Will the Cesa bomb blow up the Conte government?
Perhaps the centrists are saved from Conte's web thanks to Cesa, writes the political notist Francesco Damato
I will be wrong but the speed with which he resigned as UDC secretary, once managed with his friend Pier Ferdinando Casini, gave me the impression that Leonardo Cesa wanted to take advantage of the new judicial stumbling block in his long political experience to pull himself out of the web of Giuseppe Conte. Who is trying to capture post-Christian centrists like insects, such as post liberals, post reformist socialists and more to expand what is relative, very relative, especially in the Senate, he has left of the improvised majority around his second government in ' summer of 2019, after the break with Matteo Salvini. Now the prime minister is dealing, in the plural, with the other Matteo in politics: Renzi.
CESA, THE UDC AND THE DANGEROUS MONTI GOVERNMENT
On the other hand, Cesa has good reasons to nourish the trust it immediately expressed or confirmed in the judiciary by resigning as secretary of the best-known party among the fragments of what was once the Christian Democracy, just think, by Alcide De Gasperi, Attilio Piccioni, Amintore Fanfani, Aldo Moro, Giulio Andreotti, to stop at the dead, and not all. In addition to having escaped, albeit fortunately, in the distant storm of Tangentopoli thanks to the wise and obstinate procedural conduct of the late Gianni Prandini, whom he too had contributed decisively to arrest, this time Cesa can count on the ease of the magistrate's error who in Calabria contested the criminal association aggravated by the mafia method.
THE ROLE OF GRATTERI
This is Nicola Gratteri, whose raids with handcuffs or simple warranties, which are often the same in the media, usually lose a lot of suspects and defendants on the street. The most recently certified injury of this prosecutor, which Matteo Renzi would have wanted in 2014 Minister of Justice in his government, firmly detained by the then head of state Giorgio Napolitano, is the acquittal of the former president of Calabria Mario Oliverio.
THE BOMB CESA ON GOVERNMENT COUNT
Like any party secretary, Cesa may have met "people of all kinds," Senator Paola Binetti regretted. Which in recent days had not been open but very open to Conte's web, asking only a little more time to end up inside. Now, having exploded what in the newspapers has become "the Cesa bomb", the senator has become more cautious and has fallen back on a longer "reflection", imposed on her by the usual fury of the equally usual grillini. Who have risen as one man, even if divided as they are among themselves, against the contamination they risk by accepting in the government coalition people not only like Cesa but also like Binetti, in fact.
WILL RENZI AND CONTE HAPPEN UP?
Poor Conte too, one might say thinking of the conditioning he has to undergo under 5 stars, to which he owes his arrival at Palazzo Chigi. But the understanding is relative like the majority that has remained in the Senate because of his own it has taken a lot, indeed a lot, in the increase of confusion and political tensions going on competing with Matteo Renzi in the exasperation of the contrasts. However, he has the aggravating circumstance of having been caught red-handed, so to speak, of a very superficial and botched plan for the use of European recovery funds, rightly challenged by his ally, now former. But it is not certain that the realism of precariousness does not force both to contact each other again on the verge of elections.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-bomba-cesa-fara-esplodere-il-governo-conte/ on Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:03:26 +0000.