Why Berlusconi and Salvini alert Draghi
Fears, wishes and aims of Berlusconi and Salvini. Paola Sacchi's point
Silvio Berlusconi gets back to the center and asks Mario Draghi for a majority check . Matteo Salvini agrees with him. The move of the Cav, in line with the Northern League leader, in a frantic day in which the word crisis resumes, sounds like a halt to the imbalances of the national emergency executive on the left, with excessive concessions also to Landini's CGIL, as attempt to defuse Giuseppe Conte's offensive.
The center-right of the government claims its centrality in the national emergency executive, in view of the paths that could be taken. From the Five Stars come the winds of war with the non-participation in the vote on the decree law "Aid" in the Chamber. Draghi climbs to the Colle. It transpires at the end of the meeting with the Head of State that an attempt will be made to recover the Five Stars, also in view of Thursday's slightly more complicated vote in the Senate, where trust coincides with the vote on the decree.
Nothing official emerges from the interview at the Quirinale, no scenario would be on the table. But Berlusconi and Salvini with him obviously want to see clearly. Matteo Renzi says that even if the Cinque Stelle came out, it could go on anyway. But the premier has so far always ruled out the hypothesis of a Draghi bis.
Berlusconi after having harshly attacked the attitude of the pentastellati, their "deficit of seriousness, responsibility", "the vulnus" of their choice defined "of political schizophrenia" not to vote on a central measure for the country, invites the prime minister to evade the "Blackmail logic" of the grillini. He recalls his decisive contribution to giving birth to the executive and the sense of "responsibility and seriousness" shown by the moment that if he had gone to elections, "Forza Italia and the center-right would have prevailed". Responsibility that Berlusconi intends to continue to have "in this last part of the term". So, in line with Salvini, he clearly puts on the plate the request for a majority verification "in order to see which political forces intend to continue to support the government not in alternating phases or for electoral gains, but to make reforms and protect the interests of Italians ".
Salvini immediately appreciates Berlusconi's speech. Last Sunday, the Northern League leader had already warned that from now on "the League will vote only and always what the Italians need: no one had warned us that drugs and easy citizenship were on the government agenda". Clear the message to Draghi. But last night the topics proposed in the classroom by the Democratic Party, Ius scholae and cannabis, on which the discussion should have started this week, are moved. Salvini rejoices: ”A result of the Lega barricades, a promise kept. Now let's deal with taxes and work ”.
The leader of the League had also reiterated his no to the proportional in recent days. And in a context of centrist maneuvers, although it is not clear with what real evidence of consensus in the country, Berlusconi had pointed out to the various small formations that "the center is Forza Italia, the liberal, guarantor, Christian, pro-European center". In short, a relaunch of FI as the pivot of the coalition with the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia by Giorgia Meloni . An obvious stop to center-right maneuvers and proportionalist attempts aimed at disrupting the center-right. Which, however, is now being put to the decisive test of this last part of the legislature. The most difficult. On which the fate of the center-right will also depend. Given a clear advantage by all the polls.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-berlusconi-e-salvini-allertano-draghi/ on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:07:52 +0000.