Will Conte and Salvini really make Draghi shoes?
Conte and Salvini have little to play against Draghi over the war in Ukraine. The Scratches of Damato
Already in growing difficulty at home due to Sunday's losses within their respective sides in the first round of local elections, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Salvini now have very little to play against Mario Draghi next week in Parliament on the slippery ground of the war in Ukraine. Where the prime minister played a bit of the lion's share in yesterday's meeting in Kiev, practically leading the game of the European Union with Zelensky. Which claims and will still obtain other weapons from Westerners to defend itself from Russian aggression but in the perspective of a final negotiation with its backs covered precisely by Europe, perhaps even losing pieces of territory, in exchange, however, for greater security guaranteed by the accession procedures of Ukraine to the Union of Brussels.
This is the canvas that Draghi went to weave in Kiev with his French, German and Romanian colleagues or counterparts, being shrewdly careful not to make the prospect of the agreement appear as imposed, but as an autonomous and reasoned choice by Zelensky. Who in the past may have been a comedian but certainly has not turned out to be the cricket of Ukraine.
In this perspective, with all the troubles – I repeat – they already have at home, now downloaded, respectively, by Luigi Di Maio and Silvio Berlusconi, they have very little to play Conte and Salvini against Draghi on the pacifist front forcing him in Parliament to who knows. as a line correction at the next European Council.
Marco Travaglio on the Fatto Quotidiano may well have fun, in his own way, to mangling the name of the Foreign Minister by calling him "Di Mario" to sarcastically flatten it on the Prime Minister, but now the crisis of the 5 Stars is solar evidence. It may be that Alessandro Sallusti anticipated the end of Conte too much on Libero like that of the turkey at Christmas, without even waiting for next year's political elections, but now the showdown in the 5 Star Movement has exploded with the protest, by of the Foreign Minister, of an unprecedented defeat in the usual difficulties at the local level. Conte challenges him to split to escape the prohibition of more than two parliamentary mandates, but Di Maio may now have well taken into account the abandonment: of the Moment, however, not of the government.
Salvini seemed to be feeling a little better but only until yesterday, when he had to give up his unrealistic resistance in the Senate to the reform of justice that bears the name of Minister Marta Cartabia, approved instead definitively, and assist from a distance at the arrival of a former historic Northern League player like Flavio Tosi in Forza Italia, personally welcomed by Silvio Berlusconi . And who knows what else they will be able to reserve for the next few weeks, after the municipal ballots of June 26 and the further innovations that may emerge also in reference to the plots, for now underground, of a new electoral law, perhaps proportional, with which to send Italians to the polls for the renewal of the Chambers of the now defunct "centrality" grillina.
In short, everything is in motion, between the international framework and the balance of power between the home parties. Nobody can feel at ease, perhaps not even Draghi, but even less how many think they can do without it. Or just to push it elsewhere. Who knows where …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-salvini-draghi/ on Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:40:07 +0000.