The communications of the Prime Minister and the subsequent debate on trust with the vote will start from Palazzo Madama. This is the result of the agreement between the presidents of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati and the Roberto Fico chamber.
Inside the M5s the showdown is endless, with the leaders of the group in the House in revolt and the risk of splitting at the gates. Giuseppe Conte does not hide it and launches an ultimatum: “If someone believes they cannot share such a shared and shared path – he says – make their choice freely, clearly, immediately and without ambiguity”. Times are tight: “There is a night to think about it – says Conte at the top of the group in the House – decisions that go in the direction of a different perspective are declared in time, out of fairness to everyone”. The president of the M5s, meanwhile, is waiting for signals from Palazzo Chigi on the nine requests of the Movement for the government program: “Now the decision is not up to us, but to Draghi”, he said closing the meeting with the parliamentarians. For the leader, the premier will have to assess the conditions and decide the perimeter of the dialogue: there is time until Wednesday, when confidence in the government will be voted. “The attitude of responsibility – says Conte – requires us to ask President Draghi that the priorities we have indicated be placed on the government agenda”. In the meantime, however, the president of the M5s fears the encirclement: those close to him read the moves of the other parties, both center-left and center-right, as a plan to relegate him to the margins.
The assembly of the parliamentary groups of the M5s was a marathon via zoom, an endurance race lasting almost three days in a row. The abacus counted about twenty interventions by those who want to confirm support for Draghi. A leading exponent of the M5s, the group leader at Montecitorio Davide Crippa, made it his spokesman: “It is not clear why we should not vote for trust”. The position of the Contiani was instead summed up by deputy Vittoria Baldino: Draghi’s resignation was a “broken” reaction, which should be read as “an invitation to the door”.
In the chaos of declarations and maneuvers, voices and symptoms chase each other. The first relate to a collection of signatures in progress on a document of the “governors” ready to leave the M5s: the numbers dance, there are those who multiply by two the figure of the twenty who spoke clearly in favor of Draghi. But the definitive count is not there, also because, for now, Conte has not said a definitive word on the position that the M5s will hold at the moment of trust.
‘We ask for stability for the country, stability that cannot be achieved with the M5s in government. The solution is either a Draghi government without 5s or you go to vote, “said the FI coordinator Antonio Tajani on the sidelines of the meeting with Silvio Berlusconi.
“Appeals, second thoughts, supplications and twists: for fear of being defeated, the left is willing to do anything to prevent a return to the vote. They can escape as much as they want, the day will soon come when they will have to deal with the judgment of the Italians. “So on Facebook the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
“Enough with the unworthy theater of 5Stelle and PD which, as explained Thursday by President Mario Draghi, has undermined the ‘pact of trust’ on which this government was born. Parliament is now completely delegitimized: relying on defectors and ballerina majorities does not guarantee stability and is in contrast with what is explicitly desired by the premier who does not want to change the forces that support him in the race. At this point, we give the Italians the opportunity to choose a new Parliament that will finally, and for five years, take care of the work, safety and health of Italians, other than free drugs, Ius Soli or Ddl Zan “. Thus the deputy secretary of the League , Lorenzo Fontana.
“We are in the farce. Now Pd and M5s are asking Draghi to communicate first to the Chamber and then to the Senate only because Conte is weaker in the Chamber. Shameful games that go against the practice that wants communications from the Prime Minister to be made in the chamber of first trust or where the crisis was generated. In both cases, therefore, to the Senate. The Italians deserve respect, seriousness and certainty “. Thus the group leaders of the Chamber and Senate of the Lega Riccardo Molinari and Massimiliano Romeo.
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The premier’s communications first to the Senate, then to the Chamber (ANSA)
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THE APPEALS TO DRAGHI – The world of associations launches an “appeal to Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the political forces that supported him to a government crisis is averted“Expressing” deep and sincere concern “, they underline that” the drama of the moment and the many demands for dignity of society do not need a crisis because it would be even more compromised. “The document is signed by Acli, Arci, Action Cattolica , Confcooperative, Cnca, Fuci, Abele Group, Legambiente, Legacoop Sociali, Libera, Meic, Movimento Politico per l’Unità, and is open to other subscriptions.
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From big cities to small municipalities, even in the center-right (ANSA)
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And after the appeals of mayors and entrepreneurs, that of the rectors also arrives so that Prime Minister Mario Draghi remains at the helm of the government. ‘Dear President Draghi, the university needs you. This is why we want to send you a renewed message of esteem, ‘writes Ferruccio Resta, president of the Conference of Italian University Rectors, in a letter to Corriere della Sera. ‘Young students in our country need examples to follow and references to remember – continues Resta – Students live this latest story with resignation. They will not take to the streets not because they do not have an opinion about it, but because I assume they have neither the desire nor the interest to indulge in the games of politics “, he adds. The letter focuses on young people.” With the pandemic they lived moments of great uncertainty. We must restore our faith in the future to them. “This, continues the rector of the Politecnico di Milano,” is the moment of responsibility. “Thanks to the funds of the Next Generation EU, it is a positive moment, of great momentum. We do not allow the winds of politics to change its course. A boat without a rudder goes adrift ‘, concludes Resta.
After the rectors, an appeal to the premier also comes from the world of school, Mario Draghi: “President stay, the school still needs you”. The open letter distributed and signed by Tuttoscuola has exceeded in a very short time thousands of adhesions from the world of education, including trade unions, associations, experts in the education sector and many teachers and school managers, but also families. Among the signatories also the general secretary of the CISL Scuola Ivana Barbacci, renowned experts such as Benedetto Vertecchi, Italo Fiorin, Giuseppe Cosentino. “Do not disappoint those thousands and thousands of young people who, thanks to you, are regaining confidence in the future – concludes the appeal from the world of schools -. Do not disappoint the expectations of millions of families, teachers and school managers who are carrying out, together with other reforms decided in recent months, we expect new conditions of social redemption and relaunch of the training action “.
EUROPE – “Bear skin is not sold before having taken it …”, said the High Representative of EU Foreign Policy Josep Borrell on the fact that in Moscow they are celebrating the crisis of the Draghi government.
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