The Draghi bis is moving away, with or without the M5s, and the legislature appears increasingly in the balance. The parties still have four days to deal with and put together the pieces of the crisis that opened with the movement’s non-confidence vote in the Senate, but it is an uphill struggle. The divisions become more marked and the movement led by Giuseppe Conte continues to be crossed by profound tensions as the polls move closer.
Whether or not to withdraw the delegation to the government is the question that sends the pentastellati into a tailspin in the same hours in which Salvini and Berlusconi close to any hypothesis of being able to continue to sit together with the 5S in the executive. The Democratic Party, which continues to hope for a rethinking of Draghi, remains convinced that the “format and perimeter” of the majority must remain unchanged. But if these are the “premises”, observes the Undersecretary at Palazzo Chigi Bruno Tabacci, “the legislature is over”. And even the Northern League player Giancarlo Giorgetti admits that “the teams are now tired” and that the “game is difficult to unlock”. “Draghi is our guarantee at an international level, he has held an impeccable position and must remain”, is the appeal of Pier Ferdinando Casini.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s mission to Algeria scheduled for next week has been reduced to a single day: Tuesday will be a day of pause for further reflection and contacts and then Wednesday the Prime Minister will present himself to the Chambers as requested by the Head of State Sergio Mattarella.
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The times dictated by the Constitution and the outcome of the polls: the precedents (ANSA)
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A new meeting of the National Council of the M5s will be held tomorrow. In five-star circles the hypothesis of the withdrawal of the Movement’s ministers before Wednesday is circulating, a scenario that according to parliamentary sources would be among those on the table of the internal discussions in progress. This solution, as far as we know, was also discussed in yesterday’s national council.
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The choice of the former central governor appears to the most definitive, as shown by the words chosen to announce the resignation to his ministers and then frozen by the Colle. But those who work on an afterthought never tire of renewing the calls to move forward and weave a network of contacts to probe the existence of a last chance to guarantee continuity to the government’s action. At the top of the list of parties that aim not to close the legislature prematurely, there is the Democratic Party with the support of Leu. Andrea Orlando and Roberto Speranza explain it. “We are working for the continuation of a government of national unity – says the first – and we hope that the discussion that is taking place within the Five Stars will help this perspective and avoid giving spaces, however undeserved, to the right”. Among other things, the Dems inevitably look to alliances, aware that without the wide field, beating the center-right becomes a desperate mission, as shown by the data of a Youtrend-Cattaneo poll.
And a failure to heal the fracture that has been created in recent days would make it much more difficult to join forces. The parliamentary passage, also wanted by Mattarella to parliamentarize the crisis, “is absolutely right”, also argues the Minister of Health, excluding, however, a Draghi bis. Which, on the other hand, is the recipe indicated by both Più Europa ed Action and Italia Viva. Matteo Renzi launches an online petition: “We will do everything to have a Draghi Bis free from conditioning that addresses the choices necessary for the country”, says the former premier.
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Now 3 ministers, one deputy and 5 undersecretaries. In 6 passed to Ipf (ANSA)
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“The M5s is gone, now it’s called Conte’s party. It is a boss party that has decided to put its flags before security and national unity”, affirms the Foreign Minister. Luigi Di Maio.
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Pirelli, Eni and Intesa do well in Piazza Affari. Positive European Markets (ANSA)
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In the meantime, chaos reigns supreme in the Cinquestelle house: meetings after meetings do not lead to finding a point of fall. The hypothesis of withdrawing the delegation from the government is proposed without however unanimous consent: the Minister for Relations with Parliament records his dissent, explaining that in this way he would definitively close off any mediation. Those who say they are convinced that the legislature has come to an end is the president of FdI Giorgia Meloni while Salvini and Berlusconi brand the 5S as irresponsible and declare themselves ready to vote.
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