Stefania Craxi, Senator of Forza Italia: "The building built to be the seat of the National Fascist Party cannot become the seat of other parties nor the annex of aspiring ducets".
(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Apparently there is a new seat of the shadow government, the Farnesina. Not a little embarrassment created the photo of Luigi Di Maio with all his ministers at the Farnesina table at Palazzo Chigi.
The grillini of Luigi Di Maio's entourage try to play down but confirm that the Council of Ministers "shadow", also writes the Corriere della Sera, will return to meet weekly.
Luigi Di Maio with this move seeks to weaken the premier Giuseppe Conte who many already indicate him as the next political leader of the Movement. Emblematic the night before Giuseppe Conte went up to the Quirinale to dissolve the reserve for the task of forming the new government: a furious argument would have affected Di Maio and Conte on the name of the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council. Giuseppe Conte wanted a neutral call, while Di Maio imposed the most faithful Riccardo Fraccaro. "Or so or skip everything", The threat of Di Maio to Giuseppe Conte.
Luigi Di Maio wants to recover the scene and apparently he is succeeding. To help also the statements to the press of the PD Paola De Micheli (Transport), which immediately put in difficulty the allies on identity issues such as Tav, Gronda and Autostrade.
Nicola Zingaretti, fearing a return to the grueling quarrels of the yellow-green government, asked the leaders of the Democratic Party not to collect the provocations, because the government has three days to live and the tensions are already potentially explosive.
A boiling pot
In the pot now the negotiations for the posts of undersecretaries and deputy ministers and the confidence in the two Houses with a dancer majority in the Senate. Gianluigi Paragone will deny confidence in Conte. Mario Giarrusso is evaluating. Leilo Ciampolillo accuses the Minister of Teresa Bellanova of being "at the service of Coldiretti and the lobby". Al Nazareno is already red alert and Goffredo Bettini, among the first to support the agreement with the 5Stelle, senses the danger of replicating the scheme of the perpetual brawl, which killed the yellow-green government: “Woe to you if the ping pong of declarations begins. . ".
The WhatsApp chats of deputies, senators and aspiring undersecretaries 5 Stars are in turmoil: "We have become a kind of youth section of the Democratic Party». They complain, writes Corriere della Sera, that the new minister Fabiana Dadone has been "miraculously" by the pink quotas, they venture that "Zingaretti and Franceschini let us play where we cannot do damage», That is, on topics such as environment and innovation. They talk of "unbalanced power relations" and a "retreating" M5S, "sold out to the enemy", which "left the key ministries to the Democratic Party for fear of losing their place in Parliament".
Luigi Di Maio, meanwhile, is implementing another strategy. He promised that the undersecretaries of the Farnesina "will be valued" and therefore will often fly abroad in place of the head of diplomacy. With this move, many see the intention of paving the way for a government post to the "brother of the Movement" Alessandro Di Battista.
Long live the Government
It is not comforting to see these political tactics even before the government has received parliamentary confidence. The conditions are being created to repeat the painful and exhausting film already seen with the previous government experience. It is clear that at the center of the debate there are not the Italians and Italy but only the ambition to hold positions of power. Among the professional politicians there are the 5 Stars who represent the "common" citizens who have had a unique opportunity, unimaginable in the past, to hold government posts and sit where the Laws are made.
Unfortunately it is difficult not to succumb to the flattery of the "muffled" world of those upper floors in Rome and it is difficult to go back to the real world. The 5 Stars to constitute a long-life political force must have the courage not to forget their origin and not to compromise dangerous like the one made with the Democratic Party, on pain of extinction. There is hope and it is in the Senate on Tuesday.