Such a mess Alloy she had never seen. It will be the blow of the Morisi case to the evanescent credibility of the Captain, Matteo Salvini, or will it be the very concrete fear of lose all local elections on Sunday, except perhaps in Calabria, but those who say that the perfect storm that hit the League has thrown one of the three engines that animate Italian populism together with the Brothers of Italy and the Five Stars off the track are not wrong.
But the ambitious interview with the Print of the minister and head of the Northern League delegation to the Government, Giancarlo Giorgetti. The headline that the Turin newspaper derived from it sums up very well one of the messages launched by Giorgetti: "There are no two Leagues: I want Draghi at the Quirinale and then we'll go right back to voting".
It is not worth wasting time to delve into the conspiracy of the power struggles within the League between Salvini and Giorgetti, which could change after Sunday's vote. It's not even worth asking whether the departure of the Minister of Economic Development is a self-candidacy at Palazzo Chigi or a preventive barrier to Salvini's increasingly improbable post-electoral premiership. The first or second interpretation may be true, but the point is another, even if before getting there the second message that Giorgetti launched in the interview with the Print, rejecting Enrico Michetti's candidacy in no uncertain terms to mayor of Rome in the centre-right and not hiding his own endorsement to the leader of Azione, Carlo Calenda.
Giorgetti says: “Who wins the administration in Rome? It depends on how much Calenda manages to intercept the outgoing vote from the right. If Calenda goes to the ballot with Gualtieri, she has a good chance of winning. And, net of the exuberances, it seems to me that he has the right characteristics to administer a complex city like Rome ”. Calenda collects and thanks and, after the support received from Giorgetti, which obviously infuriated the center-right but also the Democratic Party, it is perhaps easier to explain the recent skid of the centrist leader in favor of Mario Draghi at the Quirinale. And here we come to the point.
As mentioned on another occasion, Super Mario Draghi would be a President of the Republic eccellente, as he is as Prime Minister, and it is childish to tug at his jacket: he will choose what to do knowing that he can do everything with great dignity. But there is one question that cannot be avoided: Does Italy need Draghi more today at the Quirinale or at Palazzo Chigi? The answer is in Giorgetti's message to Print: for the Northern League minister Draghi at the Quirinale it is the indispensable move to then immediately go to the political elections.
Legitimate aspirations for a political force that hopes to win the political elections, but is closing the Draghi government to go to the vote as soon as possible really what our country needs? And who ensures the reforms that Draghi has promised to Europe to collect the 200 billion of the Next Generation Eu and to seize a unique and unrepeatable opportunity to push Italy on a path of high and stable economic growth not for just one year but for the longest possible time? Will Giorgetti guarantee the reforms after the vote? Or Salvini? Or Melons? Come on, we're not kidding. And it's time for the Democratic Party and Calenda to understand this too.
The general interest of the country - which means carrying out the reforms that only the Draghi government can realistically hope to implement - comes before any political game and it is on this that the depth and foresight of a political class is measured. Without ifs and buts. It is the general interest that makes the difference. So, in conclusion: dear Giorgetti, the endorsement of Calenda for the Capitol is a sensible and intelligent move, but the one for Draghi at the Quirinale is suspect to say the least. One endorsement is enough: the one for a reformist mayor in Rome.
I fully agree, Draghi must reach at least the end of the term.