Maximum readiness for further tightening, absolute priority the acceleration of vaccines, first steps in the remodeling of the Recovery Plan: phase two of Mario Draghi's arrival at Palazzo Chigi first of all covers these three priorities.
It is always the Covid alert that keeps the Prime Minister's attention very high.
And it is an alert that, in a forthcoming CDM, could lead the government to postpone all the administrative elections scheduled between now and the end of June until after the summer: the Regional elections in Calabria on 11 April, the supplementary ones in Siena, the administrative elections which will be held in about 1200 municipalities.
Including metropolises such as Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin.
The referral is on the table of the owner of the Viminale Luciana Lamorgese
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The investigation has been concluded, the decree law necessary to implement the postponement is missing, which could fall between September and October with the hypothesis of a single date for Calabrian and Municipal Regionals.
The informal ok of party secretaries would be needed, it is explained in ministerial circles.
The postponement could be less convenient for those forces given by the steadily rising polls.
"But thinking about a vote and the rallies that precede it, at a time when there is a fear of a national red zone would be illogical", explains a majority source.
And time is running out.
For the Regionals in Calabria, the government must pass the dl by mid-March.
For administrative offices by the end of April.
It is easier then for an "erga omnes" postponement of the next electoral rounds to be implemented.
There are also two appendages to reinforce the possible move by the government.
The first is the school: further slowdowns in the calendar due to the organization of the polling stations would damage one of the sectors most affected by the pandemic.
The second refers to the words with which President Sergio Mattarella, announcing the appointment of Draghi, underlined the epidemiological risk of a return to voting in the spring.
Words that any majority party would have difficulty, with the contagion curve rising, to contradict.
The Recovery and the vaccine node are the two dossiers that, in a telephone conversation in the afternoon, Draghi then confronts with the president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
An interview that comes at a time when the pressure on Brussels and the EMA is rising from member countries to accelerate the distribution and production of vaccines.
The exit strategy invoked by Matteo Salvini, that of Sputnik, is not contemplated by the Italian government.
"It is not only geopolitical, it is that the doses are few," explains a government source.
But the move by Austria and Denmark to produce vaccines in joint ventures with Israel, therefore with a non-EU country, would not leave the executive indifferent.
Rome, at least for now, wants to act in full synergy with Brussels.
But any EU misstep can cost you dearly.
And the pressing of Rome also extends to another node, that of migrants.
"The need for a European management of migratory flows aimed at a greater proportionality between responsibility and solidarity of the Member States" is in fact the third issue that Draghi faces with von der Leyen in view of the next European Councils.