Banks, newspapers, Church, Biden and EU institutions worried about Meloni’s full powers. And Gianni Letta…
Behind the scenes of the Palaces of Roman power, not only political, the words of a few days ago continue to hold sway Gianni Letta who, in fact, despite ministers Tajani and Casellati having tried to throw water on the fire, rejected the constitutional reform desired by the Prime Minister which introduces the direct election of the Prime Minister. Those words are boulders.
The premiership, explained Silvio Berlusconi’s former undersecretary, would “fatally” reduce the powers of the President of the Republic “because the strength that comes from popular investiture is certainly greater than that which comes from Parliament. It is not written in the text of the Ddl but it is obvious that in the dialectic those who are invested by the voters have more strength”. A decisive stop to the direct election of the head of government, the cornerstone of the law imposed by the Frateli d’Italia summit. “In my opinion – insisted the historical right-hand man of the Knight – the figure of the President of the Republic as it is designed, and the interpretation as it was given by individual presidents in compliance with the Constitution, as all constitutionalists today recognize, is that’s fine: I wouldn’t tone it down, I wouldn’t redesign it, I wouldn’t take away any of the prerogatives as they have currently been exercised”.
The interpretation given by qualified sources and at the highest levels of both the majority and the opposition is that if a personality like Gianni Letta, who almost never speaks in public, expresses himself in these clear terms, there is much more behind it. And not just the thought of him. The fear of the majority, Brothers of Italy in the lead, and the belief of the Democratic Party, is that Gianni Letta represents a strong concern of the so-called strong powers, national and international, who strongly fear a Meloni with full powers. Also because the prime minister, according to the bill released by the CDM, could go to the vote and govern alone even with 25% of the votes, obtaining 55% of the seats.
Speaking of Italy, the doubts about the excessive power that the leader of FdI could have in the coming years are in the banking world, first of all the two main institutions namely Intesa Sanpaolo and Unicredit, but also the so-called big newspapers, or the large national press. And here we talk about John Elkannthrough Repubblica and La Stampa, and by Urban Cairo, therefore Corriere della Sera but also La 7. And probably also Confindustria with Il Sole 24 Ore. Concerns, say well-informed people also from Vatican circles. Indeed, of the CEI, therefore of the leaders of the Italian Church.
On the front international too much power in Meloni’s hands wouldn’t be appreciated even by Joe Biden (especially in view of the very difficult challenge with Donald Trump next year for the White House) and therefore would have applied pressure through the US embassy in Rome. But also in Europeand here we talk about the highest institutions (waiting for the vote on 9 June 2024) Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, Charles Michel and Christine Lagarde.
“Letta speaks three times a year if that’s a lot and if he thus enters into the merits of a key reform of the government and in particular of the prime minister it is not a fact that can be classified as a conference debate. There is certainly a project behind it, or in any case there is strong pressure to push Forza Italia to modify the bill in Parliament as much as possible”, explain qualified sources from Fratelli d’Italia. And it is no coincidence that Forza Italia group leader in the Senate Maurizio Gasparri, precisely ad Affaritaliani.it, spoke of various corrective measures including removing 55% of the seats from those who win the elections in the Constitution. The hypothesis of Meloni having full powers is frightening and Gianni Letta’s words, which are not accidental, demonstrate this clearly. It will be a long and open challenge in Parliament, not so much with the opposition but within the centre-right majority itself.
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