Paolo Gentiloni is running out of time and the list of ministers of the new government is almost ready. The prime minister in charge expects to present it this afternoon, Monday, at the Quirinale.
After received the assignment, Sunday morning at 12,30, Gentiloni began consultations with former ministers and members of the majority, consultations that will continue in the afternoon and will end with the Democratic Party. At the moment the total ministers foresee Angelino Alfano (Ncd) to foreign countries, Marco Minniti (Pd, currently undersecretary of the delegated authority for the secret services) inside, Pier Carlo Padoan to the Economy. He could stay at Healthcare Beatrice Lorenzin while the reconfirmation of Marianna Madia to the Public Administration is uncertain. For Maria Elena Boschi fate is uncertain: release date after the defeat of the constitutional reform, instead, a new assignment could emerge at Palazzo Chigi or at Equal Opportunities: Relations with Parliament could instead come Anna Finocchiaro (current Pd group leader in the Senate) o Roberto Giachetti. Eliminated the Ministry for Reforms.
An assignment for Piero Fassino is not excluded while they would be confirmed Carlo Calenda to economic development, Maurizio Martina (Agriculture, Renzi wanted to bring him to the Democratic Party but he will probably remain in his place), the undersecretary Claudio DeVincenti (who from undersecretary at Palazzo Chigi could move internally), Dario Franceschini (Culture), Delrium to Infrastructures. In the toto-names they also find space Teresa Bellanova at Work in place of Poletti.
In the game of checks and balances that Gentiloni must take into account, there is also the puzzle of the role to be assigned to Denis Verdini's wing: the eligible ministers of the area could be Marcellus Pera to Education or Urbani but the pressure from Verdi's supporters would even ask for two ministries even if at the moment the knot remains to be resolved.
Thus the Gentiloni government was born in record time. “During the consultations with the President of the Republic – he himself said on Sunday – the unavailability of the opposition to a broad coalition government emerged. Therefore, not by choice but out of a sense of responsibility, we will move in the wake of the outgoing majority to guarantee the country a response to the most urgent issues". The government could widen the majority in the Senate with Gal's involvement.
So we have to start from here. And the most urgent issues for the government that President Mattarella wanted in full power are undoubtedly the new electoral law and the management of the earthquake emergency internally, in addition to the MPS affair for which the intervention of the Treasury is possible. On the international level, however, Egypt and Libya are the two hottest dossiers.
The swearing-in of the Gentiloni government is scheduled for Tuesday morning, the trust between Tuesday afternoon in the Chamber and Wednesday morning in the Senate. The first engagement for Paolo Gentiloni will be the European Council on Thursday where he arrives with a vast amount of knowledge behind him.