Government, the report cards of the crisis: who wins and who loses (VIDEO)

The political crisis it's finishing, there will be no early elections, the nightmare of Italexit agitated by the League will vanish and in the next few days Italy will have a new government based on the alliance between the Five Stars and the Democratic Party with Giuseppe Conte, blessed by both the international chancelleries and the US President Trump, as Prime Minister. Thus the Conte 2 Government was born, profoundly different from its first Government based on the alliance between Salvini's League and Di Maio's Five Stars. But as in all good battles, there are winners and losers. Who I am? We have identified 8 of them. Here are our report cards.

For chivalry, we give precedence to the WON.

SALVINI, VOTE: 2

The most defeated of all is the head of the League, Matteo Salvini: he thought he had the country in his grip and had the maximum electoral consensus but he made an improbable mistake, he ruined everything and found himself only a handful of flies . Salvini got the timing of the crisis wrong: if he wanted to do it, he had to do it after the European vote and not cold-heartedly in the middle of August, when the risks of a financial crisis due to the vacuum of power are notoriously much greater. But he was also wrong in thinking that the Head of State and all the political forces would have naively bowed to his desire for elections, requested to capitalize on the consensus and have "full powers", an expression that sounded sinister to most. Then he got all the crisis management wrong with continuous twists and turns, which revealed only his weakness: first the request for no confidence in Prime Minister Conte, then withdrawn, and finally the unworthy offers to Di Maio to retrace his steps by offering the leader of the Five Stars the Presidency of the Council in exchange for the renewal of the newly repudiated government alliance. In short: an amateur in jeopardy.

DI MAIO, SCORE: 4

If Salvini revealed all his inadequacy as a leader, Di Maio did not much better, united with the head of the League by the unsuccessful experience of the first sovereign and populist government in the country. He would say with the Latins: “Simul stabunt, simul cadent”. The ambiguity and attachment to the armchairs have characterized all of Luigi Di Maio's crisis management. First he fueled the prospect of the two ovens, telling President Mattarella that the Five Stars were willing to form a new government with the Democratic Party and then showing reluctance to leave the Quirinale and keeping the doors open to Salvini until the last minute. But no less serious was the feeling that Di Maio gave of playing a game all by himself to defend a power inevitably scratched by the first bankruptcy experience of government. His persistence in demanding not only a dicastery of weight but the defense of the vice-premier seat, despite the fact that the political framework had changed, says a lot about the real stature of the statesman from Pomigliano. Like Salvini, an amateur in jeopardy.

CALENDA, VOTE: 5

Sorry to say, but among the losers we must also include the former minister of economic development and MEP of the Democratic Party, Carlo Calenda. He has always declared himself against the alliance with the Five Stars and we must acknowledge this consistency, but he is not only in a party when he is in the majority. If you lose, you fight to overturn your party line, but you don't quit just three months after your election to the European Parliament. Politics is not a stage for prima donnas. Sorry, but Calenda didn't make a good impression.

And here are the WINNERS.

RENTI, SCORE: 9

He is the real winner of the government crisis. He was the first to indicate what was really at stake: avoiding the general elections to save the economy and, even before that, Italian democracy by barring the way for the sovereignist Salvini and, if necessary, also sleeping with the devil. making a government with the Five Stars without getting hung up on formulas and armchairs. He did it even against the initial orientation of his party and in the end he won by demonstrating flair, speed of thought, courage and determination, giving up ministerial sirens right from the start and fully regaining his role as a protagonist on the political scene.

COUNT, SCORE: 8

Another winner is Giuseppe Conte. Even if belatedly and after having endorsed all the atrocities of the Lega/Cinque Stelle government, it is the prime minister who finally knocked Salvini down in Parliament, reproaching him for all the mistakes committed in the government and in the management of the crisis. Then he changed pace, burying the flashbacks of the League, opening up to the Democratic Party and also gathering support internationally, starting with Trump.

BEPPE GRILLO, SCORE: 7,5 

Like Renzi, he had a good nose and great timing and was among the first to block the way for Salvini and the elections, directing the Five Stars towards an embrace with the Democratic Party. Then he sanctified Conte by elevating him to his rank and displacing Di Maio. However, in this he made a tactical error: by elevating Conte in rank he practically took away his impartiality and fully enrolled him in the Five Stars, which could have repercussions in the choice of the future President of the Republic. However, strategy is more important than tactics.

ZINGARETTI, SCORE: 6,5

He had started saying he was in favor of early elections also to settle internal accounts with Renzi. Then he easily changed pace: he became the biggest supporter of the government alliance with the Five Stars and eventually also of Conte's premiership, which he initially opposed. He managed to unite the party, also gaining Renzi's consent and ending the party leadership with a standing ovation in favor of him.

BERLUSCONI, VOTE: 6

For now, Forza Italia can only bear witness, no longer being at the center of the political scene, but, beating and repeating on the horizon of the centre-right, Berlusconi - thanks to Salvini's harakiri - has effectively caged the League, especially in view of the upcoming regional elections. Salvini will need like bread the alliance with Forza Italia which until recently he disdained. It is a small step forward, but Berlusconi did it in the crisis, keeping anchored to the compass of Europeanism.

Then there is the supreme arbiter, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. Out of institutional respect, no votes for the Head of State, but for his impartiality, his wisdom and his determination, the thanks of all Italians - yes - he certainly deserves it.