Even if the Pd, IV and Forza Italia pretend nothing has happened and make a square around Prime Minister Draghi for a new phase of the government of national unity, the aftermath of the divisions within the parties begin to make the whole castle creak. The center-right is no longer there and to say so is Giorgia Meloni that from a privileged position, that of the opposition, continues to launch a border against its coalition "allies": "The center-right comes out in pieces, it needs to be rebuilt ...".
The League convenes a federal council of deep reflection, while between Giuseppe Conte e Luigi Di Maio now the honeymoon is over, if anything it ever started.
The straw that broke the camel's back was the candidacy, which ended badly, of the Box yourself al Colle, betrayed by 70 francs shooters.
Antonio Tajani, in the meantime, relaunches the 'popular front' Fi-Udc-'totiani '- without Luigi Brugnaro of' Coraggio Italia '- which he had tried to bring to the Quirinale Pier Ferdinando Casini with a pact Ursula.
The first signs of the deep divergences, Adnkronos learns, had already occurred at the last summit of the leaders, the one on the eve of the seventh ballot, held in the offices of the Lega group in Montecitorio, where, almost by consumption, we had reached the name of the president of the Senate, just to avoid a new ballet of 'white' or abstention.
In fact, they say that during the meeting there would have been a hard question and answer between Meloni and Tajani. Subject of the dispute between the leader of Fdi and the blue number two, according to various present, the return to the field 'by Silvio Berlusconi. The idea, launched by Fi to overcome the impasse, of putting the name of Cav. The party and all our parliamentarians asked us to present ourselves in the Chamber under the name of Berlusconi, Tajani would have said, in agreement with Licia Ronzulli, proposing the candidacy of the former premier.
At that point Meloni would have intervened, who would have expressed his opposition, recalling that after the 'step back' of the blue leader there were no longer the political conditions for his reappointment. Fdi, they report, would have explained that if Berlusconi had withdrawn more than a week earlier despite having the votes, there was no need to expose him now to the test of numbers in the Chamber and it would also have been a lack of respect towards the leader of Fi.
We do not accept lessons and advice from anyone, Tajani would have argued. According to some participants, Salvini also agreed on the political opportunity not to 'fish out' Berlusconi. Hence the decision to converge on Casellati, a woman candidate and second position in the state.
On the left they are no better, they are divided into different souls with three party secretaries, Letta, Zingaretti and Renzi.