The day of change has arrived for the Italian Government. At 16 pm, after a brief Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Enrico Letta will go up to the Quirinale to hand in his resignation. A decision announced yesterday, after the direction of the Democratic Party during which the secretary Matteo Renzi officially asked to lead a new Executive that has the end of the legislature as its horizon, in 2018.
The President of the Republic should start the consultations immediately, receiving party delegations as early as this afternoon. The Renzi government, which will be able to count on the same majority as the current Executive (even if the support of some defectors from the 5 Star Movement and SEL is not excluded), could be summoned to be sworn in at the Quirinale as early as next week .
The tight deadlines lead to the proliferation of rumors about the members of the new government team. According to the latest rumors, Angelino Alfano should lose his position as interior minister, but be confirmed as deputy prime minister. Party spokesman Lorenzo Guerini and the current Minister for Regional Affairs and Sport Graziano Delrio are in the running for the position of undersecretary to the Prime Minister, however he is also given the favorite to replace Alfano at the Interior.
The most incandescent armchair is undoubtedly that of the Treasury. If Letta were to refuse any reparation offer from Renzi (who could also converge on foreign countries), Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (already on the board of the ECB), Piercarlo Padoan (former OECD chief economist and new president of Istat), Fabrizio Barca (minister for territorial cohesion in the Monti government), Andrea Guerra (owner of Luxottica), Lucrezia Reichlin (deputy governor candidate at the Bank of England) and the economist Tito Boeri.
As for the other dicasteries, we are talking about Guglielmo Epifani or Marianna Madia al Lavoro, while for Justice the most accredited names are those of Michele Vietti (vice president of the Superior Council of the judiciary) and Giovanni Maria Flick (emeritus president of the Constitutional Court). Emma Bonino, Beatrice Lorenzin, Andrea Orlando and Maurizio Lupi could be confirmed respectively at Foreign Affairs, Health, Environment and Infrastructure.
