"I'm ready to take a step back and give up Palazzo Chigi: let's choose the new premier together but it won't be Di Maio or Salvini". This is the latest proposal that, in view of tomorrow's consultations at the Quirinale by President Mattarella, the head of the Five Stars, Luigi Di Maio, made today to the leader of the center-right and of the League, Matteo Salvini. What matters, explained Di Maio, is a program contract between M5S and Lega to improve the lives of Italians which, according to Cinque Stelle, postulates basic income, the overcoming of the Fornero law on pensions, the abolition of annuities, the reduction of taxes and the other points already listed in the Movement's electoral campaign.
But Di Maio has once again ruled out the possibility of an understanding with Silvio Berlusconi, with whom Salvini has so far not wanted to break, and it is therefore unlikely that the step back by the Five Star Chief on Palazzo Chigi will be enough to pave the way for a Lega-M5S government. But the summit at Palazzo Grazioli of the center-right leaders - Berlusconi, Salvini, Meloni - was divided in view of tomorrow's consultations with President Mattarella: Salvini is ready to form the government with the Five Stars but obviously Berlusconi does not accept exclusions. We are now at the showdown: a new meeting of the centre-right is scheduled for Monday morning, shortly before the start of the consultations at Colle.
For his part, Di Maio has ruled out being able to vote for trust in the President's governments or governments of purpose or institutional and that he only wants a political government, suggesting that, if there is no agreement to resolve the political crisis, it would be better to go to the vote as soon as possible, eventually leaving the Gentiloni government at Palazzo Chigi for a few months to deal with current affairs.
Di Maio's only concession: yes to vote on a decree to avoid the increase in VAT and the provisional exercise of public accounts.
