First Friday of passion for the Renzi government. The Council of Ministers scheduled for 10 am will have to address two very delicate issues: the appointment of deputy ministers and undersecretaries (45 seats in all) and the third edition of the much-troubled Local Authorities decree, better known as Salva Roma, because it contains, among the other, urgent rules to avoid the default of the Capitol.
Precisely on this point a new controversy within the Democratic Party took place, which saw Matteo Renzi and Ignazio Marino oppose each other. After the withdrawal of the second version of Salva Roma – arrived due to the obstructionism of the Lega and M5S -, yesterday the mayor of the capital had threatened to "block the city" if by Sunday the Executive had not found a solution to the city's financial woes, stating that "the Romans should pursue politics with pitchforks", because by March "there won't be the money for the 25 employees of the Municipality, for the diesel for the buses, to keep the nursery schools open or to collect the waste and not even to organize the sanctification of the two Popes".
The Premier's response was not long in coming. “We too must get used to having a different language. The concerns expressed by Mayor Marino are understandable, the tones he used are not ”, Renzi said yesterday during the leadership of the Democratic Party, after announcing the arrival of the new decree. In the evening the matter was resolved: the mayor said he was "very satisfied" with the words exchanged with the Prime Minister and with the work "carried out with great seriousness which will be completed in these hours".
Marino said he also spoke with Graziano Delrio, undersecretary to the Prime Minister, and with other ministers. "I think we are working in the direction everyone hopes for - he added - or rather that Rome has the resources to play its role as the capital of Italy". Yesterday the Campidoglio technicians went once again to Palazzo Chigi to complete the revision of the text that Renzi will bring to the CDM today: "I hope that there are those contents that can allow the city budget to be written as soon as possible - he concluded Marino -, because I want Rome to go back to being a normal city, where budgets are not written a year late, but in advance". In short, the incoming decree "must not be called Salva Roma, but Honor Rome".
