Conte wants to go on, but the Colle's approval is needed first

The Head of State followed the debate and the vote of the Senate from the Quirinale, carefully observing the fibrillations of recent days. The Agi writes that the President of the Republic is sorry that, in a climate like this, the crisis has not been resolved. The Senate gave Conte confidence with a relative majority, 156 votes against the 161 needed. A result that from the parliamentary point of view would allow him to continue government action. On the political side it was a clear defeat, because the executive does not seem to have the solid support that a government would need in this particular historical moment. Now President Mattarella is waiting to know the evaluations that the Prime Minister will make, and with him his majority. Conte, as he anticipated, will want to expand and consolidate the majority even with those forces with which he did not want to speak before, forces that will surely then beat money, placing him more and more hostage among a thousand contradictions of a majority born out of pure political opportunity.

At the end of the very long debate in the Chamber, Conte's tweet late in the evening:“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 ".  

With 156 votes in favor il government plans to move forward, without yet having heard the opinion of the Head of State. THE there were 14016 abstentions. The verdict of the Palazzo Madama Chamber comes marked by controversy. President Casellati blocks the vote: the former 5S Ciampolillo and Nencini arrive on the edge and manage to vote, in support of the government, only at the last minute. Lega and FdI protest, announcing that they will appeal to the Colle. Italia Viva confirms the abstention, as a sign of "readiness", albeit in time, to discuss again with the majority. 

The senators led by Matteo Renzi are currently holding the yellow-red executive hostage: if they were added to the opposition, at Palazzo Madama the balance of power would change, writes the Ansa (without Nencini, there are in fact 17 in all, including a senator absent for Covid, and therefore added to the 140 no of the opposition they would exceed the current majority ed). In the Chamber as in the committees, paralyzing parliamentary activity. The premier also puts it in the minutes that there is a "problem of numbers": "If they are not there, the government goes home", he says plainly in front of the senators. Where he also engages in a duel with his now rival Renzi: the former premier chooses to intervene in a general discussion, so as to guarantee the premier's reply. She accuses him of "Not to have gone up to the Quirinale for fear" and to close in "a harmful castle". Like the center-right, he talks about "indecorous market for armchairs"And with an apocalyptic tone returns to repeat the need for a change of pace, from school to economy," or our children will curse us, "he says.

"There was a very long transfer market and at the end very disappointing numbers. A country in crisis cannot be governed with these numbers. We are absolutely willing to discuss everything, except with the right. Even a government of national unity ... there are many possibilities but Conte thinks more of the chair than of the country". Matteo Renzi said this at Porta a Porta

"If they have a few more votes it is thanks to two of Forza Italia who voted like the 5s and voted senators for life". Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, who together with the leader of FdI, Giorgia Meloni, want to go up to the Hill to ask for elections. In the coalition there is growing apprehension about the blue group's holding at Palazzo Madama and in general about the future of Silvio Berlusconi's party. After constant assurances that the group would be 'united and compact', clear cracks emerged. Causin and Rossi, the two FI senators who voted yes to trust, "are out of the party: voting with the government in this case is not a question of conscience". Antonio Tajani, vice president of Forza Italia, spoke to the Senate on the transatlantic.

Some points of Conte's speech. “A topic touched by Senator Drago is the demographic decline: it is a very serious problem, it is one of the most severe drops in recent years. Years ago the same thing happened in Germany. If we don't act now in time, we risk compromising our children's future. Structured economic investments are needed, we must invest in the future and we cannot do so by creating a government crisis or trying to bring down a government. Among other things, the reform of the single monthly allowance for over 12 million children will start from July, a project initiated by the minister of Iv Bonetti ”.

