Who is dissociated in the Democratic Party from the crickets of Conte anti Draghi
All the turmoil in the Pd of Letta on the 5 Star Movement. The Scratches of Damato
Do you remember Goffredo Bettini, who whispered to the secretaries of the Democratic Party as the man of the English novelist Nicholas Evans to horses, played for the cinema by Robert Redford? It is the gray eminence that Giuseppe Conte from Palazzo Chigi and its surroundings had made a habit of consulting several times a day in an attempt first to avoid a crisis, then to delay it by managing it in place of the President of the Republic, and finally to succeed himself. or with a second and a half government, replacing pieces of the majority, or with a third government destined to make him lead the entire adventurous, anomalous, crazy legislature that began in 2018 under the banner of the "centrality" of the Grillino movement.
Well, not even Bettini has emerged from the secrecy imposed for almost a year to lend a hand to the former "people's lawyer" on the eve of a meeting with Mario Draghi described as "a showdown" by those who regret him as the best president of the Advice from Italy. And he complained, indeed denounced the "conticide" when it was replaced with Draghi.
On the other hand, Bettini himself, after having earned, wrongly – as he claimed – or rightly, the paternity of that "Count or death" who marked the resistance of the lawyer at Palazzo Chigi, had let it slip – before imposing the silence that persists – the admission that the then aspiring president of the 5-star movement was revealing some problems of holding even as a "point of reference for progressives". This is how Nicola Zingaretti had indicated or proposed him too generously in the last weeks of driving the Democratic Party, before practically escaping from the Nazarene and being replaced by Enrico Letta.
The latter, glued to the positions of Mattarella and Draghi, was of an unusual clarity and harshness in admonishing Conte a few days ago, weakened by the splitting of Luigi Di Maio and by an unfortunate reconnaissance mission and order of the "guarantor ”Beppe Grillo in Rome, that a break from the government would be the early end of the legislature. And probably – I would like to add – also of what is left of his movement.
But the trouble for Conte, still wrapped in the "unease" of his relations with Draghi, who grew up with the revelations of the pressures of the Prime Minister on Grillo to "get him out", is that Enrico Letta's warning was added to that of Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, also tired of protecting the former Prime Minister from his mistakes, more or less behind the scenes. If there are crises and early elections – warned Franceschini, the pivot of all majorities in the Nazarene party – the much cultivated "wide" field with the 5 Stars will also end. Rather, it will be a field of the Democratic Party – even if Franceschini has not yet ventured to say so explicitly – with the nebula of the centrists, or of the party of Dragons without Dragons, as has been written for some time in the newspapers.
The well-known Paolo Mieli predicted at this point in an editorial in Corriere della Sera – it will soon be seen whether rightly or wrongly – that Conte's "return to the fight" will be "held back", albeit in quotation marks. And he showed uncertainty only on the hypothesis that the final "embrace" of today's meeting with Draghi will also be accompanied by "a kiss". But of kisses, you know, especially if by betrayal, you can even die, as Grillo experienced fleeing from Rome after having fueled – between confidences, laughter, hugs, kisses and denials – the half-plot of Draghi against Conte. I doubt that the kisses promised to him, in case of crisis, by Michele Santoro and Alessandro Di Battista, would benefit from his political health, already so poor.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-si-smarca-nel-pd-dai-grilli-di-conte-anti-draghi/ on Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:00:07 +0000.