The winds of crisis that have been blowing on the government for days push Mario Draghi to go up to the Quirinale: a confrontation with the head of state that the premier considered indispensable after the tear of the M5S, which left the classroom at the time of the final vote of the Aid decree and while the temptation continues to prevail among the pentastellated senators not to vote for confidence scheduled for Thursday. We will see.
Draghi will meet the trade unions today and it is a meeting that could indirectly also favor the climate within the majority. In fact, the issue is not so much or only what the M5s senators will do on Thursday but if there is the will to find solutions to problems, starting with that of work and the loss of purchasing power. This is the pragmatic lens through which the premier will make his considerations. Nothing has been decided at the moment.
Towards a clarification
Draghi had already said (even directly to Conte) that the will to find the solution is prevailing as always. But it obviously has to be on both sides. If this is the case, failure to vote on the Aid decree yesterday will not cause further shocks even if the Cinquestelle were to desert the Chamber also in the Senate. In other words, it will be framed as a “circumscribed episode”. Otherwise it is obvious that we will move towards a “clarification”, the one asked yesterday by Silvio Berlusconi and also supported by Matteo Salvini. The Forza Italia leader asked the prime minister “to escape this politically blackmailing logic and to take note of the situation that has arisen” by urging “verification”.
A slap in the face of the government
On Monday morning in Montecitorio the final vote on the Aid decree was scheduled: the M5s who last Thursday voted to trust the Government, decides not to participate (with the exception of the deputy Francesco Berti): the text is approved with 266 yeses and 47 no and now it goes to the Senate, where it must be converted into law, under penalty of forfeiture, within this week. A slap in the face of the government that Giuseppe Conte presents as “an already clear decision, because there is a question of merit that is important to us that we had anticipated (the green light to the waste-to-energy plant in Rome, ndr), there is a question of coherence and linearity, therefore nothing new “. The leader of the M5s leaves the next step open: what will happen in the Senate, where the vote is unique and the Movement cannot therefore replicate the modality followed in the Chamber? At Palazzo Madama the senators are for the hard line. A not indifferent choice for the estate of the government.
Electoral campaign climate
Meanwhile, the attack by the center-right allies within the majority has started. “The decision to leave the Aid Dl classroom is very serious and cannot be without consequences,” says Forza Italia. An anticipation of what Silvio Berlusconi (who convenes an emergency summit in Arcore) adds shortly after: “We ask that there be a verification of the majority in order to understand which political forces intend to support the government, not alternately and for electoral gains , but to carry out reforms and protect the interests of Italians ».