First the Quirinal and then the reforms? “It doesn't exist, and in any case my name now for Colle remains only Napolitano. Berlusconi respects the agreements: first we approve the Italicum, then we can talk about the Quirinale”. With these words, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi replies to the message launched yesterday by the Cavaliere, who from the columns of Il Corriere della Sera he had asked to reach an agreement on the name of the new President of the Republic before continuing with the reforms of the pact of the Nazarene, i.e. the electoral law and amendments to the Constitution. Furthermore, the leader of Forza Italia had suggested the candidacy of Giuliano Amato for Colle.
“I'm not opening a discussion”, Renzi said in an interview with La Repubblica: “The Italicum is in the classroom in December” and Berlusconi “has pledged to us to say yes to the package with the constitutional reform by January. I'm sticking to that deal."
As for the names for the Quirinale, “they are made to support them or to burn them – continues the Premier -. It's always been the same story since 1955. The race is more complicated than the Palio di Siena. And the horses didn't even enter the field. It is good that the President of the Republic is elected with the widest possible majority. And I say 'possible'.
