What does Mattarella think of Conte?
Moods and whispers from the Quirinale about Conte
"Theses based on nothing" are considered at the Quirinale, according to what the well-informed Marzio Breda reported yesterday in the Corriere della Sera , rumors and little voices on the interest of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, but also on the "pressing" that would be exercised on him from various parts to get rid of the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Moreover, even from the latest polls published today by the Corriere, there is a decline in consensus, as well as weakened by tensions in the majority.
Yet Mattarella would have had and would have reason to be disappointed and to complain of Conte, and even more of his most ardent supporters. Without going back to the so-called "impeachment" threatened in a loud voice by the grillini in 2018 – when Mattarella forced Conte to resign by refusing to sign the list of ministers he had agreed with the candidates and then vice presidents of the Council Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini – it will be enough to remember all the appeals of Mattarella dropped by Conte in recent times to keep more constructive relations with the center-right opposition, considering the viral emergency and those attached and connected. Even today Lina Palmerini in the Sole-24 Ore reports on the "push of the Hill so that the premier makes a synthesis and opens a phase of dialogue"
The opposition will have also put his own, especially in the components of Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, to make cooperation difficult, or something that resembles her, but frankly, Conte has also put his own. Which gave the impression of wanting more to split the opposition than to involve it in the management of various emergencies, betting above all on Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. But the grillini is even more indigestible than the "traitor" Salvini for the story made of "psycho-dwarf" above and below the stages of his shows by the comedian founder, guarantor and so on of the 5 Star Movement.
A few days ago the most contian of newspapers on the square – naturally Il Fatto Quotidiano – included the Quirinale among the sources of disturbance in the work at Palazzo Chigi for the production of the decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers for the containment of viral infections. Then, to tell the truth, President Mattarella was "pardoned" for having also reminded Conte's critics and opponents that the enemy to beware of is only or above all Covid.
If sectors of the majority are really added to Covid in relations with Conte, now only worried in words, to the point of discouraging him or forcing him to resign, even at the cost of reviving the so-called and hated First Republic also the habit of "extra-parliamentary" crises, Mattarella would be forced to think yes – but only then – if and how to replace him, in a creepy scenario anyway, the Corriere quirinalist made clear, even if he did not use these words. More explicitly and clearly instead Marzio Breda has hinted critical – let's call them – felt at the Quirinale in the action of government, lamenting "understatements, delays, inertia" and even "fragile." This is a bit like what Stefano Folli also wrote in Repubblica, reminding Conte that one thing is popularity from polls, albeit now dated, another is the "authority" necessary for a Prime Minister in times of crisis and emergencies like these.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-pensa-mattarella-di-conte/ on Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:25:14 +0000.