The Minister of Health and leader of Article 1, Roberto Hope, he just can't give up the Movement Five stars or, as the secessionist Luigi Di Maio controversially defines it, to the "party of Conte" which perhaps, however, after the earthquake opened by Beppe Grillo on the double parliamentary mandate, should be called "the party of Grillo and Conte".
HOPE REOPENS IN CONTE: "TECHNICAL APARTMENTS OTHERWISE THE LEFT LOSES"
While criticizing the error of Tale in Parliament who, denying the Senate's trust in the Draghi government, provided a fantastic assist to Lega and Forza d'Italia, who were not waiting for a better opportunity to bring down the government, Speranza, in an extensive interview published today by Corriere della Sera , warns that if the left splits from the Five Stars it will face electoral defeat and therefore opens a window to M5S. "It would not be a question - explains the leader of Article 1 - of making alliances or coalitions (Ed. with the Five Stars" but technical appearances, as the electoral law provides.
However, Speranza does not seem to be a simple technical trick but a manifestation of nostalgia for the Five Stars. In his interview there are in fact two litmus papers of the effective guidelines of Article 1. The first concerns the Draghi agenda and the second the relations with calenda e Renzi.
HOPE: "THE DRAGHI AGENDA WAS A COMPROMISE" AND CALENDA AND RENZI BETTER NOT
Despite being part of the Government as Minister of Health, Speranza belittles the Draghi agenda by arguing that "theDraghi government agenda it was a compromise between different political forces” while “we need a strongly social and radically alternative agenda to the right” which, however, has never been proposed by the Article 1 leader during his tenure in government.
But there is another point in the interview that clarifies Speranza's positions and it is the one on relations with Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi. "The fragility of the Italian political system - claims the minister referring to them - has exploded too many personalities and sometimes even narcissism and I don't want to stay on this terrain". Giuseppe Conte has also often been accused of narcissism but obviously Speranza flies over this. But there is another point the minister overlooks: if politics also has to deal with technical expedients to win the elections, why are the votes attributed to Conte decisive and those of Calenda and Renzi not? Perhaps Speranza will tell us in a future interview. Or maybe never.
