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The essential premise is that the Covid emergency has created a molasses within which all parties struggle to move according to the usual rules of engagement. The epilogue, after two months with the Democratic Party threatening Giuseppe Conte with fire and flames, could be that of a Nicola Zingaretti who ends up like the dog that barks at the moon.
In fact, since mid-September, the week before the referendum confirming the cut in parliamentarians, the dem have decided to change their pace, especially on the communication front. Not that the misunderstandings with the prime minister are not really there, quite the contrary. But for about two months now Zingaretti has chosen to convey an intolerance that previously tended to remain closed at Palazzo Chigi and the confidential meetings between the self-proclaimed “people’s lawyer” and the ministers of the Democratic Party (from the head of the delegation dem Dario Franceschini to Francesco Boccia).
Thus, for some time, in the reconstructions of press agencies and newspapers, the anger of the dem secretary has rebounded, demanding a “change of pace” from Conte. A prime minister who must stop “being a notary”, to be “a rubber wall” and postpone all the files on the agenda, be it the Month, the Recovery Fund or the institutional reform chapter. This last issue is not very exciting for Italians but that after the green light of the Democratic Party to cut the parliamentarians – M5 flag battle – still has its own strategic importance. The narration that comes from Largo del Nazareno, therefore, speaks of a celebration in suffering and discontent. In the many turns that have been triggered in recent weeks, the term “ultimatum” has never been used, but often the meaning of the reasoning has been exactly this: Conte changes pace or skips the bank. Last Saturday, to say, although throwing it there as if it were a coincidence, the undersecretary of Andrea Orlando said that first we must draft “a legislative pact to rebuild” and then we will see “if there is a need for more energy” for the government. . Which, translated from politichese, means that if there is no agreement on the various files that are still on the table, then the reorganization is a concrete hypothesis. This scenario can only give Conte hives, since, as is well known, when a government crisis opens, you know where it begins but not where it ends. And the prime minister is aware that he too is in the crosshairs and is aware that Mario Draghi’s shadow has spread over Palazzo Chigi for months.
In short, the repeated altolà of Pd a Conte is in serious danger of being a dead letter. It is true that with the political-parliamentary impasse of the Covid, the only weapon of pressure that Zingaretti has is that of threat, but after two months the secretary of dem gives the feeling of having fallen into a dead end. Although the big names in the Democratic Party raise the bar and say – especially with the microphones turned off – that they cannot take more than the premier, the truth is that they will hardly reach the extreme consequences of opening a government crisis in the dark. Especially until the health emergency passes. Conte knows it well, that – not in vain – he continues to skate with great familiarity among the many diktats that come to him from Pd. The premier slips and dribbles without really exposing himself to any record. A real rubber wall, with all due respect to Zingaretti. Who, by happening like this, runs the risk of entering the same maelstrom that devastated Matteo Salvini in 2019, when he spent months and months issuing ultimatums to Conte and then ending up on the corner, forced in August to open a crisis in the darkness that already the next day it got out of control. A step from which the leader of the League continues to struggle to recover. Suffice it to say that yesterday, finally received by Sergio Mattarella to discuss Security, he managed to annoy Colle a lot for having “made public a meeting that for the Quirinale should remain confidential.”
