Either the President's government is born or Giorgio Napolitano resigns. This is the dramatic alternative facing Italy on the eve of the next few hours. Faced with reciprocal vetoes and counter-vetoes, the President of the Republic is determined, as always, to get to the heart of the problems and will make his decisions known in the next few hours. Basically an Easter Vigil with a high political and institutional intensity.
“I am not available to make governments at the end of my mandate and at the beginning of a new legislature” Napolitano repeated during the consultations. "A government of the President without the President, how can one do it? Perhaps it is better that the next tenant of these rooms at the Quirinale should start, if he succeeds, an executive of this kind ... at least he will be able to support it with the strength of his office ” or dissolve the Houses.
In other words, Napolitano in the next few hours must decide whether to call a high institutional personality to Colle (Cancellieri or Franco Gallo, Saccomanni or Grasso) to whom to entrust the task of forming a government of the President supported by Pdl, Pd and Civic choice and formed partly by political ministers and partly by technical ministers with the task of reforming the electoral law and managing the economic emergency or whether to acknowledge that such an executive would not gather the majority in Parliament and that therefore all that remains is the dramatic move of the early resignation of the Head of State.
It is difficult to make predictions even if last night the Democratic Party with Enrico Letta, during the consultations at the Quirinale, opened a window on the government of the President, deferring to the decisions of the Head of State. We will have to see if all this is enough for the Democratic Party. In short, a nice mess, against which Napolitano's temptation to force the political forces to reveal their cards to the end by choosing both the government and the new president of the Republic together is growing. It may still be that, faced with this risk, everyone will decide to take a step back and agree to give the President's government the go-ahead. But we will only know this in the next few hours of this dramatic Easter eve.
