(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The "soap opera" Italian Government Crisis continues. Every day a twist that sends all political scientists and constitutionalists into a tailspin. Yesterday the Senate voted to schedule the no-confidence motion presented by the League to the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte. Lega, Forza Italia and Fratelli d'Italia would have liked to vote for it today after 16.00 while M5S, PD and others first want to hear the communications from Giuseppe Conte scheduled for 20 August. The center-right proposal was not approved by the Chamber.
Before the voting, outside the Chamber, Senator PD Matteo #Renzi had held a press conference, party secretary style"tried to highlight the line of the impending VAT increase to justify the approach to the Movement of Beppe Grillo, speaking of an Institutional Government, or a legislature".
Salvini during his speech in the classroom, in fact, has repeatedly mentioned Renzi, guilty in his opinion of having moved the first plots with the 5 Stars, and then launched a provocation - proposed to the grillini: "is good for cutting the 345 MPs, we accept, but then immediately to the vote".
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A 360 ° change of course by the leader of the Carroccio who put everyone in the corner, even the Quirinale.
The exit of the Northern League leader, writes Breda in Corriere della Sera "changes the cards" in the course of the crisis, assuming a scenario that "is neither in heaven nor on earth". Thus, in no uncertain terms, those who are close to the head of state in these hours define it and report his moods. An absolute risk, in short. An institutionally incorrect move, as well as ungrammatical from the point of view of the balance between powers. How else to define the proposal of the outgoing Interior Minister to the now former grillino partner to proceed urgently ("returning here in the Chamber tomorrow too", he thundered) to the fourth and final vote on the law to cut 345 parliamentarians, and then freeze it five years and in the meantime go back to the polls immediately and close the legislature, pretending that the law has not been approved? Of course, we are already in the electoral campaign. Indeed, it would be fair to say that we have been there seamlessly since the (failed) Renzian referendum of 2016 to change the Constitutional Charter.
The idea that you want to bring the political challenge to a constitutional law that modifies the rules of Parliament in depth, believing that it can postpone its entry into force according to your own calculations of convenience, is simply inadmissible. And not only because it does not deal with Article 138 of the Charter, where certain margins are expected for any requests for a referendum, after such a vote. How much because the provocation constitutes, in fact, yet another fracture of a system that by now would be expected to be put into liquidation hastily.
Mattarella now has to think about what he will have to do after 20 August when the government crisis will be "formalized". A "government" between PD and M5S would not be credible because they were offended almost dead until yesterday. Then Di Maio made it clear that he does not want to sit at the table with Matteo Renzi. How can Luigi not sit at the table with Renzi, if most of the parliamentarians in office are actually Renzians?
The "governicchio" we are talking about these days would only slow down Italy further, given the foreseeable friction in the Chamber that would be created. A solution from the Mattarella cylinder could surprise you: a timed technical government to secure Italy's accounts and new elections already in the spring of 2020. Also because Mattarella has always said that any nascent government must have a credible perspective.