The slaps and insults that Beppe Grillo foisted yesterday on Pierluigi Bersani ("He's a dead man talking, he should resign, we will never give support to the Democratic Party or others") seem to quickly overturn the political scenarios that the secretary of the Democratic Party he had plotted in his first post-vote press conference. Despite Vendola's pressure, the hypothesis of a Bersani minority government which is destined to ask, time after time and on each measure, the votes of the 5 Star Movement in Parliament seems to be walking on mined ground.
But accelerating the search for new scenarios - while waiting for Giorgio Napolitano to start the consultations and give the task of forming the new government after the new Parliament takes office - was also Silvio Berlusconi, who in practice offered Bersani this possibility : elect me president of the Senate (with implicit safe-conduct from judicial inquiries) and I will take a step back, giving the green light to a Bersani-Alfano government. Not only that: the Knight intends to propose to Bersani to reconfirm Napolitano for a year or two at the Quirinale as guarantor of the electoral reforms, after which the vote would return.
Berlusconi's offer is one of those destined to give the Democratic Party a headache and even a stomach ache. After a fiery electoral campaign, making an agreement with the jaguar is not easy for Bersani and for the more radical wing of the Democratic Party. But Renzi is also in the Democratic Party and there are those who are used to looking coldly at political balances, especially after Pyrrhic victory in the last elections. If so, the Democratic Party will win – in addition to Palazzo Chigi – also the presidency of the Chamber, which would probably go to Dario Franceschini or, alternatively, to a grillino.
It is significant that today, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, Massimo D'Alema, while saying no to the highly governing Pd-Pdl, proposes giving the presidency of the Senate to the Pdl and that of the Chamber to Grillo.
BERSANI-ALFANO: PROS AND CONS – There are many arguments against a hypothesis of Bersani-Alfano government: 1) how many votes would such a government earn for Grillo's position (and opposition) income? 2) what economic policy could such a government implement and how would it behave in relation to European commitments?
But there are also robust objections to the reluctance to experiment with a Bersani-Alfano government, especially the following: 1) next time there will be no voting with the infamous Porcellum and it is quite certain that, limiting himself to saying no to everything, Grillo will continue to Refuel? 2) what reaction would the markets have in the face of an even weaker government condemned to submit to Grillo's moods?
Naturally the games are still to be done but, like it or not, the numbers say that the Knight is back on the field. And yet, for the first time in twenty years, there is an opportunity to encourage its step backwards. The game is open. We will see the next episodes.
