One step away from the abyss: breaking and counting it, in the Senate Chamber.
It is there, the Conte 2 government. The crisis is screwing up: the new draft Recovery plan, sent to the parties after hours of tension and "irritation" between IV and the allies, does not seem to satisfy Italia alive.
And like a game of poker, after Giuseppe Conte's readiness for dialogue and reshuffling, Matteo Renzi tries to relaunch and leave the crisis match to the prime minister.
"We - says the minister and head of delegation Iv Teresa Bellanova to Omnibus on La 7 - are making a great effort because for me the time is already over. Now we have to say what we want to do: Conte wants to measure himself with the solution of problems then he does not threaten to go to Parliament because you have to go to Parliament, you go to Parliament and you make proposals, if you have the consent of the government, otherwise you pass your hand. We will speak with a document so that no one can reconstruct the background. We do not ask for places in addition, but solutions that have not arrived. Already today there must be very clear signs. We begin to get off the pedestal. Here no one is irreplaceable, I am not, Iv is not, neither is the Prime Minister. Even the Democratic Party has posed problems, then if you want to dismiss everything because you want to isolate Renzi, let them play their games. Even Zingaretti in the past at the table with Crimi and Conte has put points at the table for a progra system.
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Are all problems solved now? ".
The bridges are working to really open the table of confrontation.
But time is running out: a meeting of Conte with the heads of delegation on Friday evening should sign the agreement on the draft of the Recovery plan to be brought to the Council of Ministers in the following hours, probably on Saturday.
Only afterwards - this is the "road map" shared by Conte, Pd, M5s and Leu - would the table on the other issues of the government program and the negotiation for the reshuffle open.
But Renzi wants to see all the papers together and wants Conte to drop the delegation to the Services and restart from resignation and a Conte ter.
A process for which Conte is not available.
If on the Recovery Iv it breaks, the Contiani observe, that it was Renzi who closed the dialogue offered by the premier.
This dynamic is assisted by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, in this observer phase of a crisis that is not in his hands.
The historic moment, with the pandemic biting and the relaunch to be prepared, would advise against opening a government crisis.
But if this happens, in parliamentary circles they exclude the possibility that the head of state will appreciate a government that is born with the sole purpose of avoiding elections.
Andrea Orlando, from the Democratic Party, also says that on the shoulders of a group of leaders - each moved by his own interests - a "friable" majority would be born.
An experiment like this, most people bet, would have a short and difficult life, starting with commissions.
Nicola Zingaretti in the coming hours to the party leadership should indicate the goal of a real relaunch, on schedule and Recovery.
But the Dems warn Renzi that they would not "barricade" against the birth of such an experiment: Goffredo Bettini defines Conte as the "pillar" of the Giallorossi alliance, if he falls he goes to the count in the House and then eventually to the vote.
Wide agreements with Lega and Fdi are not possible, assure the Dems.
And the pro-premier party seems to prevail among the M5s ranks too.
The allies choose Conte.
At this point there are rumors of a split in the Iv groups and the birth of a group with centrists, Maie and former M5s.
At the moment the accounts do not add up, but at least three Renzians would have knocked on the PD door and the contacts between Renzi and Berlusconi to prepare alternative solutions would not have been successful.
A scenario of national unity could be supported by the Knight and also by the League, sources of opposition observe, but the Democratic Party has got in the way and even Fdi may not be there.
It is in this climate that we try to discuss the Recovery plan.
A long push and pull goes on for hours, with Iv's refusal to meet with Minister Roberto Gualtieri, who had seen Pd, M5s and Leu on Wednesday, before reading the new draft of the Recovery.
