But what does Renzi want?

(by Francesco Matera) A country in full health emergency with a vaccination plan that goes as slow as a snail, last night 109 thousand vaccinated after a week, 150 thousand vaccines a day travel to Israel. Faced with such a demonstration of inefficiency, the Lombardy Health Councilor, perhaps in a moment of sensory blackout, said that the delays in the Region are due to the fact that doctors and nurses are on vacation. As if to say, there is a war they are bombing us but we have to succumb because the soldiers are on vacation.

To make the situation even more surreal a government crisis in full pandemic, indeed no, perhaps. Matteo Renzi, in an identity crisis, launched the year-end pickaxes at the Conte 2 government. Why? Matteo Renzi can't bear to remain on the corner of the scene and wants to shore up his government posts to decide on the choices to make for the future of the country, to sit in the control room of the national Recovery Plan. Then there is the question of the delegation of the secret services, Renzi cannot bear the idea that Giuseppe Conte, the man who came from nowhere, can have so much power and maybe use it for his political aims.

March 2023, the end of the natural legislature of the government seems far away but it is around the corner and Renzi now wants to build something more solid, since Iv has not taken root as he would have liked, polls in hand do not even reach 4 per cent . The background tells of the ambitions of the senator of Rignano: become the next NATO Secretary General even if Renzi has never said so. It is too early to leave the Italian political scene and an international assignment would sound like exile, golden yes, but it would always be exile.

So what does Renzi want. Perhaps you are afraid that the Conte list, already mentioned several times by the media, could replace and overcome the ambitions of Italia Viva? Establish that political center capable of catalyzing politicians and votes of the disappointed, the discontented.

Returning to the pickaxes at the end of the year, it seemed that everything was going to degenerate just under the days of the Befana on the occasion of the next council of ministers, where the first draft of the Italian Recovery Plan will be presented. At that time, the two ministers of IV have already threatened to ask for resignation.

Today it seems, however, that everything is returning with a painless and interlocutory solution. Yesterday was the day of braking and bridging.

The Corriere della Sera says that those who saw Giuseppe Conte at the top of Palazzo Chigi found him very calm, determined to spend even the last second useful to mend the tattered canvas of relations with Matteo Renzi. They say that the premier wants to go and see the cards of the ally-opponent, because he feels he has not only the Democratic Party and Leu, but also the M5S on his side.

The 5 Stars, a Corsera background reveals, would not hold a government without a Count, confirm the dem. IS the Democratic Party, explains a minister, would not have a government with Salvini and Meloni even if Draghi was leading it.

The premier would have no choice, call Renzi for a confrontation, alone or at the table of leaders, and seek an agreement that saves the Giallorossi government. This is the only way to know the truth about Renzi's pickaxe. If, on the other hand, Renzi's real goal is a government without a Count, the prime minister is not willing to step aside and would have with him the Democratic Party, the M5S and Leu and any responsible persons.

The main road could be a Count ter with a level reshuffle, with Renzi at the Farnesina (this would pave the way for the Italian proposal at the political summit of NATO) and Di Maio at the Interior.

If there is no two-way meeting between Renzi and Conte before the CDM, the truth will come out right in the next high council when the two ministers of IV could resign, formally opening the government crisis.

Meanwhile, the group leader Maria Elena Boschi on Tg4 yesterday held back, saying that Iv "does not want the government crisis" and that the solution is in Conte's hands. The reshuffle, in fact, with Ettore Rosato and Boschi herself already with a ministerial post in her pocket.

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But what does Renzi want?

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