On the one hand Draghi is under the sword of Damocles of the unions for disagreements on the maneuver with the FIOM metalworkers already fighting with 8 hours of strike and with the CGIL-Cisl-Uil confederations that threaten general abstention from work and on the other he is in the spotlight at the Rome Summit of the Grandi, receiving the compliments of US President Joe BIden already on the eve of the Capitoline meeting: “You are doing a hell of a job”. A: “Bravo Mario for the extraordinary work you are doing in Italy, a country bulwark of democracies” which does no harm, indeed it does very well even in the more specifically European context. Well, especially after the recent approval in the council of ministers of the budget law 2022, to be cleaned up, without upsetting.
Law with thirty billion on the plate that are not petty, allowing – not without limits and contradictions – that expansive maneuver that as Draghi had announced, with the approval of Confindustria and the satisfaction of the markets – creates the conditions to bring Italy back economically in the meantime to the pre-pandemic situation. But not all that glitters is gold. To worry there are the convulsions of the parties, more and more “empty boxes”, with their internal quarrels, with the never dormant desire for power. Parties that, especially after the blow taken by Letta-Pd and Conte-5stelle on the “bega Zan” (not a question of goat wool), are preparing to change pace with the possible end of the “calm” in the relationship between the premier and the political forces that support him in parliament.
Mind you, given the popularity that Draghi continues to enjoy among Italians and given his international consensus, primarily in Europe, here today no party leader and no party that supports him in parliament dares to openly challenge the premier, indeed profound praise even though if with different shades. Everyone – albeit with different tactics – tries to keep the wheel of the head of government by exploiting his wake and, if anything, then groped on the finish line of the great deadlines more or less close (elections of the head of state and then early political elections or not) to mock friends and opponents.
What does it mean? That the parties, ob torto collo, still leave the scene to Draghi, stunned by his efficiency decision-making as a severe family man who makes his children swallow the bitter pill, for their own good. Behind the scenes, however, they are all plotting, each pro domo his own. As always, it will be said. Yes, but this time Italy, left adrift for decades and indebted as never before, can regain international credibility, raise the sails and set sail by aiming for safer landings: if you fail the Recovery Plan challenge, there is no second half, there is no other match, there is no other league.
You leave the field, you leave the game: from all fields and from all games. The recent administrative elections passed with the alarm signal of record abstention (for Letta and the Democratic Party there is the risk of a victory … by Pyrrhus) and partisan interests re-emerged with unions and parties increasingly closed in their respective “trenches corporative ”it will not be easy for Draghi to continue with the pace of decision-making, out of mediations and compromises. But leaving Draghi in Palazzo Chigi is today the only possibility to keep Italy on track, avoiding derailment.
This is possible only by freezing the current structures, giving political-institutional stability for the next year and a half, with Mattarella re-elected pro tempore al Colle and then resigning after a year, with Draghi stable at Palazzo Chigi until the expiry of the legislature, or down. There. There is no other way to get Italy back on its feet, at least, avoiding the crack. And the parties? Forced to swallow the toad. Hoping that the lesson will do him good.
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