27 May "redde rationem" or détente? Di Maio and Salvini's strategy

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Lo #spread yesterday stood at 281 base points. The constant quarrels between Di Maio and Salvini is a tempting opportunity for the markets to keep Italy on a leash. Luigi Di Maio warns: "Just shoot from irresponsible. We cannot do the 3% of the deficit-GDP ratio".

Matteo Salvini, instead, he replies: "One must and declares himself ready to break even the 130 140% debt parameter. We pull straight until unemployment is halved, and if someone in Brussels complains we will get a reason for it". Yesterday the EU Commission threatened an infringement procedure, where the aim is to breach the 3% of the deficit / GDP ratio. 

The dilemma of the Council of Ministers

Between denials and faint confirmations then the official one has been had: The Council of Ministers of next Monday is confirmed.

The agenda, reduced to the bone, focuses on the appointments of the new State General Accountant and the Commander of the Guardia di Finanza. The appointments of all the deputy directors of intelligence services will probably also be discussed.  

Salvini, on the other hand, tends more and more to create the "vulnus" of something that will happen the day after the elections of May 26 and pushes to be able to "decree" on Monday on autonomy and security. Di Maio, in this regard, teases the government ally: "Offended by the #Siri case, he refuses a government summit before the meeting at Palazzo Chigi". A summit that, instead, the number two of the Lega Giorgetti, considers appropriate.

In fact, after the last council of ministers that sanctioned the removal of Siri, Matteo Salvini no longer met and spoke with the prime minister Giuseppe Conte and with the vice premier Luigi Di Maio.

The "soft war" also takes place in the Chamber where the League presented amendments to the growth decree on the family package - baby bonuses and diaper deductions - slowing down the waved provision to Di Maio, in "electoral promise" format.

The Five Stars, on the other hand, as a countermeasure, have included in the Calabria decree the "anti-recommended" rule on appointments in the ASL. A question and answer that harms the Italians. There is discussion and squabbling about nothing, while Italy continues its drift towards unexplored shores.

Salvini then does not stop his instincts e provokes Di Maio"There is too much tuning between Pd and M5S". And the leader of the M5S replies: "No tuning. And the League that is moving to ultra-right positions".

In the meantime, at the Quirinale, are the technical tests of elections: technical government, an Earl with reshuffle or advance of the elections?

With Lega and 5 Stars at loggerheads the President of the Republic Sergio #Mattarella is worried about the next budget law, too important to be left to the conflicting moods of two political forces now close to divorce.

The challenges relate to the skyrocketing public debt and deficit with growth approaching zero. Then there is the ax of the VAT increase to be avoided with thirty billion euros.

A very difficult match for the Head of State for which he would already be working day and night to be ready for the 27 May with "credible" solutions.

Then there is the other reading. The 27 May, could end all and the two majority parties could converge again by resetting the strategy on the #government agreement. This reading, however, may not be feasible in view of the new approval percentages that will have #Lega and #5Stelle in the aftermath of the European election results.

27 May "redde rationem" or détente? Di Maio and Salvini's strategy