The League does not participate in the Council of Ministers, Matteo Salvini does not send, at the highest level of the Government, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Massimo Garavaglia ed Erika Stefani. The decision to insist on the reform of the land registry, and the method, for having asked for a "confidence in the dark". It's a "serious gesture ", replies Draghi. And he adds that it is a Salvini "explain it", Because the delegation reflects principles"shared " from the Lega, which had at its disposal "sufficient elements to evaluate ". The Northern League leader denies it: "The text does not respect the agreements". Between ministers and undersecretaries there are questions about the real significance of Salvini's gesture.
So on the Land Registry in the press release of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
"The introduction of regulatory and operational changes aimed at ensuring the emergence of non-stacked properties and land is envisaged. It is also envisaged that a procedure will be launched which will lead to the integration of the information on the buildings currently present in the Cadastre, through the recording for each real estate unit of the relative asset value, based, where possible, on the normal values expressed by the market and introducing periodic adjustment mechanisms. However, this intervention has no tax impact.
The new information will not be made available before January 1, 2026 and is intended to provide an updated photograph of the Italian cadastral situation. The cadastral estimates, the rents and the assets for the determination of taxes remain the current ones. The new information collected will therefore have no value in determining either the taxes or the relevant income for social benefits ".
The crisis
There are those in the government who suspect that Salvini is ready to throw in the towel. In the evening, writes the Ansa, however, the news of contacts for a meeting between the premier and the Northern League to overcome the misunderstandings leaked.
Chronicle of a difficult day close to the administrative elections that made it official debacle of the cdx and of the Lega in first place. At 14 pm the ministers arrive at Palazzo Chigi for the control room on the delegation that draws up the tax reform. For the League instead of Giorgetti there is Garavaglia. The Minister of Tourism listens to Franco's illustration then says he has "a duty" to inform the secretary, leaving the meeting.
Giorgettiinstead, he would have announced to Draghi about his intention not to participate in the CDM.
The land registry reform does not go down, explain the leaguers, but also the fact that the drafts have been sent to the ministers "Half an hour before the control room""We cannot work without having seen the cards. Nothing against Draghi but either he delivers them to us in time or he will have to do it himself: it would not be serious and correct to vote on trust“, Leaks from League sources.
Andrea Orlando of the Democratic Party already speaks of political problem for the absence of the League, while Forza Italy he strongly supports the text, underlining that it "will not raise taxes", as guaranteed by Draghi.
Mario Draghi, laconic at the press conference says: "I take note", then specifies, "the commitment that the government takes today is that" with the reform of the land registry, which postpones the revision of the annuities to 2026, no one will pay more or less "and every decree delegated on Irpef, VAT , Irap "will have a system that does not intend to increase revenue but to decrease it". And not only "it is not the last word", because Parliament has already given its guidelines and will have a say, but the League itself had been fully informed.
Dragons: "If there are other political implications for Salvini, he must say so. But it is difficult to say whether the government is strengthened or weakened by the administrative vote ”.
In close contact with the Northern League leader he replied through a press conference in the House, in which he said he trusted Draghi, but not the proxy: "It is not the horoscope, it is not possible to have half an hour to analyze the future of the Italians. There is no agreement in the text ", he says, denying the premier's claims.
Giorgia Meloni applauds the Lega's initiative but Giorgetti's silence weighs on everyone.
There could be a clarification, with a meeting between Draghi and Salvini, in the coming days.
The reaction of the other government forces
Salvini's is a "very serious" gesture, they say almost in unison Enrico Letta, which convenes an urgent summit in the Nazarene, e Giuseppe Conte. Fi's support for the reform gives someone in the center-left hope that the League will lift the trouble from the government. Others interpret the gesture as a game entirely within the League, a way of Salvini to emphasize his leadership. Draghi, for his part, goes straight and goes on calling for the first control room on the Pnrr on Thursday.