(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Today could be the D-Day. The ruling on the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Edoardo #Rixi, on trial for embezzlement, in reference to the “crazy” expenses in the Region is coming. Any first degree conviction is a reason for resignation for M5S because it is expressly provided for in the contract. The question arises, but is this contract still valid?
The League, for its part, has already armored Rixi saying that in Italy you are not guilty until the third degree of judgment. Then there is the question of Armando Siri who is still hot and undigested by the Northern League. Siri for its part continues to work in the shadows on the Flat Tax at 15 percent.
Case of Maio
Today on the #Rousseau portal the base of 5 Stars is called to decide on the future of Luigi Di Maio. The outcome of the vote seems to have already been written after almost all the pentastellar parliamentarians recognized a collegial error in the failure of the European elections.
The founder of the movement also helped Di Maio Beppe Grillo, who wrote on the Star Blog: "The spread of statements discussing the disappointment of the polls, as if it were a drop in sales for a multinational company, is a wound for me. Luigi has not committed a crime, he is not exposed to a scandal of any kind. This carousel of trust review is already excessive. The battle he was fighting before must continue".
#Grillo then attacked #Salvini"a purely virtual character that flutters in the skies of the country talking about immigrants who hardly leave for a while has received more sympathy than the work that our part of the "government" has done".
So, instead of Ansa, #Casaleggio, the "young": "I always appreciate the courageous choices and in this case even more because Luigi's decision shows not only courage, but also great consistency and respect for a political leader for the principles and values of the M5S".
In this regard, Salvini also sent a message to Di Maio saying: "If the Di Battista line goes ahead at the M5S, the government jumps. There are no alternative majorities with the Scilipoti on duty". The reference to the change of shirt of the former parliamentarian who passed from Di Pietro's IDV to support the Berlusconi government.
Conte and Mattarella
Giuseppe #Conte after having met Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini separately, went up to the Quirinale to report to the President of the Republic, Sergio #Mattarella.
Conte showed moderate optimism to Mattarella as Salvini reiterated that he wanted to go ahead and assured him that he would work in this direction because what interests us, the Northern League leader specified, is that we do things.
However, the concern of Mattarella and Conte is the change in the balance of power between Lega and M5S due to the conflicting and highly agitated moods registered in the House among the majority parliamentarians. The Northern League colonists paw and ask Salvini for a change immediately. We cannot leave the "status quo" after the indication of the Italians. We need to do something credible. Among the various hypotheses that make a government reshuffle with the 29 vote in September.
Salvini, for now, with unusual calm, continues to dictate the priorities of the government agenda: from the flat tax (which according to pentastellate sources would be considered by the Quirinale to be too onerous) to the release of major works, starting with the Tav; from the justice reform to the stop to defense cuts, to a new waste legislation.
A sort of strategy to flush out the allies and make them capitulate definitively accusing them of having brought down the government.
A calmness, studied, that of Salvini which was also demonstrated in the comments, via facebook, to call letter sent from Brussels to Italian accounts: "with respect and without pounding on the table".
Salvini therefore announced that today he will meet the Economy Minister Giovanno #Tria to coordinate the response to the EU. Salvini also said: "Europe sends letters, warnings, infringements, constraints. It seems to me that the world has changed: the only way to lower debt is to invest".
Salvini had already expressed this idea to Conte in the meeting at Palazzo Chigi. Giuseppe Conte, in fact, agreed with the Minister of the Interior that the response to be made to the EU by tomorrow must take into account the positions of the political forces of the majority and those of the League which had a "strong" confirmation from the Italians in the policies implemented and proposed for the future. That is to continue along the path taken: abandoning budgetary rigor and overturning economic policy towards investments and reduction of the tax wedge for businesses and Flat Tax for workers with incomes up to 50 euros gross. A measure that provides for a "deficit" outlay of 30 billion euros.