All the leaders in comparison.
The stage of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio will be the first to host them together,
just over twenty days before the elections.
The traditional workshop, which brings together the elite of finance and politics, in the past has served governments as a thermometer of the consensus of the economic-entrepreneurial world on reforms and strategic directions.
Today will be an
unprecedented pre-election exam
for those who are candidates to lead Italy after 25 September.
In the busy program of the final day,
many ministers of the outgoing government
will be protagonists .
Spotlights on those engaged in the election campaign.
On the new deal of competences for Italy's competitiveness, Maria Stella Gelmini and Andrea Orlando, allies who have been lost after the break between the Action and the Democratic Party, will confront each other.
Giancarlo Giorgetti will talk about competitiveness, Mara Carfagna about enabling reforms for the PNRR.
The
highlight is set at noon
, with Carlo Calenda, Giuseppe Conte (in video link), Enrico Letta, Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani.
The formula should be that
of a two-hour 'round the table'
, moderated by the editor of the Corriere della Sera, Luciano Fontana.
After the first tests in the squares, on social networks (with the rush of many to land on TikTok in these days) and in institutional events such as the Cl Meeting in Rimini (where, however, the leaders had reserved spaces, and Conte was not invited ), now the proposals and positions of the parties will be measured with an audience of industrialists, bankers, financiers, economists, managers and administrators.
Ten years ago these days at the Forum Mario Draghi was celebrated for the ECB's anti-spread 'bazooka',
in the past this audience has not spared criticism and cold reactions to the leaders,
and in general has always shown fear of political instability.
The appointment on Lake Como has often been a severe examination for measures and reforms, such as amnesties or Article 18, but also for current issues for decades, such as pensions and Alitalia, also on the table in this election campaign.
In 2013 a survey among the participants rejected the decision of the Letta government to remove the IMU, three years later the welcome was warm for the then Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who also made a lot of positive judgments on the institutional referendum, but then failed the polls.
2017 at the Ambrosetti Forum paraded (without ever being photographed together) by aspiring premier Salvini and Luigi Di Maio, who would meet months later together with the government, as deputy of Conte.
Last year the Northern League leader was instead side by side with Meloni, "betrothed" who did not hesitate to talk about "technical government tests", driving away the rumors of tensions.
Now, polls in hand, they could speak of dress rehearsals, but in the match inside the center-right for Palazzo Chigi some nervousness still resists.