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The verification continues: the only certainty that arises, after the premier’s evening meeting with the Italian delegation alive, is that to understand if the government stumbles or survives, we will have to wait for the new year.
The face-to-face was brief, only twenty minutes, due to Conte’s usual delay. Long enough to verify the distances and make sure (on the part of the prime minister) that the crisis is not, yet, officially open. And for some scathing exchanges: “We are not the anomaly: it is having the same prime minister for two governments of the opposite color,” accused Teresa Bellanova. Total shock tones. “Tomorrow we will participate in the Council of Ministers – said the minister when he left – and we will continue working in Parliament on the measures.” The government cannot sink with the budget session open: this, for the moment, is the only good news for Conte: “We are waiting for the prime minister to reflect on our proposals and make us understand if the conditions are adequate to move forward.” Conte would have commented that it is a “constructive” contribution, a euphemism for not recognizing that Renzi’s text would overturn all his plans, Renzi makes it clear that everything is pending.
The antipathy between the two is now palpable, and is clear from the revealing gestures: first Renzi who blows up Tuesday’s appointment, then Giuseppe Conte who blows up Thursday morning’s (because he has to go to Haftar in Libya, complete with Di But yo).
One makes him find his version of the Recovery Plan printed in Repubblica (with attached eulogy and text from Mario Draghi, a name that with Conte works like garlic with vampires), the other responds with the Mazara fishermen of him. (and Haftar) returned home after just 108 days of illegal detention in Libya.
So when the two finally meet for the night, the vibe is far from laid-back. Indeed, in the afternoon Renzi made the drums of war beat, with a bellicose speech by Minister Teresa Bellanova: «Our resignation? They will arrive soon if answers to our questions continue to be lacking. And those who think that the threats of crisis are “a bluff from Renzi, think badly.” Bellanova is also in charge of responding to the threats of dissolution of the Chambers: “It cannot become blackmail: the majority will stand up if they have the numbers to do things, not to tell them.” Until the final push: “The health emergency cannot be used to keep a government standing, if the government cannot decide.”
In short, when the two meet face to face at night, the premier has already understood that even this time he will not be able to close the verification that he had opened for believing that it was a matter already filed. And that his chair will continue to dance until next year, when – with the budget law on file and, hopefully, the acute phase of the pandemic on file – Renzi will be able to assess whether or not the conditions are in place to open a real crisis, and to blow up. the first Minister. Because this, in the medium term, is its objective. Now he would not find political reasons to do so, but in a few weeks the situation could change, and even a lot. In Parliament and also on the Hill.
Renzi’s letter to Conte about the Recovery Fund begins mercilessly: “That 200 billion is the last chance we have. As Mario Draghi pointedly points out, the problem is worse than it appears and the authorities must act urgently. The situation is serious, President. We must abandon the rhetoric of “everything is fine”, urges the former prime minister: “We have the highest death toll in Europe, let’s try not to be the worst even in terms of recovery.” The plan sent by the government to use those funds does not work, says the former prime minister: “What is the point of spending 88 billion of the 127 billion in loans just to finance projects that already existed?” And then there is the Month, which Renzi orders to use immediately and which the Pd, cornered, also invokes. And the poor Count awaits the new year with growing anxiety.
