The Government of the youngest President of the Council of the Republic, Renzi 1, will certainly go down in history as the Government of discontinuity. But there's a problem: changing isn't always enough to improve. Very well to reduce the ministers and very well to even the score between men and women in the ministerial team. The choice of Pier Carlo Padoan is also excellent, a super technician with a past at the Monetary Fund and the OECD but with political sensitivity, at the very delicate Ministry of the Economy. Padoan, who has not even had time to take office at the helm of Istat where he had only recently been appointed, knows public finance problems perfectly and has international credibility to negotiate the necessary course correction that is required in European economic policy.
On the other hand, other appointments leave us very perplexed: above all that of Federica Guidi at the head of an important ministry such as Economic Development. It is not enough to be the sons of an entrepreneur (not of first magnitude) to really know and seriously face the problems of the industry. We can only hope that he does not follow the path of his father Guidalberto, who began his career in Confindustria as a Prodi sympathizer and, at the first change of wind, found himself among Berlusconi fans and among the hawks of Antonio D'Amato , which can reasonably aspire to the palm of the worst president of Confindustria. Beyond the political and ministerial incompetence, it is to be hoped that Guidi, until recently considered close to Forza Italia, does not repeat the Berlusconi-Damati madness of wanting to pit small companies against large industrial groups. But compared to the high-profile candidacies that had emerged in recent days, the former president of Confindustria's youth is a thousand miles away.
Guidi's is perhaps the most disappointing and embarrassing choice but other appointments are perplexing. For example, that of Poletti at Work: compared to the novelty that Tito Boeri or Pietro Ichino could have represented, we are also here on another planet.
Even Mogherini at Foreign Affairs is a gamble and is the reason for the tense face-to-face between Renzi and Napolitano, who would have preferred the line of continuity with Bonino's confirmation at the Farnesina. Another perplexity is raised by the shift from the Environment to Justice of a politician like Andrea Orlando, smelling of justicialism.
For Education, after the disastrous experience of the Carrozza, however, the appointment of Montiana Giannini bodes well, from whom we expect a leap in the field of independent evaluation of merit: both of teachers and students.
The confirmation of Alfano (but not as vice president), of Lupi, of Lorenzin, of Orlando and of Franceschini is the result of the political compromise which must be evaluated as such, even if the last two moves leave doubts.
