There was a meeting. At 8 this morning, the secretary of the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, crossed the threshold of Palazzo Chigi to speak with Prime Minister Enrico Letta. At the center of the conversation, which lasted about an hour and a half, were various topics: from the Government pact – which the Prime Minister christened “Commitment 2014” – to the draft of the Jobs act recently presented by the Democratic secretary. The crux of the debate, however, remains electoral reform, which it will arrive in the Chamber in the Chamber on 27 January.
According to sources at Palazzo Chigi, the meeting between the two leaders was "very useful and positive". The appointment was initially scheduled for yesterday, but was then postponed and seemed destined to take place after the next meeting of the Pd management, scheduled for January 16th.
The conversation was also necessary to smooth out some tensions that have emerged in the last few hours. On the one hand, the lunge of Renzi, who defined himself as a "carer of the government", who knows how to "only make trouble that we have to fix". On the other, Letta's reaction: “I make the government's agenda. It is right that Renzi put forward his proposals, that he speed things up. But I'm not here to be a notary, I'm not going to be commissioned".
Meanwhile, after the sensational turnaround on teachers' paychecks, various voices of the Democratic Party have thrown themselves against the number one of the Treasury, Fabrizio Saccomanni: "I think it is serious when such an important minister says 'I am an executor' or 'No one has instructed me' - said on Radio 24 Dario Nardella, deputy Democrat, former deputy mayor of Florence and one of Renzi's closest collaborators -. I believe that the Ministry of the Economy, as a general rule, should be led by a politician, because we have seen that the experience of the technicians has not worked well". However, Nardella later clarified that with these words he did not intend to ask for Saccomanni's resignation.
“As reiterated several times over the past few days, the Democratic Party has never asked nor does it intend to ask for reshuffles or the replacement of this or that minister – specified Lorenzo Guerini, spokesman for the Pd secretariat -. At this moment it is necessary to work well and together on the reforms that serve the country and not raise questions that do not exist".
