Good thing that Guido Crosetto there is. It is understood that the co-founder of Brothers of Italy does not come from political politics and who has never forgotten that he is above all an entrepreneur: even in the midst of the craziest of electoral campaigns, his interventions are clearly distinguished from his consortium mates of the center-right because they are always marked by sobriety, competence and concreteness. This does not mean that Crosetto renounces to say clearly what he thinks. There was a demonstration of this on Tuesday evening when in one of the many (or perhaps) too many electoral broadcasts Crosetto, pretending to speak only to viewers, did not miss the opportunity to send an unequivocal message to the same center, who made the presidentialism and federalism, the main flags of his electoral platform, although it does not seem that they are precisely the first problems Italians worry about every day.
Crosetto: autumn will be very hot, that's why a pact is needed
“Gentlemen – he basically said Crosetto – but are we aware that a very hot autumn awaits us in which the economic emergency will intertwine with the social one? Bills, high energy costs and rising food prices, galloping inflation, companies struggling to get by, the difficulty of matching supply and demand for work, drought and more: the are political forces aware that it is these emergencies that they must give an answer to?”. You are ready? One might say with Mario Draghi, but for now the division of seats seems to dominate the thoughts of the center-right and center-left political forces more than anything else, with very rare exceptions.
However, Crosetto is not the type to give up easily and in today's Corriere della Sera he relaunches, proposing "a pact with opponentsi for the good of the country”. “In September – explains Crosetto, who in a possible centre-right government could be called upon to act as Minister of Industry – a tsunami will hit our country with a foreseeable 10% lower real wealth. We will live in moments of appalling difficulty” with the risk of social conflicts which impose great responsibility on all political forces. This is why – argues Crosetto – there is a need for a Pact, without which we would all be the losers”. A pact with opponents.
Crosetto's pact today is unthinkable, but what if a near-tie emerges from the vote?
Crosetto he is the first to know that during the electoral campaign his appeal has no chance of being accepted. But after? After it will depend on election result. If the centre-right wins hands down, as current polls indicate that it has an advantage of 10-12 percentage points over the centre-left, there will be no Pact between right and left because the opposition will have to metabolize the defeat and will not make any discount. But what if the result was close to a draw to the point of calling a Draghi-like third party to Palazzo Chigi? So yes, we will need to dust off Crosetto's common sense proposal, who adds: "The main task of a conservative party in Italy today is to ensure that its manufacturing and production capacity is not lost and the country must be made fertile for Italian investments and foreigners” No one has a magic wand and that is why, especially in the face of an emergency and a very hot autumn, dialogue is holy. Let's hope that the center-right leaders also understand this: instead of chasing the chimeras of presidentialism and federalism, listen to Crosetto's wise words.