Minister Brunetta is not beating around the bush: «If Draghi falls the day after, the spread goes to 600 and the country goes into default. Right now Draghi and his government are Italy’s life insurance ”. Having said that, explains Festival delle città, «everyone wants to play the game of PNRR» but «if we are serious I do not say that we need five years, not even six. We need exactly seven years in office for the new President of the Republic in the figure of Mario Draghi ». In short, the pro Draghi al Colle party is rising, even if the watchword in these hours remains: “we’ll talk about it at the beginning of next year”. But it is clear that he digs today and digs tomorrow many situations are already moving.
Moreover, Sergio Mattarella, has already made it known that he does not intend to lend himself to an encore. Although even today some citizens have invited him to stay, during his visit to breaking latest news, the Head of State has already explained, citing his predecessor Antonio Segni, that the “immediate re-election of the President” is not practicable. And its orientation appears absolutely firm. Only a dramatic situation, which no one hopes for, could lead the current tenant of the Quirinale to reopen a reflection on this hypothesis. And certainly the hypothesis of some commentators of having an expiring presidency is considered completely outside the Constitution, to put it mildly. On the other hand, the explicit emergence of the idea of an election by Mario Draghi, which would thus become the guarantor for the country for seven years, is yesterday. Development Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti spoke about it. The Northern League minister Massimo Garavaglia also spoke about it: «That Mario Draghi ends up at the Quirinale seems to me a logical solution. The when is all to be seen. It certainly does not depend on myself ». “Draghi would be a great president of the Republic, he is a great president of the Council and he would be a great president of the European institutions, such as the European Council and the European Commission. He can do everything, at the right moment in Parliament we will see, now it is too early to talk about it “, said the leader of IV, Matteo Renzi. Words that are read by his team as a slowdown on the part of those who believe that there are different possibilities on the field. From the Democratic Party, the words of Enrico Letta remain officially valid, who in recent days has asked his followers not to anticipate statements on an issue that will only come to mind later, although many believe that if the Prime Minister’s availability were to materialize it would be difficult to the Democratic Party does not vote for it. Even if the delivery of silence is not accepted “in toto” by the governor of Emilia Romagna Stefano Bonaccini: “I do not agree with a passage from Giorgetti’s interview, that is, that Draghi should go immediately to the Quirinale. This government it must last until the end of the legislature because at this moment Italy needs stability. “As for the M5s, Giuseppe Conte cuts short:” I do not participate in the game of destabilization, the tirades jackets hurt: for the Colle there are many variables to consider and we will talk about them near the deadline ». The analysis that is maturing in the Movement has two faces: on the one hand the closest to the government who consider it a positive element to compete for the election of the Head of State, on the other hand those who evaluate whether it is positive or negative to have Draghi at the Quirinale if this led to early elections. While there is also some work to bring it back to Palazzo Chigi in case there is no clear winner in the next elections: the liberals of the Democratic Party have spoken about it explicitly, the former leader of the Senate Andrea Marcucci has talked about it. However, everyone is aware that the evaluation of the person concerned will have a considerable weight, but the words said at the end of the summer still resonate: «I find this fact of thinking of the Quirinale as another possibility a bit offensive. But also a bit offensive towards the President of the Republic ”, the premier replied to those who asked him if he considered the Quirinale a possibility for his future. And then it is necessary to question those who openly sided with his candidacy as Draghi at Palazzo Chigi at the time when the Conte government went into trouble. “That Draghi can go to the Quirinale to do De Gaulle is a false thing. In what capacity – asks an undersecretary – would you participate in a G20? For now the Constitution has not been changed … ». The thesis is that “Draghi can only really serve the country’s interests from Palazzo Chigi”. But there are also those who take the opposite side. After Giorgetti, Brunetta is also explicit today: “To get out of the economic crisis and the pandemic and to be a leader in Europe, I believe that the person who is most entitled to guarantee this for the next 7 years, that is for the entire duration, and also something more, of the PNRR, is the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi ». Another endorsement, after that of the Minister of Development who, in reality, in the interview with the Press remarked that without Draghi in the seat of the government the funds of the NRRR would be dispersed. And there are those in the League who argue that the number two of the Via Bellerio party wanted to throw the stone precisely to ‘lock it up’ to the government. But on the possibility that Draghi is the bipartisan candidate, the risk is that they will come to terms without the host. That is, it is the elect who must, possibly, name his name. “And both in the House and in the Senate, especially after the cut of the parliamentarians – observes a long-time politician of the majority – there is no one who wants to go and vote”. Therefore, the assumption of a ‘big’ of the Democratic Party is valid according to which “at the Quirinale the best card should be spent” but the fear of early elections could slow down deputies and senators who certainly do not want to bring forward the term of the legislature. “of the Lega underlines how the scenario of the early vote is difficult to achieve. Unless, possibly, another figure of guarantee is found at Palazzo Chigi. On the table, however, the candidacies of Gentiloni and Berlusconi remain ‘braking’ by Giorgetti) and Casini.