The prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, accepted Matteo Renzi's request for a meeting next week.
In the aftermath of the challenge on the premier and on the transformation of citizenship income, the leader of Italia viva announces the intention to 'put an end to the theater', because we don't want to break, but we need clarification. Ok by the premier: "Renzi asked me for a meeting - said the head of government - and I have already replied that I am well available, my door has always been open and will always be open: surely we will see you next week".
THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF MATTEO RENZI
"Our goal is to help the country whether we continue to be in the majority or the majority is another, as evoked by those who think of the replacement with managers, which may occur in the coming weeks, completely legitimate. L election of the mayor of Italy and the transformation of citizenship income from subsidy to tax aid for businesses workers are among Italia Viva's priorities for the country. There are - said Renzi - two examples of good functioning: the reconstruction of the Ponte di Genova and the Expo in Milan. So our proposal is to put the commissioners in the most important construction sites in this country. Put a hundred commissioners in this country and Italy turn it in. To get Italy back in motion, the commissioner structure is there. only viable solution. For us it is the country's priority. Without an unblocking of construction sites, the economic crisis that could reach our country, which we are reasonably going to live, will be even more serious. I think the cleanest thing is to see Conte next week. The telenovelas work when there is an element of clarity. We need a form of transparent clarity . I asked Conte to see him next week , if he finds it useful. Next week I expect to be able to put an end to this theater . Yesterday the Prime Minister, after my intervention in the Senate, sent me a kind message. We've written to each other these days and I think the cleanest, most serious thing is to see us in person next week. We have no desire to break, but we try to find compromises as long as possible. A clarification will be needed. I had given myself a span of time until Easter. Maybe I was too soft, the topic of some form of clarification arises. We - argued Renzi - have been the banks of common sense. We will continue to do so whether we are in the majority or in the opposition. The wiretapping decree is not trusted by a single minister. Grasso is not yet among the regulatory sources. His assessments of what the motion of no confidence is can be found in the Senate regulation and not in Grasso's broad mind. If Grasso has an interest in seeing a motion of no confidence in a minister he has only to wait . I - finally said the leader of Iv - are because Autostrade pays for what happened, you pay a lot. I hope there is no one who, in the name of populism, wages a battle after which the state pays the highways. "
"I was the mayor: the fear of tax damage on one side and abuse of office on the other risks creating a blockage, first psychological and then regulatory. If I have to risk my home or maybe, with the abuse of office, I am sentenced at first instance for an offense that may seem bagatellar, the blockade is on small and medium-sized works ".
"Who are those responsible? It is funny that you ask me. In the newspapers there are, not denials, some statements by people approached. And then there is a completely legitimate position of an important part of the coalition, some of the major thinkers of the Democratic Party who said: we replace Iv with those responsible ".
Meanwhile, the Senate confirmed the government's confidence in the wiretapping decree law with 156 votes in favor, 118 against and no abstention. After the ok, the measure now lands in the Chamber. Expires on February 29. Matteo Renzi did not participate in the vote on trust. As is clear from the printouts of Palazzo Madama, he is on leave. At 10.30 he held a press conference in a Senate room. The leader of Iv Matteo Renzi was absent, who in the meantime held a press conference in the Senate on the shock plan for the infrastructures, with representatives of the Iv-Psi group and made it known that he had asked for a meeting with President Conte. In the House, Italia viva voted ten times in disagreement with respect to the government's opinion on the agendas of the Milleproroghe decree.