The Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi left the NATO summit in Madrid on Wednesday to return to Rome and preside over a meeting of the Council of Ministers on economic measures tomorrow, Thursday, amid tensions in his coalition.
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On the second day of the Atlantic Alliance summit in the Spanish capital, Italy will be represented by Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, confirmed the Government in a statement.
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The Council of Ministers is convened to analyze budgetary measures aimed at containing the rise in energy prices.
However, although the note does not allude to these facts, During Draghi’s absence, his coalition, supported by almost all the parties in the hemicycle, has registered a series of tensionscoming specifically from its two main partners, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League.
It seems to me sincerely serious that a technical prime minister, invested by us, interferes in the life of the political forces that support him.
On the one hand, the leader of the M5S and former prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, denounced today that Draghi had criticized him during a telephone conversation with the party’s founder, Beppe Grillo. Asked about it in Madrid, Draghi assured that his government “is not in danger.”
The prime minister advanced this Wednesday that he has already spoken with Conte and that they will do so again tomorrow to meet “as soon as possible.”
Other tensions came from the Matteo Salvini League, which criticized the parliamentary initiatives of the M5S and the Democratic Party (PD, centre-left), also in the coalition, to approve bills to legalize cannabis and to give nationality to the children of immigrants who have been studying in the country for five years.
Salvini summoned his deputies today and denounced “the obvious will of the left to blow up the government”, given that it is staunchly opposed to those bills.
The Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, who has just left the M5S causing a split that has deprived him of almost half of his parliamentary group, reproached these two parties for their attitude.
“Since days, while the Italian Government is involved in important international summits, nothing is done other than fueling tensions with debates and surreal statements that clearly threaten its continuity,” he lamented.
And he added: “These dynamics run the only risk of weakening Italy’s credibility, blurring the achievement of important objectives such as the maximum ceiling on the price of gas and causing us to lose the funds of the Recovery Plan.”
Di Maio asked his partners to “put the interest” of the country first, above political struggles. The Italian Government is experiencing these tensions a few months before the start of the electoral campaign for the general elections next spring.
EFE
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