Although the spread (the real one) went below 300, yesterday was not easy for Monti and his government. First of all there was the rudeness of the British, with Prime Minister Cameron who only informed our head of government after the fact, i.e. after the blitz failed, of the intervention of the Nigerian and British leatherheads to try to free the hostages ( one of them Italian) in Nigeria.
But things didn't get any better as far as that was concerned the dynamics of relations between the parties. The Riccardi case was suddenly reopened by the initiative of 46 PDL senators who collected signatures to ask for the resignation of the minister who (in an off-air broadcast picked up and relaunched by journalists) had deplored the fact that Alfano had blown up the the majority meeting last Wednesday. Let's be clear: the initiative of the zealous senators has not yet received the consent of the party's general staff, but there is enough for Monti to sound the alarm of a widening of the spread of the parties which could seriously jeopardize the action of the Government .
The reference to the parties as a whole did not please the secretary of the Pd Bersani because, he explained, "every political force has its own face". One way to overturn the responsibility of blowing up the top management on the PDL alone because "they want to remove the rules on corruption or give away frequencies". In the same interview with "La Repubblica", Bersani (whose possible candidacy for premier does not convince the entrepreneur Carlo De Benedetti) did not rule out an encore for Monti in the next legislature, but with a political majority based on the political alliance, and the Democratic Party is aiming for an understanding with the moderates. Statements that are anything but reassuring for Angelino Alfano and for his party.
There is no doubt that the serious difficulties in which the party of Berlusconi and Alfano finds itself are likely to be reflected in the stability of the Government, crossed by an internal debate that was anything but calm, in the aftermath of the crisis of the alliance with the League. But above all, the PDL is in great difficulty due to the upcoming administrative elections for which it is unable to weave convincing alliances and to find strong candidates for mayors. All while the polls speak of significant declines.
Naturally, the deterioration of the political framework does not concern only the PDL. The League is grappling with the Boni case and with the mayor of Verona Tosi who, after having suggested a step back to the president of the Lombardy regional council, insists on having civic lists alongside that of the League in his city as his support. The Pd in turn is grappling with the primary crisis highlighted by the vote in Palermo. Nor do the words of the former Margherita treasurer, the suspect Lusi, sound comforting (yesterday his bank accounts were seized) who, in an off-air broadcast of Santoro, prophesied that his story "can blow up the centre-left ”.
