“It will end soon, Renzi wants Conte’s head”

Published on: 02/01/2021 3:06 PM

Betting on the government of national unity? Money down the drain. The legislature will end soon and from the Conte-Renzi duel, as in 94 ‘, an outsider will emerge who will question old and new political structures and alliances. He says it in an interview with Adnkronos, Gianfranco Rotondi, deputy leader of the Forza Italia group in the Chamber and president of the DC foundation, expressing an opinion on the fibrillations in the government and in the majority. “The government – he predicts – will fall due to political incompatibility, not in a practical matter that, apparently, seems to be the reason for the conflict. Renzi is thirsty for blood, he wants Conte’s head. Politics is blood but, as Rino Formica said, it is also something else. Conte has been sailing in the middle for two years. I think Conte has a Christian Democratic culture and has the skills to handle such a situation. In the AD grammar it was said that ‘the enemy either faces him or you like him’ but, if you face him, you must make sure you defeat him and I do not think that is the case of the government. Between Renzi and Conte, I would bet more to win the first than the second“.

Renzi’s strategy, according to Rotondi, is simple, raising the tone “because interpreting the destructive part is easier than pretending to be the constructive one. I am not talking about Renzi’s position, because even if he does not agree with his way of acting, I can understand their movements. ” THEIv’s leader “doesn’t consider Conte up to the task and Conte knew it from the start.” and he knew it so well that he would have to devise counter moves to save his skin. So I think Conte (and Renzi too) should meet on politics, not government activity. “

“The knot that conditions the legislature – insists the exponent of FI – is political. It has been said and written that Renzi left the Democratic Party to preside over the so-called Macron zone in Italy. We have seen well, especially in recent months, that in Europe there is an electoral space that is between sovereignists and the left. It is a composite phenomenon and it is not represented by a single party: in Europe, Macron was the first there, but now, especially in local and local elections, the Greens are moving forward as happened in Germany. “In Italy Renzi would like to preside over this electoral basin but perhaps he thinks that, by remaining at the helm of the government, Conte can undermine this leadership of his. Put like this and with a joke, it would seem more than a political dispute, it is a dispute over a dismissal of construction destined to build of this new political area.

“On the birth of a government of national unity – adds Rotondi – I would not bet a penny. As the government falls, we will vote, we will discover Renzi’s intentions and we will learn about the real party for which Renzi has decided to leave the Democratic Party. Renzi is waiting for Conte at the door, when Conte comes out, the legislature is closed. Conte will announce that he is on the pitch with one of his parties and Meloni and Salvini will be satisfied because the word will pass into the hands of the people ”.

“ME I do not believe in a prolonged agony of the government and the majority. I believe that the solution to the matter will emerge shortly.. I repeat: the crux is political, behind the Recovery Fund, the coordination of the Security Services or the Month there is the concrete determination of Renzi who wants to get rid of Conte, which is his competitor in the construction of the Party of Italians ”.

“Even if more than 25 years have passed – continues the deputy leader of the group Fi – I see a lot of similarities to 1994. The cameras will dissolve and someone will appear to throw the cards on the voting table. Someone who has the ambition and the project to preside over that vast political field located between sovereignty and the traditional left will go out into the field. Renzi thinks it’s him; Conte doesn’t want to be him, but circumstances will force him to go out onto the pitch. ”“ There is one last variable: if Conte and Renzi are devastated by the fight they have fought, then like in ’94 -as happened with Silvio Barlusconi- there’s room for a new face to enter the field. Who? I know but I don’t say. We will surely find out soon, because the legislature will not last long ”, concludes Rotondi.