Government, hunt for Draghi's replacement: Brunetta, Cartabia and Franco on pole

Quirinale, it’s official: Mario Draghi is on the field for the presidency of the Republic

It’s official. The prime minister’s year-end press conference removed all doubts. Mario Draghi is ready to move to the Quirinale. His words are very clear, unequivocal. The key points are when he stated that all the objectives of the NRP have been achieved, that the projects will go on regardless of who will be at Palazzo Chigi and who he is a “grandfather at the service of the institutions, the Parliament decides “.

Not only, Super Mario he also said the important thing is that there is a large majority in support of the government. Translation: the premier is officially a candidate for the Quirinale and announces, between the lines, that he is ready to indicate a prime minister who has the same parliamentary base to get to the end of the legislature. In the front row, as is well known, the ministers Vittorio Colao, Daniele Franco and Marta Cartabia. Nor should the hypothesis be ruled out that the most senior minister, or Renato Brunetta.

Draghi’s words did not please him at all Silvio Berlusconi, engaged for weeks to find the numbers to attempt the climb to the Quirinale. But also Pd and M5S have doubts on the election of the head of the executive at Colle. It is clear that Draghi, if he is really a candidate, must be elected on the first ballot, when the qualified majority of two thirds.

Otherwise, where cross vetoes and snipers prevail, it would open an unprecedented institutional chaos. If Draghi fails the election at the Colle at the first vote, the government will fall immediately and the political scenario will be uncertain, to say the least. Now it will be necessary to see what the table between the political forces scheduled for early January will produce after the final ok at the Budget Law for 2022, but there is no doubt about one point: Draghi is on the field for the presidency of the Republic.