ROME. Negotiations continue to find a solution to the government crisis, with the internal clash of the 5-star Movement and the stop of Salvini and Berlusconi on another executive with Conte. Today at 2 pm the joint assembly of the M5S groups with Giuseppe Conte is scheduled: the meeting could always take place remotely via Zoom but it is not excluded that the meeting can also take place in the presence, in the parliamentary groups’ hall. Meanwhile, over a thousand signatures of the first citizens of all of Italy to Mario Draghi so that the government goes ahead infuriate Giorgia Meloni: “I wonder if it is correct that these mayors and governors who represent all the citizens they administer, even those who think differently, use institutions like this, shamelessly, as if they were party sections ». Then, on Facebook, she comments: «Appeals, second thoughts, supplications and twists: for fear of being defeated, the left is willing to do anything to avoid a return to the vote. They can escape as much as they want, the day will soon come when they will have to deal with the judgment of the Italians ». Publishing the card of Enrico Letta you wrote: “They are all trying to avoid returning to the vote for fear of a resounding defeat.”
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The Cinquestelle river assembly also continues, between stops and resumes, while the Financial Times: «Italy still needs Draghi». For the London financial daily, “the best prospect is that Draghi will continue to be prime minister for as long as possible”.
In the ranks of the Cinquestelle the “Conte line” holds and prevails among the parliamentarians of the M5S: outside the Draghi government without precise answers on the points considered fundamental for the Movement, or those contained in the document delivered to the Prime Minister.
The editorial by Massimo Giannini The Draghi rebus, mediocracy and the “state-party” negotiation
The analysis For Draghi only crocodile tears, all with him but no one really is
Background Center-right, aut aut to Draghi: Salvini and Berlusconi aim to vote
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1.15 pm – The Montecitorio group leaders’ conference will meet tomorrow at 4.30 pm
The Montecitorio group leaders’ conference has decided to update itself tomorrow at 4.30 pm, after the meeting of the presidents of the Senate groups, to establish the timetable for the communications of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi. The proceedings of the Chamber will therefore be suspended and the opening of today’s session, scheduled for 2 pm, will be updated for tomorrow at 6 pm, when the Presidency will communicate the outcome of the meeting.
12.50 pm – Draghi’s communications on Wednesday to the Chamber, then to the Senate
Communications with a fiduciary debate – and therefore with a call by roll call – will be those that the Prime Minister Mario Draghi will make on Wednesday in the Chamber, after having returned his mandate in the hands of the head of state, Sergio Mattarella. This is what emerged from the Montecitorio group leaders’ conference. Tomorrow there will be a new meeting of the presidents of the groups at 4.30 pm after that of the Senate to establish the timetable for communications. Pd and M5S had asked that the premier’s communications be made first to the Chamber and then to the Senate.
Crisis, Di Maio: “If Draghi jumps, the roof jumps at the price of gas”
12.20 pm – Rosato (Iv): “There is a country that asks Draghi to stay”
“There is a country that is asking Draghi to stay to defend Italy’s interests”: the hope is that the Prime Minister “will continue his tiring and indispensable work” also because it is essential “to approve measures that are pieces important of the Pnrr “. This was underlined by the president of Italia Viva Ettore Rosato on the sidelines of the Antitrust report to the Chamber. «We are working so that Draghi can continue and our petition has exceeded 90 thousand signatures in two days with an absolutely transversal, wide and participatory adhesion continues Rosato. For the president of IV, «the requests coming from across the border reflect the central role of our country in today’s world balance. The photo of the leaders of Italy, France and Germany on their way to Kiev would not have been possible without Draghi ». “There is only Draghi: after him there are the elections” concludes Rosato.
