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hard momment. We all know it, but the fact that these are the first words Mario Draghi utters after the usual thanks to the President of the Republic for the trust he wanted to place in me, reaffirms the drama of this political crisis, he already remembered the day. the day before yesterday by Sergio Mattarella himself. It is 1:30 p.m. and the former president of the European Central Bank for the first time in the position of prime minister in charge of forming a government in front of the microphones installed for the press in the Quirinal. He accepted with reservation, as usual. The conversation with Mattarella lasted an hour and a quarter. Because the situation is delicate, nothing can be left to chance and everything has been examined to achieve the objective indicated by the President of the Republic: A high profile government.
Draghi arrives at Colle on time at 12, with the escort car that he has had since, in November 2019, he returned to his Roman home, an attic in Parioli, Frankfurt, after his eight years as president of the ECB. Following the interview with Mattarella, Draghi entered history for the whatever is needed with which he saved the euro in 2012, he barely speaks a few words, all weighted. Winning the pandemic, completing the vaccination campaign, offering answers to the daily problems of citizens, relaunching the country are the challenges we face.: almost an outline of the program, concentrated on the three emergencies, health, social and economic, indicated by Mattarella.
Then the method: with great respect I will address Parliament first, an expression of popular will. I trust that unity will emerge from the confrontation with the parliamentary parties and groups and from the dialogue with social forces, and with it the ability to give a responsible and positive response to the call of the President of the Republic. Therefore, Draghi did not act like Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (also a central banker), who in 1993 formed a government without the usual consultations. Draghi will do it everywhere, also embracing the social partners from whom he already received convinced credit openings yesterday. Dissolve the reserve at the end of the consultations, Draghi concluded.
Freed from the Quirinale they went in order: to Montecitorio, Palazzo Madama and Palazzo Chigi. With the Speaker of the House, Roberto Fico, fresh out of the failure of the exploratory mission that Mattarella granted him to verify if it was possible to put a Conte government back on its feet, Draghi tried to understand what to expect from the 5 Stars. , but with little help from Fico, given the strong divisions in the Movement. With the president of the Senate he explored the center-right front, where Elisabetta Casellati, coming from Forza Italia, who is not hostile to Draghi, can play a positive role in the birth of the government. But the key meeting was with the outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. The position that the latter will take will have a great influence on that of the 5 Star Movement. It was a non-circumstantial face-to-face, both for the duration, more than an hour, and for what is at stake, and surrounded by a thousand inferences, starting with that of a prestigious ministry, probably that of Foreign Relations, for the Count himself. in the Draghi Government. Hypothesis disproved by Palazzo Chigi. But that must be taken into account, in light of the words of Luigi Di Maio, the first of the former political leader of the 5 Stars, pronounced last night at the assembly of the parliamentary groups of the Movement. Di Maio in fact called for a political and not a technical government.
The game has just started and will be played in the rooms of the Chamber, theater of consultations. The office on the noble floor of Palazzo Koch, the headquarters of the Bank of Italy, will remain empty, occupied in recent months by Draghi as honorary governor, having headed the central bank from 2005 to 2011. An office where, in recent weeks, Draghi has seen the call to Colle approaching, a few hundred meters away.
February 3, 2021 (change February 4, 2021 | 00:05)
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