The alliance between the Lega and the Pdl will go ahead with the aim of bringing the government to the end of the Legislature, so as to be able to make reforms, including that of the taxman. These, in extreme synthesis, are the conclusions of the Arcore summit between Berlusconi and Bossi. An objective that, at the moment, remains above all a wish, given that the future premiership, the structure of the government (including the deputy prime minister and the new minister of justice) and the timing and methods of the tax reform will be discussed in the next few days, perhaps in referendums that have already been held.
It was the turn of the secretary (for now only indicated) of the PDL, Angelino Alfano, to express a positive judgment on the common will to arrive with this majority until 2013. Berlusconi also declared himself satisfied. The League is more cautious, whose managers immediately met to take stock of the situation in the headquarters in via Bellerio. Bossi still insisted on the transfer of ministries to the North. But the availability of the PDL would not have gone beyond the transfer of some offices. Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, among others, also attended the summit.
And it is certainly significant that Alfano, after the meeting, reaffirmed the objective of balancing the public finances, as Europe asks us, by 2014. In the background thus remains the essential maneuver of 40 billion, which however, according to some rumors, it could take place in two stages: it starts immediately and it starts in the autumn. It is also clear that the possibility of achieving the objectives of holding the government and the majority will also depend on the results of the referendums on Sunday and Monday, despite the majority and the opposition trying to limit their political scope: the former to make it easier to reach the quorum, the latter to in any case protect the government from any result.
Yesterday, meanwhile, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano explained that he will vote on the four questions. “I am a voter – he said – who always does his duty”. Today, at the latest tomorrow, the Constitutional Court will rule on the government's appeal against the decision of the Cassation to admit the referendum on nuclear power. The newly elected president of the Consulta, Alfonso Quaranta, has already affirmed, in a personal capacity, that he does not believe that the Court can correct decisions already taken by those in charge.
Yesterday the leadership of the Democratic Party also met and unanimously approved Bersani's report, in which the government is asked to resign at the next parliamentary check at the end of the month. The goal is to go to early elections as soon as possible. But a transitional government to change the electoral law is not excluded. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party will continue to work to extend the search for a credible alternative proposal to the center-right government to the third pole as well. Worth noting is a piqued reply from Vendola to Bersani who had in practice reserved a prominent role for the Democratic Party in the future alliance. Finally the clarification: just a misunderstanding.
