Take time, cover your moves to avoid getting worried when making important choices. After days marked by crossed vetoes, clashes and controversies, the parties seem to have found, at least officially and for today, a tacit agreement in postponing public outings on the Quirinale until after the Christmas holidays. Having said that, the confrontation continues below.
In the evening the news of a meeting between Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and Roberto Speranza leaked. It tells of an exchange of ideas on the health situation, on the budget law and on the January appointments, including the election of the new President of the Republic. But on this last point, mouths sewn obviously on the possible names, only the confirmation of the method in favor of a convergence as broad as possible for a consensual presidency inspired by third-party choices. In short, it holds this sort of truce sanctioned between the true king makers and the aspiring king, to deal with the internal dynamics of the individual groups and avoid entering the whole-name meat grinder too early. It is no coincidence that Letizia Moratti steps aside, clarifying that Silvio Berlusconi is «the only name for the center right». “I – he adds – I deal with healthcare in the Lombardy Region”. From Arcore they say that the meaning of the Moratti-Meloni lunch “has been greatly inflated”. There would therefore be no anger on the part of Berlusconi. According to various sources from the center-right, «I would be talking about Lombardy. There are those who speculate that Moratti himself could be the next candidate for President, should the League ever want to give up the leadership of the Region.
In short, the mantra of these hours is: we deal with pandemics, budget, fight against expensive bills, instead of maneuvers on the Hill. A common feeling summarized well by Osvaldo Napoli, of Coraggio Italia, according to which the various current leaders risk resembling the musicians of Fellini’s “Prove d’Orchestra”, in which the conductor, a German gentleman, “tries to accord between their undisciplined orchestral musicians, each of which is considered decisive and indispensable for the success of the concert. The result was complete anarchy, while dull and croaking noises took the place of the symphony ». To avoid this risk, for days the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta has been inviting everyone to wait until 2022 to find out the line of his party: so today the convocation for January 13 of a joint meeting of the parliamentary groups and the PD Management arrives “to set – reads a note from the Nazarene – the election path of the new head of state ”.
But also in the center-right the aim is to buy time. On Thursday a summit of leaders was convened at Villa Grande, also open to the leaders of the minor forces of the center, Giovanni Toti (Courage Italy), Maurizio Lupi (Us with Italy) and Lorenzo Cesa (Udc). But the lunch menu, at least in Matteo Salvini’s intentions, does not include the main dish of the Quirinale. “We’ll take care of it in January. As center-right, we will meet on Thursday, not only the main parties but all, to talk about tax cuts, European funds. Del Quirinale – reiterates the Northern League secretary – talking about it now is of little or nothing ». Along the same lines Matteo Renzi: “Until January 10 nothing happens, whoever talks now – assures the secretary of Italia Viva – does not count, whoever counts does not chat”. Having said that, we are talking, indeed, of a transition that will inevitably mark the stability of the government and the fate of the legislature. According to the dem Andrea Marcucci, “if there is or will be an agreement of the parties on Draghi at the Quirinale, we also begin to talk about the candidate for the succession to Palazzo Chigi and about the guarantees for the legislature that must complete the reforms “. In this regard, in the “pour parler” of the Transatlantic, the hypothesis is becoming increasingly popular that if Draghi went up to the Colle it would be Marta Cartabia to take his place at Palazzo Chigi. A relay that, it is always assumed in Montecitorio, could be facilitated if accompanied by the decision to appoint both Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi as senators for life.
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