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Matteo Renzi ignores the call of the head of state Sergio Mattarella and heads to the final showdown with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte: to remove the ministers of Italia Viva from the government. The Rignano senator announces that on January 7 he will announce the farewell of the 4th delegation, the ministers Teresa Bellanova (Agriculture) and Elena Bonetti (Family), to the executive Conte. This is the answer to the gauntlet (“If it is a crisis, I will go to Parliament”) launched by the prime minister at the end of the year press conference. The tam tam becomes insistent in the last hours: the Renzians are ready to leave the majority. Renzi accepts Conte’s challenge and slaps the President of the Republic. On the occasion of the New Year’s Eve speech, the Colle urged the parties (mainly Italia Viva) “not to pursue partisan advantages.” In response yesterday, Renzi (recipient of the head of state’s warning) – from the Messenger pages – relaunched the thrust: «If Conte wants it, we will wait for him in Parliament. Conte said he will come to Parliament. In my opinion, he was wrong to close the government audit in this way. But if he has chosen to go and count himself in the House, we accept the challenge. In addition, he did so from the pulpit of a press conference while the Senate voted for the first time on a budget law on December 30, without the possibility of modifying it. An institutional scandal. Too bad Conte preferred to avoid the classroom to look for another live television ». The former prime minister also unleashes the leader of group Iv in the Chamber of Deputies against Mattarella and Conte: «In the event that there are refugees from Forza Italia who save the government, none of us will shout scandal, but Iv will continue his work from the opposition. If the government goes into crisis, Pd and 5Stelle argue that only the polls remain. Voting is never a threat “, Maria Elena Boschi attacks in an interview with Repubblica. Therefore, the attractiveness of the head of state seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Especially in light of the announcement (at this point it is a matter of hours) of the withdrawal of the delegation of ministers from the Executive as of January 7.
The Renzian attack, following Mattarella’s appeal, sparks criticism. «2021 begins as 2020 ended. With a quarrelsome government and no prospects. With the majority partners who speak, now only in the press, to the sound of threats and ultimatums. Then they only harm the country and ignore the warning of President Mattarella, ”wrote Mariastella Gelmini, leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber of Deputies, on Twitter. Italia Viva does not back down and focuses on the Colle. And now the battle fronts go to two: Conte and Mattarella. The Renzianos sharpen their weapons and prepare the battle in the Chamber to overthrow the Conte government. Numbers in hand, the Giallorossi executive no longer has a majority in Palazzo Madama without the 18 IV senators. The patrol of those responsible is crumbling. The Cambiamo group (3 senators) and the UDC (3 senators) have announced that they will not save the ombudsman. For now, the premier can count on the support of Senator Sandra Lonardo, wife of former Justice Minister Clemente Mastella. “If Prime Minister Conte in Parliament made an appeal to the Executives to move forward, without a doubt I would be willing to accept it, because opening a crisis in the dark at this time would be an act of great, great irresponsibility,” Lonardo tells Adnkronos , elected in Forza Italia and now in the Mixed group. The passage in most of Lady Mastella is not enough. Conte’s men are working to win back other votes in the Senate in extremis.
