By Tuesday, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, demands the name of the candidate for prime minister of the parties (Cinque Stelle and Pd) who they are trying to set up a new government but for now there is no agreement.
Yesterday the secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, had tried to mess things up by telling Luigi Di Maio that his party would accept a candidate from the Five Stars for Palazzo Chigi as long as it was neither Giuseppe Conte nor Di Maio himself in order to highlight the discontinuity with respect to the previous government. But in a telephone conversation that took place on Sunday between Zingaretti and Di Maio, the Five Stars repeated that for them there is only one candidate, who is and remains Giuseppe Conti, also appreciated by the Quirinale and the European chancelleries. In the same hours, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, indicated by the Democratic Party as a possible prime minister, officially withdrew from the race to Palazzo Chigi.
The fact that the Democratic Party spent the whole day on Sunday studying the programmatic platform for the next government means that the Democratic Party, despite the dissent on the premier, he will try to the end to find an agreement with the Five Stars, especially since Matteo Renzi, while demonstrating loyalty to Zingaretti, has made it known that he would not hang himself to block Conte's path because it is much more important to block Matteo Salvini's path by avoiding recourse to early elections which could hand over the keys to Italy to the Lega and to the sovereigns. And former premier Romano Prodi said he was on the same wavelength as Renzi.
There are those who say that, if he gave his go-ahead to Conte, the Democratic Party could receive compensation in key dicasteries with Gentiloni abroad or Minniti inside and Cottarelli to the Economy and, last but not least, Gualtieri as the new European commissioner. But there are also those who say that the Democratic Party could fall back on external support for a single-colored Five Star, preventing the use of lessons but thus keeping hands free. The situation therefore remains fluid and the next few hours will be decisive, but it is not without significance that from the G7 in Biarritz, Prime Minister Conte has filtered the rumor that he is ready to cancel the two Security decrees of Salvini if the Democratic Party is convinced to confirm it at Palazzo Chigi.
