(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Oppositions filed a motion of no confidence to the Minister of Grace and Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, due to the approximately 500 releases (many bosses under the 41bis regime, returned home) that occurred during the emergency of the pandemic and due to the heavy accusations by PM Di Matteo on the failure to appoint as head of the DAP. Since that day, everything has happened in the building in via Arenula, with the resignation of the head of the Dap (disorders in prisons) and the head of the cabinet of the minister for wiretapping with one of the most oligarchic currents of the judiciary, the one whose ranks were held by the judge Palamara.
In a normal country, a minister, after a sequence of events of this nature, should have taken a step back, resigned. Instead, no: he defended himself in the Chamber by discharging all responsibility to the surveillance judges, scattered throughout Italy. So a motion, the one presented by the opposition, "sacrosanct", because never as this time is it based on "strong" grounds that question the action of a minister and the transparency of one of the fundamental powers on which the democratic state rests , the judicial one.
But from the premises, it will end, as is usual these days in "tarallucci and wine". The motion was voted today in the Senate, where the government has a "ballerina" majority, due to the contrasting moods of Italia Viva which has 17 senators in the Chamber.
Renzi, the talented Matteo, sees a tempting opportunity to raise the bar and make the shopping list, with a truly delicious side dish: a nice reshuffle. Rumors of the Palace say that names are already circulating: Gennaro Better (o Lucia Annibali) as Undersecretary for Justice e Luigi Marattin to the presidency of the Budget Committee of the Chamber, it is not excluded that even Boschi, the one “hated” by the grillini for Banca Etruria, may aspire to a level ministry. Just yesterday the blonde Maria Elena was at Palazzo Chigi for a meeting with Prime Minister Conte's chief of staff, Gregoracci, many claim that she also met the same Count. On the table, the revision of the statute of limitations, the start of the shock plan with the unblocking of the construction sites and the family act, after having already put in the drawer the regularization of migrants, colored by the tears of Bellanova, the cut of Irap and the measures financial for schools, kindergartens and summer camps.
It looks like a market. Parliament should focus its vote on merit on the work of the security guard Bonafede and his ministry and not allow the motion to be used to bargain armchairs and political measures: "All of this is shameful". In this regard, the silence of the President of the Republic Mattarella is "deafening".
In all this Giuseppe Conte is not afraid that the government may fall because he knows very well that everyone is in the chair. As Corsera writes, if, on the other hand, there are armchairs, government reshuffles or attempts to impose the agenda by a 2 percent party, then no, Conte is not dealing with this table. The premier also found himself facing the PD wall. Nicola Zingaretti he was inflexible and so was Dario Franceschini and other big guys from the majority party. "If this time the president gives in to Renzi's diktat, it will mean that he will govern with Italia Viva and not with us", So a minister of the pd.
At Palazzo Chigi they confirm that there are convergences on the issues, but they let it be known that Renzi must get the story of reshuffling or resigning Bonafede out of his head.
The motion presented by the center-right, as expected, was rejected with 160 votes against, 131 in favor and one abstention on 297 senators present. Amen!