“But what diktats… ours is a proposal, not an imposition. I don't understand what the motivation for saying no to a person like Savona is. We go to advise, to suggest and to make available”. So he said Matteo Salvini arriving at the Chamber for the round of consultations with prime minister in charge Giuseppe Conte, as if to at least partially dampen the controversy, which became very bitter today with Colle's irritation over the candidacy of Professor Paolo Savona for the Ministry of Economy. The controversy was further dampened in the evening, when, leaving the consultations, Salvini took a step back, leaving “the honor and the honor of choosing ministers to the prime minister in charge. The important thing is to leave,” Carroccio's number one told reporters.
"We suggest the name of Savona with the utmost humility", the leader of the League had already specified in the afternoon, after the armor plating - which took place yesterday evening immediately after Conte's assignment and was shared by the political leader of the 5 Star Movement Luigi Di Maio - on the the name of the economist with well-known Eurosceptic tendencies was not liked by President Sergio Mattarella, who had not hidden his irritation: "The issue on the agenda - the Quirinale announced - is not that of alleged vetoes but, on the contrary, that ofinadmissibility of diktat against the Prime Minister and of the President of the Republic in the exercise of the functions that the Constitution attributes to both".
In short, Mattarella had not liked the pressing at all, especially from Salvini, and the clash had continued remotely even on the issue - the most sensitive in these hours - of Europe. Despite the soothing signals sent yesterday by Conte during his speech in front of journalists, the League does not seem willing to give discounts. “Europe advises or rather he threatens talking about a 10 billion maneuver? – observed Salvini – I intend to do the opposite of what the EU has threatened to the Italian rulers in recent years”.
In the evening then the partial reverse, but the tension remains high. Even the 5-star leader Luigi Di Maio, leaving the consultation, reiterated that "the names of the ministers will be chosen by President Conte", while the prime minister himself then introduced himself to journalists saying that in the evening he is preparing to receive the delegations of the savers victims of the banks. “Those who have suffered scams will be compensated,” Conte said, adding that tomorrow (Friday) he will meet the governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco and in the evening he will bring a list of ministers to Mattarella.
