The reshuffle is getting closer. Cancellieri, Zanonato and De Girolamo: these are the names of the government that could soon be replaced to create a Letta bis. The Premier does not deny it, while Dario Franceschini, minister for relations with the Parliament, explains that "any changes are the last stage of the journey, not the first". The head of regional affairs, Graziano Delrio, was more explicit: "The issue of the team will be addressed if there is a new agenda".
And there will be a new agenda, because Matteo Renzi wants it that way. The secretary of the Democratic Party intends to sign a pact with Letta to lock down the Executive until 2015, but - at the same time - asks that the team be renewed. On the other hand, after the triumph of the mayor of Florence in the primaries, today the new leading soul of the Democratic Party has no representative in the Council of Ministers.
Renzi would also like to replace the owner of Labour, Enrico Giovannini, guilty of having raised doubts about the financial coverage of the Jobs act. On this name, however, Letta does not seem willing to give up. A similar argument applies to the number one of the Treasury: "On Europe, markets and financial powers, Saccomanni is a guarantee", argues the head of government, who at most could try to remedy the political awkwardness of Via XX Settembre by replacing the former deputy minister Stefano Fassina with Renzi's economic adviser, Yoram Gutgeld. Furthermore, in recent days there had been talk of a possible Saccomanni-Monti turnover, but the Professor said he was "unavailable", defending the minister in office from "vulgar attacks by some".
As for the other names in the balance, the owner of Agriculture Nunzia De Girolamo, overwhelmed by the controversy due to her alleged pressure in relation to a contract from the Benevento ASL, rejected the hypothesis of resigning, guaranteeing that she will clarify the content in the Chamber of the unorthodox phone call disclosed a few days ago. The prosecutor explained that the minister is not under investigation, but the story has embarrassed the government. Furthermore, there is an arithmetical problem: for the Democratic Party, five ministers of the New Center-Right in the CDM are too many.
The Keeper of Seals Annamaria Cancellieri is also in the air, in Renzi's sights after the Ligresti case, while Flavio Zanonato, Minister of Economic Development, who seems to have returned to the good graces of the Prime Minister, could get away with it. Perhaps the owner of Education, Latvian Maria Chiara Carrozza, after the gaffe on the teachers' payroll. Finally, the only ones who are certain of keeping the chair are Alfano, Lupi, Franceschini, Quagliariello, Moavero and Orlando.
