Draghi achieves the almost unanimous support of the Italian parties

Silvio Berlusconi, upon his arrival at the meeting with Mario Draghi, this Tuesday in Rome.MASSIMO PERCOSSI / EFE

Mario Draghi has achieved in a week what seemed impossible and has received almost unanimous support from the Italian parties to form a government.

Only Brothers of Italy - perhaps he will abstain - and the voting of the affiliates to ratify the decision of the 5 Star Movement leaves loose ends.

Draghi should visit the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, between this Wednesday and Thursday, with a list of ministers and open a process that could conclude next Monday with the investiture vote in the chambers.

The success of Operation Draghi was certified this Tuesday, in the absence of some final pitfalls.

The former banker has managed to give each of the participants something they wanted to hear and that they could sell to their constituents.

From the environment and citizens' income to the people of the

grill

, to the school for the Democratic Party (PD), through the promise to the League not to raise taxes.

Draghi has balanced.

But the parties seemed more predisposed than ever to believe everything the former ECB chief said.

And they still do not know if they will enjoy ministries, since Draghi has kept that letter covered.

This Tuesday has also been the day of the great comebacks.

Silvio Berlusconi's in Rome was particularly popular, where he had not traveled for over a year.

In the morning he arrived with his private plane, contravening the advice of his doctors and his lawyers - he has avoided a court hearing lately due to old processes alleging health reasons - and announced that he would be present.

"The president is in top form and it is an obvious sign of Forza Italia's involvement in this agreement that he has come to see Draghi," say sources around him.

Il Cavaliere claims part of the paternity of Draghi's career in the Italian and European institutions and this Tuesday greeted his arrival with enthusiasm.

Berlusconi has captured all the lights of the day.

During the pandemic, he has been admitted for covid-19 and heart problems.

And he has appeared somewhat fatigued, with a slightly hoarse voice and at some point short of breath to finish reading his words.

“I have confirmed our support for Draghi and asked him to choose high profile figures, taking into account the requests of the parties, but choosing autonomously.

This is not the birth of a political majority of opposing parties.

It is the response to a serious emergency and will last as long as necessary to overcome this health, social and economic crisis.

A credible response to the world and Europe.

We will do our part with loyalty and a constructive spirit.

The gravity of the moment imposes on everyone to put aside electoral tactics and interests to put the salvation of the country first, ”he said.

The 5 Stars Movement has once again participated in the meeting with the comedian Beppe Grillo at the head of the delegation.

He almost didn't come across Berlusconi, the nemesis who allowed him to grow up in the squares of Italy and found an anti-establishment movement that basically attacked the political era of Il Cavaliere.

This Tuesday, when the formation is immersed in a deep division regarding the entry into the new Executive, it has reconfirmed its support for Draghi.

But the last fringe remains: the vote of the militancy on the opaque platform that the party calls Rousseau.

Never have any of these inquiries gone in the opposite direction to what its owners, the company that founded the party, the Casaleggio Associati, wanted.

The result is not expected before Thursday, which will determine the response Draghi can give to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

Vito Crimi, provisional leader of the

Grillinos

, did not give a clear yes, but gave it to understand on several occasions.

“We have found important things in Draghi's proposals.

Government action will focus on environmental transition and energy transition.

We have insisted on this idea of ​​the creation of a super ministry that coordinates all investment activity and puts the environment as a filter ”.

The League, after one of the most violent script twists in recent years, has also confirmed that it will support the investiture of Draghi and that it will enter his Government.

Salvini again showed his harmony with the future prime minister on most issues.

Even in "the European spirit."

"We will say no to austerity, no to stability pacts, 3% [deficit] ties, tears, blood and sacrifice."

His party has been, along with the PD and Berlusconi, the one that has had the least doubts in supporting the new Executive.

Salvini, the Europeanist

One of the most shocking consequences of

the Draghi effect

on Italian politics has been the transformation of Matteo Salvini's League.

Whether by calculation, strategy or opportunity, in the party that has flirted with the European extreme right and that has questioned the single currency until very recently, Salvini has softened his approach to the idea of ​​the European Union - this Tuesday he claimed that Italy will once again be the protagonist in Brussels— and on issues such as immigration: "A rapprochement with the Spanish or the German is enough," he argued.

Salvini has spent months trying to veer towards the center-right space that Forza Italia can no longer capitalize on.

In fact, there have even been talks to try to join the European People's Party.