Today is Giorgia's day Melons, the first woman to become Prime Minister in Italy. If there will be no twists (always on the agenda with the treacherous ally Silvio Berlusconi who seems animated only by a dull grudge and a destructive intent towards the prime minister in pectore), Meloni will lead the delegation of the united right (FdI, Lega, Forza Italia and Us Moderates) to the Quirinale this morning who will meet the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and then he will speak on behalf of all the sides that are candidates to lead the country. The Head of State should reconvene the leader of the Brothers of Italy in the afternoon to formally give her the task of forming the new government that will present itself in the Chambers next Tuesday. It is not excluded that the premier in pectore, to avoid interference and new incidents along the way, will already present himself in the Colle in the afternoon with the list of ministers, even if – following Berlusconi's indecorous pro-Putin show – the boxes are not they are still completely complete and some last-minute surprises are in the probable order of things. Before the presentation of the new government in Parliament, Meloni will also meet the French President, Emmanuel, for the first time Macron, who will be in Rome on Sunday and Monday to visit Mattarella: it will be a first test of the orientation of the new premier towards Europe and towards our historical allies.
GOVERNMENT, TODAY THE APPOINTMENT OF MATTARELLA AND THE LAST DOUBTS ABOUT THE TEAM
This afternoon Giorgia Meloni will receive from the Head of State the task of forming the new government and everything suggests that the prime minister candidate wants to burn time and immediately present her team. It is said that Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini are appointed deputy prime minister. However, the key seats should remain unchanged and receive the go-ahead from the Quirinale without problems, even if the novelty of the last few hours would be Guido's candidacy Crosetto, Meloni's much-listened adviser and originally intended for economic development, at the helm of a ministry as important as Defense. For the rest Tajani, after the umpteenth Atlanticist oath (which however does not erase the American aversion to his party leader Berlusconi), will go to Foreign Affairs, Piantedosi (welcome to Salvini) to the Interior, Nordio to Justice (despite Berlusconi's forcing for Casellati) and Giorgetti for Economics. It remains to be seen who will go to Economic Development. Salvini will have the Infrastructures and among the new entries there is the group leader in the Chamber of Brothers of Italy who is also Meloni's brother-in-law, Francesco Lollobrigida, in Agriculture or Tourism.
PD, M5S and ACTION-Iv FROM MATTARELLA: CLEAR BUT DIFFERENTIATED OPPOSITION
Enrico Letta for the Pd, Giuseppe Conte for i Five stars and Carlo Calenda for Action-Italia Viva they led their respective delegations in consultations with Mattarella yesterday afternoon. Everyone promises clear and no-discount opposition to the nascent Meloni government but there are two novelties that emerged from the meetings at Colle: 1) despite Letta's appeals, the oppositions will not form a common front but everyone will go their own way so that both Conte and, a fortiori , Calenda (disgruntled for the Pd-M5S division of the parliamentary vice-presidencies) argued that there are no political conditions for a common front of the oppositions; 2) the second novelty is the different modulation of Calenda's opposition compared to that of Pd and Cinque Stelle. The opposition of Action-Italia Viva to the Meloni government, as Matteo Renzi had already anticipated, will be clear and "without discounts" but, as Calenda was keen to underline, "it will be a non-prejudicial opposition" if the pro-European position is respected and Atlanticist of Italy.