The road map is clear: Wednesday keynote speech and vote of confidence in the Senate, it will be repeated in the Chamber on Thursday. After that, it will be time to choose deputy ministers e undersecretaries – on which the parties will probably have a free hand – and the new government will finally be in full power. In these hours, Mario Draghi is filing the last details of what he intends to say to the parliamentarians. According to rumors reported by Republic, it should be a more synthetic discourse than ever: no more than 20 30-minute.
The starting point will most likely be a call for unity: a sort of premise to underline that the new Executive was born around a few objectives shared by all and that the frictions between the parties – which already emerged on Monday closure of the ski lifts – they must not be an obstacle along this path. Indeed, without unity, it will not be possible to face the two major emergencies that everyone recognizes as priorities: the fight against Covid e the response to the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic.
Draghi will then reiterate the three cultural pillars on which his mandate rests, already clearly underlined during the consultations with the parties:
- Europeanism: because there is no future for Italy except within the EU, to which it is indeed advisable to cede further shares of sovereignty;
- atlantism: the relationship with the United States must not be preserved only from a commercial or military point of view, but above all from a political point of view;
- environmentalism: the environmental emergency requires urgent actions that can be exploited to create development.
On the more strictly economic side, the first task of the Draghi government will be the completion (or rather, the rewriting) of the draft Recovery Plan inherited from the Giallorossi executive. The Prime Minister will certainly increase resources allocated to healthcare and will join the program una governance structure able to circumvent the inefficiencies of the Italian bureaucracy. The plan will have to be delivered by April to the European Commission, which will then take 2-3 months to evaluate it and possibly give the green light to the first tranche of aid (for Italy, 13% of the total 209 billion, i.e. about 27 billion ).
But Recovery access requires the government and Parliament to also launch the structural reforms indicated by Europe in the latest Recommendations to our country. On this front, Draghi will prioritize three dossiers:
- tax reform: to correct not only the personal income tax brackets, but the entire tax system, in compliance with the constitutional principle of progressivity;
- justice reform: with particular reference to the civil trial and bankruptcy procedures, to remove two of the main obstacles that discourage foreign investments in Italy;
- public administration reform: to make the state machine more efficient with that digital revolution that so far no one has managed to trigger.
Within this general framework, the government will then have to deal with social cohesion with a series of anti-crisis interventions:
- support for those who have lost their jobs;
- reform of social shock absorbers;
- strengthening of active employment policies;
- increase of training paths, even with massive investments on school.
Finally, as far as communication is concerned, Draghi's guidelines to his team seem clear: “We'll only talk when there's something to say”. It remains to be seen whether and to what extent ministers will be willing to comply with this directive.
