Salvini-Cavaliere axis. “No M5S or you vote”. But the doves are still hard at work

Rome, 18 July 2022 – At Palazzo Chigi the delivery of silence remains imperative. Officially, Draghi’s position does not change, but some space must have opened up if for the first time we begin to hypothesize that the debate on Wednesday could end with a vote. Certainly, even on this hot Sunday, the feverish underground work continued intensely in view of the hour of truth. There are those who go out of their way to mend, and those who have everything to lose in getting to the vote in September, with no more fields, neither wide nor narrow: in short, the Democratic Party. And there are those who work with all their strength to make the fracture definitive: and in this case it is about who would have everything to gain from elections in the autumn, obviously Salvini and Berlusconi, not to mention Meloni. The leaders of Lega and Forza Italia cannot say it openly, but they really come within an inch of doing so. “Either a Draghi bis without five stars, or you vote”, they write in a note at the end of a face to face at Villa Certosa. Government crisis, the split grillini. Berlusconi: “Ready to vote soon” To show that the axis holds, the Captain rushes to Sardinia with a scheduled flight for lunch (Luigino Berlusconi gives him a ride on the private plane on his return) to take stock of the situation : impossible to govern with M5s “for their incompetence and unreliability”. Conte’s statements, they explain, confirm “the breaking of the pact of trust, as Draghi underlined”. Moreover, they complain, it is unthinkable “to make a financial plan together with those who say no to the waste-to-energy plant, are opposed to increasing gas production, at high speed and support measures such as citizenship income?”. So: either there is a government without contiani or there are only the ballot boxes. “We await the political evolution, but …