Julio Algañaraz
01/25/2021 16:01
Clarín.com
World
Updated 01/25/2021 4:01 PM
Time is up and the Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, will present his resignation to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday.
Thus the consultation mechanism that lasts several days is started.
The dialogue will surely culminate with Mattarella's decision to ask the premier to try to form a new government, already baptized Conte 3, after a few days of consultations at the Quirinal presidential palace.
During a good part of the day, the news did not officially confirm that Conte had decided to advance his resignation to this Monday.
The mobilization was general but at night it was announced that this Tuesday Conte will visit President Mattarella in the Quirinal at nine in the morning and
will present his resignation
.
In the evening there were also meetings of the general staff of the Democratic Party and the 5-Star Movement, the two main forces of the official alliance.
It transpired that Prime Minister Conte will announce his resignation to his ministers, which is equivalent to that of the entire government before meeting President Mattarella.
The "Conte 3" would be born with the vital support of legislators, especially in the Senate, liberals, Christian Democrats and independents who have broken with their respective parties, which they call "the pro-European builders."
The Italian president will immediately open consultations with institutional personalities and political parties to ask for their proposals to overcome the crisis.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi encourages the idea of advancing the general elections in Italy.
Photo: EFE
Early elections
The center-right opposition will tell Mattarella that the only fundamental solution is to
call early general elections for two months from now
.
The League of sovereignist Matteo Salvini, Brothers of Italy of Giorgia Meloni and Forza Italia of the three times former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, would win the absolute majority according to all the polls.
Conte needs to give life to his third experience in a row to last the two years until the end of the current Legislature, in March 2023. He is
in difficulties in the Senate
, where he has a relative majority.
Once the president grants him the mandate to form a new government and submits it to the parliamentary vote of confidence, his most difficult mission will be to convince groups of centrist deputies and senators, former Christian Democrats, liberals and even loose legislators who have broken with their respective parties, so that they enter their government or at least support it in Parliament.
To avoid a showy flight of parliamentarians from Forza Italia to the shops of the future Conte government, Salvini and Giorgia Meloni told Berlusconi that they are
willing to support him in order for him to be elected President of the Republic.
A year from now, in January 2022, Parliament will be convened to elect Sergio Mattarella's successor.
Berlusconi would see his long life crowned, he has turned 84, with the most prestigious position in the country.
But to achieve this it is necessary for Conte to fail to form his third government and to go to the early general elections immediately.
Berlusconi president, Matteo Salvini prime minister, Giorgia Meloni vice.
A nightmare scenario for adversaries who control a struggling government.
Prime Minister Conte said Monday that his objective is "an agreement that gives a clear political perspective to the government until the end of the legislature."
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi distanced himself from Giuseppe Conte's government and precipitated the crisis.
Photo: ANSA
Within a week Conte discovered that
these calculations are in serious jeopardy
.
Former premier Matteo Renzi, who broke with the Democratic party and now has his own party, Italia Viva, launched an offensive against him that has put him on the ropes.
Renzi withdrew his government ministers and his 23 deputies and 18 senators from the PD, leaving the government in the minority in the Senate.
Conte narrowly escaped the vote of confidence by seizing loose senators who allowed him to retain a relative majority of 156 votes, when he needed 161 in the Upper House to obtain an absolute majority.
Economic debacle
The prime minister has been trapped in Renzi's maneuvers, while
the country is going through the worst crisis in the 75 years of the Republic
emerging from the ruins of the Second World War and fascism.
The coronavirus continues to dramatically punish the country, the deaths are reaching 90 thousand.
The economic and social decline unleashed by the pandemic lasts almost a year and is capital
.
Reconstruction will be difficult but it is possible thanks to a plan called "New Generation" by the European Union for its 27 countries that, with an extraordinary financial bazooka, will distribute 750 billion euros in reconstruction plans.
Italy will be the most benefited with the 209 billion euros, of which 80 thousand do not have to be returned because they are subsidies.
In February, Italy will present to the European Union a Recovery plan for 310 billion euros, a figure obtained by adding other European funds.
A homeless person in the center of Rome.
The pandemic dragged Italy into its worst crisis since World War II.
Photo: EFE
Conte and the coalition parties raise the liberal progressive, pro-European flag.
But the EU is concerned that the League of Salvini and Giorgia Moroni's Brothers of Italy are sovereign nationalists.
There is a consistent presence of ultra-rightists in their groups in the Euro-Parliament.
Alarm:
an ultra Italy may become Europe's nightmare
.
It is the second manufacturing country behind Germany and the third industrial power in the EU after Germany and France.
On Sunday, a rumor spread that Conte decided to resign to regain the initiative with the third of the governments he has led since the populists won the general elections in March 2018. But for the new cabinet to be born, the prime minister must receive support of centrist groups, more Christian Democrats unearthed from oblivion and legislators on the loose.
Italy is a parliamentary country.
Governments are born and die in the Chambers, the Presidents of the Republic as well.
Everything is resolved in Parliament and if it is not achieved, it goes to general elections of deputies and senators.
Conte's resignation would allow him to avoid the meeting in Parliament with the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, this Wednesday and Thursday.
His judicial proposals described as "justicialistas" by the "warrant" parliamentarians threatened to once again leave Conte's government in the minority in the Senate, which would have forced him to resign.
The leader of the Democratic party, Luca Zingaretti, declared: "We are working for a new government in which Giuseppe Conte is essential, he represents our most advanced balances." A touch to convince the prime minister that the time has come to add in the new Executive of Conte 3 to forces of centrist, liberal and independent legislators who guarantee the stability of the government in Parliament in the next two years.
The gigantic mountain of 209 billion euros Italy must turn them into projects for large public works, development of the most advanced industrial areas, support for the renewal of companies and requalification of millions of jobs.
Due to the pandemic last year, 600 thousand jobs have been lost and it has been necessary to increase public debt to almost 160%.
The European Union cautioned that such programs must be credible and technically possible.
The quality of the economic projects will be the counterpart to the impressive amount of aid.
Italy hopes to receive this year an advance of 20 billion that it wants to dedicate in particular to public health to face the pandemic.
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