power that is expressed through the names of the leaders in the electoral symbols is the denial of merit, while the management of alliances (including government) is always predicated and too tied to the moods and behavior of one's boss. There is no government leader who can guarantee loyalty to the coalition in a reassembly where sudden sparks and maddened splinters explode. Let us return to the "virtues" indicated by Draghi: everyone has to deal with his own conscience. It is perhaps thought that a presidential regime can resolve conflicts but we see how difficult it is to compact alliances on widely agreed, voted and shared programs.
Many hope that Draghi will rethink it, for the good of the country: pragmatism is also a virtue, if combined with consistency and far-sightedness.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-punta-al-draghicidio/ on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:47:43 +0000.