No exit from the government, no crisis is the glass half full. A majority in tension and the leader of the M5s who asks the premier for clarification is the glass half empty. While the West meets in Madrid for a historic NATO summit that gave the go-ahead for Finland and Sweden to join the Alliance after the invasion of Ukraine, Mario Draghi must return to Rome to put out the fires that in a hot summer is likely to make his executive flare up. Sources from Palazzo Chigi invite us not to dramatize and reiterate that Draghi’s decision to return early to Rome is linked to the convocation of the Council of Ministers to be held the same day, convened to examine an urgent measure against the increase in bills and budget adjustment.
As for the divisions on the measures under discussion in the Chambers, these are parliamentary dynamics on which the executive does not want to intervene at the moment. And the same decision to leave the NATO summit a day before does not affect the Italian presence at the summit, add the same sources, according to which the highlight was yesterday and today Italy will be represented by Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini. But the concatenation of the news yesterday made the Roman palaces fibrillate. First the irritation of Giuseppe Conte, then the denial of Mario Draghi, finally the conversation between the M5 leader and the President of the Republic and the premier’s decision to return early to Rome.
“There are many provocations,” notes M5s minister Stefano Patuanelli, who assures: “There is no will of the Movement to leave the government but there is a push for the Movement to leave”. «I cannot think that the Prime Minister has the will to bring out a force of the majority of him and therefore I don’t think so. But a government cannot stand on splits, it is the new born force that is creating fibrillation in the government, not the M5s ”. And the hypothesis of external support? “The theme has never been raised in all the meetings we have had.”
Today on the agenda there is therefore the meeting of the Council of Ministers but also a telephone meeting perhaps between the premier and the M5s leader in view of an interview vis à vis to definitively clarify the misunderstandings of the past hours. But the tensions in the majority also spread to the parliamentary front, with Matteo Salvini attacking on the ius scholae and liberalization of cannabis: «Blocking Parliament to vote on Ius scholae and free drugs is against the interests of the country. We have been very responsible up to now: from the war to the pandemic to the tax reform, while asserting our positions. Dialectics is the salt of democracy. However, we cannot accept a forcing that risks damaging Italy and the Italians, ”says the leader of the League who yesterday called a meeting of his parliamentarians. “On the rights we do not intend to move back a millimeter”. clarifies however Francesco Boccia from the secretariat of the Democratic Party.