Who and how Mattarella presses
What really happens between Conte and Mattarella, while in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine sul Quirinale says that … The analysis by Francesco Galietti, founder of Policy Sonar
Political apnea after this week's votes of confidence is just a moment of suspension.
Conte proceeds quickly with his plan: to strengthen the majority that supports him, widening it as much as possible, and to overturn the balance in parliamentary committees.
The constitutionalists and parliamentarians of the Democratic Party are already hard at work to see if there is room for restoring the balance in the committees.
The plan is not that great, but it is all that Conte can put in place right now.
Mattarella, who until now has given his support to Conte, is in trouble .
Conte would like to enlarge the Executive by decree because he knows he has to sate the appetites of his new political sponsors, but he doesn't want to know about resigning. Mattarella doesn't like the solution, which embarrasses him, but time is running out and Conte is pressing.
A first mine to defuse is the possibility that the Keeper Alfonso Bonafede, on the occasion of the report on justice scheduled for next January 27, is disheartened by the Renzians.
The agencies report a rather long but 'interlocutory' meeting between Conte and Mattarella. In the language of the palace masters, 'interlocutory' is very far from the adjectives that usually describe this type of conversation.
It is therefore likely to assume that Conte has been given an ultimatum. On the other hand, it is quite evident, even to the international observers and to the foreign chancelleries several times evoked with annoyance by Conte, that Mattarella himself is holding Conte up and running. Foreign newspapers, initially lukewarm about the Italian political crisis, have now begun to follow the Roman events assiduously.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine , in particular, is not limited to criticizing Conte only for the management of the Recovery Plan, but raises the bar and also calls on Mattarella, to whom it attributes the responsibility of maintaining a 'minority government' that ' dangling from vote to vote, and in the midst of the pandemic.
The replacement of a group with clear pro-European connotations – Italia Viva – with a mixed salad lacking consistency is therefore considered by Mattarella. And what's worse, the game doesn't seem to be worth the candle since the criticisms of the Recovery Plan are explicit and heavy. The pressure is shifting to Mattarella, and the telephone number of the foreign chancelleries is his.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-e-come-pressa-mattarella/ on Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:56:11 +0000.