Smiles, relaxed atmosphere, informal horizons on the main issues of international current affairs, starting with Ukraine. With a lunch in the center of Rome, the relationship of collaboration and mutual esteem between the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio and the director of Dis (Department of Security Information) Elisabetta Belloni until a few months ago secretary general was consolidated today of the Farnesina.
Belloni: ever more solid friendship. Di Maio: deep esteem and friendship
«With Minister Di Maio – Belloni said – there is an increasingly solid friendship. Di Maio is always loyal ‘. And on Facebook Di Maio returned the compliments: «With Elisabetta Belloni – wrote the minister – a deep esteem and a great friendship bind me. An extraordinary professional, with an immense attachment to the institutions. I had a nice chat with her today for lunch. Thanks Elisabetta, I fully agree with what you think of our relationship ». Thus ends, around some dish of the Roman gastronomic tradition, the story that had seen Belloni candidate for the position of Head of State. But a story that will now force some reflection and “adjustment” of positions within both the Five Stars and the Democratic Party. The director of the Dis would also have met the undersecretary and delegated authority for security, Franco Gabrielli, in the offices of the Prime Minister in the afternoon.
Conte: a transversal blockade against Belloni
The former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte recalls how “in the Democratic Party there was no longer the availability on Belloni, I do not enter – adds the president of the Five Stars – in the motivations of the Democratic Party but there was a transversal block”. The interpretations of Belloni’s candidacy (and failure to elect) can be summarized as follows: her appointment risked representing a vulnus for the Government because it would have been the result of a majority other than that which Draghi claims, and then risked breaking the grillini. and the Democratic Party within them and could ultimately be read only as a move to pave the way for the real candidacy of the politician Casini.
Borghi (Pd): bill for ineligibility of former Heads of Services at Quirinale
Enrico Borghi, head of the security policies of the Democratic Party and member of Copasir raised the problem of a possible “incompatibility” and “ineligibility” to be established by law of the executives of the Services with the highest office in the State. «Belloni – said Borghi – is a very high profile figure in the high administration of the state, a sincere official of a democratic republic and a person who has rendered and is rendering very important services to the country. Precisely for this reason it should not have been put in the middle of the meat grinder and whoever did it assumes political and institutional responsibilities for a clumsy activity ». Borghi announces a bill in this regard but the only limit imposed on the name of the President of the Republic is the age. Ineligibility for former service directors therefore clashes with article 84 of the Constitution. To change it, a constitutional law would be needed.
Urso: other than “revolving doors”: great qualities developed at the service of the state
And then, can we really speak of “revolving doors” between Services and political offices or rather of great qualities developed on the basis of different experiences? The president of Copasir, Adolfo Urso, asked this and entrusted some reflections to an interview for Formiche. According to Urso, there are cases such as that of Prefect De Gennaro, chief of police, then director of DIS and then undersecretary of intelligence, “an extraordinary course that led him to become president of Finmeccanica as well”. Or “Gabrielli himself, director of the Sisde and then of Aisi, that is, of an operational agency, then prefect of Rome, chief of police, and now undersecretary for intelligence and cybersecurity”. In the past, moreover, Urso always remembers, «parliamentarians had been intelligence directors without anyone raising problems of incompatibility or ineligibility as they do not exist towards the high ranks of the Armed Forces. I would avoid the issue being addressed in the wake of the Quirinal controversy ».