Government crisis, Conte: “Now make the majority more solid”. Forza Italia, Renziani and UDC: where the votes can come from

There is no absolute majority, but 156 votes allow the government to Giuseppe Conte to collect the trust as well Senate. And look forward. Of majorities without the numbers a Madama Palace the archives of the First Republic are full. And also of the Second if we consider the government Massimo D’Alema and the last of Silvio Berlusconi, after the release of Gianfranco Fini. The circumstances, however, are very different: today there is a coronavirus emergency to govern and a Quirinale which, however, has never made any secret of being opposed to majorities “garbage collector “. Pure Conte said he was against governing with “one vote here and one there”. That there is a problem of numbers, on the other hand, the premier also put it in the minutes at Palazzo Madama: “If I’m not here, the government goes home“He said during his reply. Then, however, he added: “Immediately after any trust we will evaluate a topic we were already discussing: how strengthen the government team“. The trust came and in fact late in the evening the tenant’s Chigi Palace tweets: “Now the goal is to make even more solid this majority. Italy doesn’t have a minute to lose. Immediately to work to overcome the health emergency and the economic crisis. Priority to vaccine plan, Recovery Plan and refreshment points “.

The government also gains confidence in the Senate. Now the goal is to make this majority even more solid. Italy doesn’t have a minute to lose. Immediately to work to overcome the health emergency and the economic crisis. Priority to vaccine plan, recovery plan and refreshments

– Giuseppe Conte (@GiuseppeConteIT) January 19, 2021

To solidify its majority, the executive does not have much time ahead. Between budget variance, Ristori decree e Recovery plan, a Chigi Palace we discuss about ten days available. Also because the head of state was clear: we need to get out of this state of uncertainty quickly. Sergio Mattarella, always attentive to his prerogatives, can only take note that there is a government in office until now not disheartened in any branch of Parliament. But it is not possible to ignore the fact that up to now the executive has an absolute majority in only one of the two chambers. That is why at this point the evaluations of the Prime Minister, during a meeting that is speculated as highly likely for Wednesday.

Conte will have to explain if and in what times he thinks it is possible to shore up his majority. In practice, it is a question of opening that “legislature table“Which has been discussed for months. For this reason, the head of government has already called – again for tomorrow – a majority summit. With the leaders of the Pd, M5s and Leu the magic word must be cleared: reshuffle. There is a heavy delegation to assign, that one to Agriculture from which she resigned Teresa Bellanova, another lighter but with a high symbolic value, namely the Equal opportunities e Family let by Elena Bonetti. And then there is that ai services, much contested by the Renzians. Strengthening the team, however, does not only mean distributing the vacant positions but also reorganizing those already assigned. With the aim of transforming that relative majority of the Senate to make it absolute.

After tonight the government starts from 156, which become 157 with a senator from the M5s absent justified (he has Covid). At Palazzo Chigi they consider altitude as a good safety threshold 165/166 votes: means 4/5 more than the absolute majority, which would make it possible not to depend on senators for life. And therefore 8/10 votes are missing. After the vote on Tuesday evening, the geography emerging from Palazzo Madama shows that there is room for maneuver. Starting with the opposition. After Renata Polverini to the Chamber, from Come on Italy two other managers arrived, or “builders”To use a term in vogue lately. It is about Andrea Causin e Maria Rosaria Rossi: the former comes from the ranks of Civic Choice and has a past with Pd in the Veneto regional council, the second is a long-time parliamentarian, historically very close to Silvio Berlusconi and then removed from the Arcore magic circle. Among the corridors of Palazzo Madama they bet that it will not be two failure isolate. Come on Italy, a party that has recently found itself crushed in center right with nationalist pull of Matteo Salvini e Giorgia Meloni, has been showing signs of relaxation in relation to the majority for months. An approach that could now be accelerated by the role of bridge builders played by the three parliamentarians who voted to trust Conte.

Eyes also on the party that caused the crisis, that is Italy alive. The patrol of the senators of Matteo Renzi withstood the first test: out of 18 members, 16 abstained. Daniela sbrollini he was absent, Riccardo Nencini, however, is the other big surprise of the day. “I was convinced by Conte’s openness to the liberal, popular and socialist forces,” said the man who allowed Renzi to have his own group in the Senate. Nencini denies that he wants to force the former secretary of the Democratic Party to move to the Misto, but on the other hand it could be the key to reaching the other Renzians. According to what appears to the fattoquotidiano.it in the corridors of the majority the aim is to enroll at least four senators from Italy alive. The names are those that have been around for months: Eugenio Comincini, Leonardo Grimani, Annamaria Parente, Vincenzo Carbone. “The parliamentarians, especially those elected in the Democratic Party, should reflect on where it is right to go”, said in the classroom one who knows the Renzians well, that is Andrea Marcucci. Also because it is one thing to abstain knowing that the government will not go under. Another is vote against and cause distrust at such a time. Comincini knows it well, elected by the Democratic Party and in fact ready to put his hands forward immediately after the abstention: “If a mending, I I would not place myself in the opposition“.

From Palazzo Chigi, then, eyes are on the patrol of small parties that today voted No but that could soon think again. “We will not vote on trust, as we have done so far, but we will listen to it when it comes up with measures in the general interest,” he said. Antonio Saccone of the UDC, which has three seats in Palazzo Madama. The component also has three votes Idea-Let’s change of the Misto group, of which it belongs Gaetano Quagliariello, quoted by Conte in his rejoinder. The chairman of the board called by full name as well Tiziana Drago, elected by the 5 stars but today against the executive: “A topic touched by Senator Drago – said Conte – is the demographic decline. A very serious problem, it is one of the most severe drops in recent years “. Sources of the majority also give for recoverable Marinella Pacifico, another former 5-star who voted against trust. From here the 8/10 votes able to secure the majority can arrive. Or to make it more solid, to use Conte’s words.

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