AGI – A few hours after the now obvious show down in the government, there is an air of concern at the Quirinale.
Sergio Mattarella is silent, but he is embittered for the precipitate of the crisis at a time when the numbers of the pandemic are rising. In these hours he observes the increasingly confused situation and waits for the Council of Ministers to approve the recovery plan, a minimum mediation obtained to prevent the crisis from overwhelming the country’s possibilities to obtain the necessary resources to get out of the crisis due to the pandemic and restart on a new basis once the tragedy of the virus is over. embittered About what will happen next there are no decisions already made.
The Head of State has examined all the precedents of equally confused situations, has pulled the Constitution out of the drawer and is preparing to assess step by step the conditions that will arise. For tomorrow the resignation of the ministers of Iv from the government has been announced, albeit informally, and a mending of the rift between Renzi and Conte now seems impossible.
What will the premier decide at that point? In these hours the most disparate voices have chased each other, from the desire to go to a count in the classroom, saying goodbye to the hypothesis of a Count ter, to the threat of the whole M5s of not wanting to be in a majority with Iv anymore, cutting the road to a new government with an unchanged majority but another premier.
Certainly the practice foresees that the premier go up to the Quirinale to report the news to the President of the Republic and begin to reveal his intentions to him. At that point there are many possible ways, on paper, and a lot will depend on the words that Conte will use, as well as on the intentions that will be delivered by the other majority parties.
If Conte does not resign, he could ask for the most urgent measures to be put in place in two or three days (a new budget variance, the new refreshment dl, a Dpcm for anticovid measures and the extension of the state of emergency, on which Iv has opened, are expected in the next few days) and then go up again to the Colle. At that point he could announce to the President that he intends to go to the Houses to check the numbers of his government or announce his resignation.
If, on the other hand, Conte resigns immediately, the practice states, the President could immediately accept his resignation or it could send it back to the Houses for verification. But the boatos of Transatlantico report that not even the Democratic Party would look favorably on this last hypothesis. In short, all roads are open. To orient oneself these days, one must keep in mind a golden rule in these situations: everything that is said before the ringing of the bell is pretactic and something that is said in public during the hottest hours does not completely coincide with the positions that are expressed in the enclosure of the Studio alla Vetrata.
It must also be remembered that the Head of State officially enters the field only once the crisis is overt, that is, after the premier’s distrust or resignation. Only if and when the government falls does the President open the Quirinale to the delegations of the parties, to the Presidents emeritus and to the Presidents of the Chambers for consultations. Which in this case, at least as regards the first lap, if they happened, they would last a few hours. Because as Mattarella recalled in his End of Year speech, “no time should be wasted”.
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