“Many observations concerned the our decline in GDP and the consistency of refreshments. It does not at all correspond to the truth that Italy is the first to fall stronger than GDP. Although we were first hit by the pandemic in the first three quarters of 2020, the trend decline in GDP was the same as in France, lower than Spain and the United Kingdom ", added Conte

“The rebound in the third quarter was among the highest in Europe, 15,9% - said the prime minister -. The latest data push us to confirm a 2020% decline for 9, significantly lower than that expected in the summer and less than other European countries. Has it been said that we have given less refreshments than other countries? It is an unfounded claim. Thanks to that safety net, GDP fell less than expected and the deficit was also offset ”.

The premier also spoke of covid and school: “An entire chapter of Recovery is dedicated to education - he underlined -. The epidemiological curve shows no signs of improving. We are concerned but we will continue to do everything, the goal is face-to-face teaching ".

“Renzi has reconstructed the reasons for discussing trust today. However, it does not seem to me that when we dealt with concrete issues, a solution was not found. The Recovery Plan was not elaborated in some obscure cellar of Palazzo Chigi but in bilateral meetings with all the ministers, even those of IV - added Conte-. The draft, which you also wanted to destroy in the media, was the result of a first bilateral confrontation with the ministers ”.

“On Recovery we needed a confrontation, a collegial moment, because the problem of strategic choices remained, to bring out the policy, to give a vision. But the collegial comparison can also be done with calm tones and loyal collaboration. The final effect - he noted - was to block the Recovery for 40 days: we could have met and in about twenty days give the Parliament an updated version that has been improved also thanks to your contribution, but thanks to all the majority forces and no one can claim the truth in the most profitable solutions for the country ”.

“Did you feel that the control room was not acceptable - asked the Prime Minister controversially -? But when was it never discussed? The result is that now we must hurry and the work is urgent, because the EU is also asking us to. When you choose the path of dialogue, and you know it, you have never found closed doors. At a certain point you chose the path of aggression and media attacks, you began to speak outside and not inside. We respect it but can we say that perhaps it is not the best choice in the interests of the country? ”.

Then the reply to Renzi on the 'armchairs': “Armchairs? When I hear this word - he said - I am not ashamed to say that we are sitting in these armchairs. It is not important - I tell the citizens - to say 'I'm not interested in an armchair' but to be interested in sitting with discipline and honor ”. “I have often defended your requests - says the prime minister to Italia Viva - but at a certain point you took a different path, which is not that of loyal collaboration. Let's say it in front of everyone ”. "We were already working on the end-of-term pact. Immediately after the possible trust we will evaluate a topic we were already discussing: how to strengthen the government team " Conte concludes the reply to the Senate.

Renzi irrepressible in the Senate

“Mr. President, if you speak of an incomprehensible crisis, I will explain the reasons that brought our experience to an end - begins leader Iv -. It is not the most beautiful government in the world: we think there is a need for a stronger government, we do not think that the narrative of 'other countries copy us' will suffice. An institutional crisis has not yet been opened because you have not resigned ”. 

“She was afraid to go up to the Colle because she chose a castling which I hope is useful for you but I think it is harmful for the institutions ", added the former prime minister. "The institutional crisis is not open but Italy is experiencing a health and economic crisis", Renzi explains, underlining how Italy is the country with the "highest number of Covid deaths in relation to the population". “We have been asking for a change for months, it is not true that we have been irresponsible, we have been too patient. This is a “kairos”, an opportune moment, now or never we can have a discussion, ”he continued.

“He changed the third majority in three years, he ruled with Matteo Salvini - added Renzi -. Today I know that he is the reference point of progressivism and I am happy about it, but he signed the Salvini decrees and quota 100. Now he is preparing for the third different majority but spare us to say that the Biden agenda is his agenda after saying that Trump's agenda was his agenda. If he goes to the UN general assembly and claims sovereignty, he cannot call himself anti-sovereign, if he goes to the school of Siri and calls himself populist, now he cannot call himself anti-populist. He cannot change his ideas to keep the chair ”. 

"When you are involved in politics - he said - you can also give up an armchair not an idea, I hope that it focuses on ideas and not the exchange of seats because the country does not deserve an unseemly market". 

Conte wants to go on, but the Colle's approval is needed first