Easter day was worth at three main political forces (Pd, Pdl, M5S) to discover the hot water and that is that the two task forces wanted by the Head of State are not decisive. It really took great acumen for him to understand what was obvious from the first moment and that is that the two task forces of the 10 essays commissioned by Giorgio Napolitano they can plow the ground and facilitate the solution of the main programmatic problems for the future government but they do not have the powers to resolve the political issues which have so far prevented the birth of the first executive of the new legislature. In reality, the coldness with which Pd, Pdl and M5S look at the work of the 10 essays hides the irritation at having once again been caught off guard by the ability of the President of the Republic who has found a way to defrost tensions and buy time in view of the decisions that will have to be taken both for the election of the Head of State and for the formation of the new government.
But what will the 10 sages have to deal with when they meet tomorrow morning at the Quirinale with Napolitano? Of electoral reform and economic emergency first of all. On the institutional side, the first item on the agenda will be the cancellation of the Porcellum and the adoption of a new electoral system, possibly with a return to the Mattarellium that puts the choice of parliamentarians back into the hands of the citizens and that resizes the abnormal majority premium for the coalition or party that wins the elections.
But together with the reform of the electoral law, the wise men of institutional extraction will also try to indicate the solutions to cut the costs of politics and to review bicameralism. On the economic level, on the other hand, the wise will deal mainly of debts of the Public Administration to businesses, financing of the redundancy fund and exodus emergencies but – in line with international and European commitments – they will also try to sketch out the outline of a possible government economic program shared by the main political forces.
At the same time, the Monti government will shorten the time to enact the decrees necessary to curb the recession, i.e. those concerning the release of the first 40 billion of public debt to businesses, the postponement of the Tares, the easing of the Stability Pact of the Municipalities and the release of the European structural funds co-financed by the Italian state for 6-8 billion euros.
