There is no going back. At least for now. Giuseppe Conte does not find defectors to shore up his shaky majority after the divorce from Italia Viva but does not give up the vote of confidence in Parliament: on Monday in the Chamber and on Tuesday in the Senate where the numbers are at high risk. It's all good or bad but no reverse and no preventive resignations in the hands of the President of the Republic: the prime minister has chosen the path of voting and for now remains attested on this line. Even if the UDC and Clemente Mastella parade and do not guarantee relief that Conte hopes to find later.
These are the developments of the political crisis on the eve of a very uncertain showdown in Parliament, easier in Montecitorio and more complicated in Palazzo Madama, where for Conte the quorum of 161 votes to obtain the absolute majority seems like a mirage but where the Government could receive the green light even with only a simple majority of 151 votes, especially if Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva confirms the abstention.
The problem of Conte and his government, however, is not only numerical but political: after the flop of the so-called "managers", who therefore do not seem to appear despite the promises of government and sub-government positions offered by Palazzo Chigi, what depth can a government that has no vision of the future and who has never found the reform drive that Europe is asking of us and that the fight against the pandemic and the economic emergency would require? It is on this that even the Democratic Party, while excluding for now any reconciliation with Matteo Renzi, begins to question itself, just as it begins to wonder what advantage it would have if, after having pressed on Conte's defense to the bitter end, it discovered that the premier has decided to collect the popularity dividend on his own by presenting his own list in the next elections, which also makes the Five Stars turn up their noses.
The interview released today to La Repubblica by Angela Merkel's chief economic adviser, Lars Feld, will certainly make us think: "Risky crisis but Renzi is right to ask for Mes funds for health care". And he does not fail to thoroughly criticize the current Italian Government Plan for the use of the 200 and more billions of the Recovery Fund: "Your plan contains few investments in the future and too many investments in loss-making sectors". This is what Renzi claimed and what Europe never misses an opportunity to send us to say but there is none worse deaf than those who don't want or can't hear.