11.55 – The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Di Maio: “Firmly alongside Draghi, he understood that politics is the art of the possible”
“Firmly at the side of Draghi”: this is the title of a column that the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung dedicates today to the Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio. «In the dispute over the war in Ukraine, Di Maio is firmly on the side of Draghi, who is firmly with NATO and the EU. The former head of the ECB and the young foreign minister have faith in each other “, we read, after a description of the political steps of Di Maio, who at 36 is the youngest in office as well as the minister since longer in service. “Di Maio accuses the former Prime Minister Conte – who is one of those who understand Putin’s reasons, and who took the lead of the 5 Stars in August 2021 – of having planned the fall of Draghi for some time”, he continues. ‘item. Reconstructing the stages of the minister’s path, who recently founded a new center-left party, leaving the 5 Stars, Faz writes: “Di Maio has now recognized that politics is the art of the possible and not the cult of utopia” .
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12.00 – Silvestri (M5S): “If Draghi pulls the plug, it’s his responsibility”
If Mario Draghi confirms his resignation to the Chambers, “he will take responsibility, because a prime minister who pulls the plug from the government despite having the numbers is singular.” M5S deputy Francesco Silvestri tells RaiNews24.
11.30 – Osvaldo Napoli: “For the first time the people in the square in defense of the Government, not against”
“The leaders of each party will do well to pay attention to what is happening in these and the next few hours. For the first time in the history of the Republic, people are mobilizing in many cities and taking to the streets in defense of a government, against the tradition of contesting it, therefore against the small intrigues and the conveniences of politics closed in the palace ». The deputy of Action, Osvaldo Napoli says: «After 15 years of vaffa-day comes the revolt of civilized Italy. The country is exhausted by the nonsense of the grillini, by the opportunistic calculations of the center-right. Italians fear the serious consequences of a crisis in the dark and early voting in the dramatic moment we are experiencing. Those who want the vote do not care about the problems of families, the aid to be awarded with another decree at the end of the month, the companies packed between rate hikes and lunar energy bills. All this is not part of the increasingly short-sighted calculations of political forces. It is the time for Italy of reason and common sense to make itself heard, to raise one’s voice is to defend one’s interests that do not coincide with the interests of Salvini, Berlusconi, Letta and Conte ».
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11 am – Rectors in Draghi: young people need her
«Dear President Draghi, the university needs you. This is why we want to send you a renewed message of esteem and at the same time a request for help: training, research and above all young female students in our country need examples to follow and references to remember ». It is a passage from the letter-appeal of Ferruccio Resta, who leads the Crui, conference of the rectors of Italian universities, published in the Corriere della Sera. «President Draghi, in these days there are several appeals for you to remain in office. Many gestures of esteem by leaders from all over the world and messages from the representatives of institutions and companies. However, I fear that, in this almost completely unanimous chorus, the weakest voice is that of the many girls and boys who, from the university classrooms, live this umpteenth story with resignation. She won’t hear them, she probably won’t see them take to the streets. Not because they do not have an opinion about it, but because I assume they have neither the desire nor the interest to indulge the games of politics. They have seen many in recent years ».
10.40 am – Fontana (Lega): “The M5s-Pd theater is unworthy”
“Enough with the unworthy theater of 5Stelle and PD which has undermined the” pact of trust “on which this government was born – says the deputy secretary of the League, Lorenzo Fontana -. Parliament is now completely delegitimized: relying on defectors and ballerina majorities does not guarantee stability and is in contrast with what is explicitly desired by the premier who does not want to change the forces that support him in the race. At this point, we give the Italians the opportunity to choose a new Parliament that finally, and for five years, takes care of the work, safety and health of Italians, other than free drugs, Ius Soli or Ddl Zan ».
10.20 am – Appeal from the world of associations
The world of associations launches an “appeal to Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the political forces who supported him to avoid a government crisis”. Expressing “deep and sincere concern”, they underline that “the drama of the moment and the many demands for dignity of society do not need a crisis because they would be even more compromised”. The document is signed by Acli, Arci, Action Cattolica, Confcooperative, Cnca, Fuci, Gruppo Abele, Legambiente, Legacoop Sociali, Libera, Meic, Movimento Politico per l’Unità, and is open to other subscriptions.