The first ballot for the election of the Head of State will be held without agreement between the parties and with the only certainty, except for surprises, that many blank ballots will end up in the ballot boxes. Eve Sunday is consumed with tactical moves, meetings, phone calls and crossed vetoes.
However, the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, thinks about stirring the waters, who in the meeting tomorrow, Monday 24 January, with Salvini will ask for a clear stance on Mario Draghi: “He represented an extraordinary resource for Italy and the task of all of us is to preserve it. Draghi is one of the hypotheses on the table. Not only that, the leader Dem is also ready to open the Mattarella chapter with Salvini:” He would give his best , the ideal and perfect solution “.
After Silvio Berlusconi left the scene, the center-right navigates on sight. The list of names announced by Matteo Salvini is still not there even if the former minister makes it known, after informing the Knight, that he is working on candidates on whose stature “it is difficult for anyone to veto”. The cards are still covered but Salvini appears adamant on two points: “Removing Dragons from Palazzo Chigi is dangerous” and then “Pier Ferdinando Casini is not a candidate of the center right“: A double message that the leader of the League delivers to the premier and to the rest of the political forces who seem to have opened some opening on the name of the former speaker of the Chamber. Pending the proposals of the center-right, Pd-M5s and Leu find themselves in conclave to fine-tune the strategy.
A new meeting is scheduled in the morning but Read, Count and Hope meanwhile formalize a proposal: a table with all the political forces to arrive at a shared candidate. No name is disclosed even if the Democratic Party identifies in the founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Andrea Riccardi “the profile of the ideal president”. Letta, who first brings together the dem ministers and then all the great voters of the Democratic Party, also tries to give a timing on the election of Mattarella’s successor: between Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a shared candidacy. But on the names too close to the opposing side, the leader Dem raises the wall: “Further center-right candidates will end up in the same way as that of Berlusconi. It is the method that was wrong”. At the window is Matteo Renzi. The leader of IV calls for calm “now we are into exasperated tactics”, but he does not exclude from the race neither Mario Draghi nor the former president of the Chamber Pier Ferdinando Casini unlike Riccardi who in his opinion “has no chance”.
On the head of the government, however, Renzi is clear: “The Quirinale does not go against parties. I think that Draghi’s candidacy, assuming it has its own strategy, can only stand if it has this political element. You go to the Quirinale only with a political initiative “. The hypothesis of Draghi al Colle causes discussion also the Movement. After the doubts about the idea that the head of the government will move to the Quirinale leaked yesterday from the meeting of the control room chaired by Conte, the former prime minister rewinds the tape: “We make proposals, we do not veto”.
“Do you remember the newspapers? For a year now they have been telling us on every occasion that this government should not be undermined, that it takes responsibility. Today some of these themselves tell us the opposite,” almost as if one prime minister is as good as another. This is not the case for us, we know what it means to govern, to form a new government, means months before the top management of the administration return to work at full capacity. For this reason, for us, this government must continue to work. This is why I say no veto: we do not veto, but our path starts from the reasoning on continuity of government. Indeed it is an opportunity to say that the M5S is ready to stipulate to strengthen the pact with citizens to strengthen the commitment of this government: they describe us only as worried about finishing the legislature. We must proudly answer that we are here to protect citizens’ interests at whatever cost “, said the M5s President in a meeting with the big 5s voters.
Who seems to have clear ideas is the leader of Action Carlo Calenda who insists on the candidacy of Marta Cartabia: “PD-5S ‘think about Riccardi’; Renzi ‘think about Casini’; The right, after Berlusconi’s withdrawal, doesn’t think. Yet there is a perfect figure for the role of President of the Republic. She was President of the Court and is Minister of Justice; she is a balanced person and above the parties: Marta Cartabia“.
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