Who really has the snitch of the crisis in hand
What happens between Mattarella, Draghi and Conte. The Scratches of Damato
Conte's party – as Luigi Di Maio calls it, I don't know if more sarcastically or with too much optimism, assuming that the former Prime Minister really controls what remains of the 5 Star Movement – has also seized this long eve of the parliamentary verification of next Wednesday. That is the day on which Mario Draghi, on the explicit indication of the Quirinale, will present himself to the Chambers to explain the reasons for his resignation as prime minister rejected by the head of state.
Sergio Mattarella is not entirely convinced that the government no longer has its original majority. In any case, he wants a clear confirmation of it in Parliament before deciding, probably and finally, to dissolve it and send the Italians to the polls in the autumn, for the first and significant time in the history of the Republic, where so far it has always voted in the spring, or on its theshold.
There is always a first time in all stories. Four years ago, at the beginning of this legislature, even the one – admitted by Mattarella himself – to entrust the leadership of the government to someone like Conte: a law professor, for heaven's sake, a lawyer with a very wealthy clientele, albeit with the habit of consider oneself at the service of the "people", but complete a lack of politics and administration. And the effects have been frankly seen, no matter how much aid the improvised Prime Minister received from Mattarella himself and collaborators at the Quirinale in the two experiences lived at Palazzo Chigi: the first with a yellow-green majority and the second Giallorossi, or Giallorosa wanting to safeguard the colors of football Rome.
Sure not to have made it big – as the good soul of Amintore Fanfani would have told him inviting him to "cover it" – but even to have "the ball" or "lead the game", according to the words attributed to him by the newspaper that supports him most, that is Il Fatto Quotidiano, Conte is trying in his own way to remove the last grass under the feet of the hated Draghi: the intruder who a year and a half ago blew him, let's say, the Prime Minister.
In its own way, I said: running and braking, saying and denying, throwing the stone and hiding my hand. At stake this time is the resignation of the pentastellated ministers before Wednesday to close the circle of trust denied to the government on the decree of aid to families and businesses, not even voted on by the House, where however the trust was given to him thanks to votes separate allowed by a somewhat messed up regulation. But the ministers, and not even the undersecretaries, are all willing to satisfy Conte, ready indeed to follow Di Maio in his new parliamentary groups: together for the future.
Everything else in this crisis frozen or suspended like a football match waiting for extra time – believe me – is false: from the pressure of the Pd of Enrico Letta for the recovery in extremis of a majority without which it really becomes a cemetery, as they say from opposing visions Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi, the so-called large field with the 5 Stars, or what remains of it, to the contrasts in the center-right between those who really want the elections now and those who still try to delay them so as not to find themselves, in case of victory , faced with the problem of supporting, undergoing and opposing Giorgia Meloni's candidacy at Palazzo Chigi.
The omnipotence attributed by Conte makes even the international echo of Draghi's resignation paradoxically false, in the midst of the war in Ukraine and its geopolitical, economic and social reflections. Draghi, according to the usually happy journalistic representation that the poster knows how to make of complicated situations, is between "the stars and stripes": Conte's shooting stars and Biden's American stripes, who cheers for him in good European company.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-ha-davvero-in-mano-il-boccino-della-crisi/ on Sat, 16 Jul 2022 07:44:44 +0000.