by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma on Libero, 01/12/2018
There is a problem that no one wants to face. That problem is called Sergio Mattarella. Obviously nothing personal towards the President of the Republic, but what is happening could be dangerous for our democracy.
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President, you make us feel Italian? You can make your voice heard against the real scoundrels who every day in Brussels believe they have the right to be able to insult us in a bad way?
It's really becoming a problem to listen to in the morning, afternoon and evening from Tiggi' the discordant word of the European Commissioner Moscovici: “Like the Hungarians – he went so far as to say in a speech at a conference at the OECD headquarters in Paris – the Italians too have opted for a decidedly Eurosceptic and xenophobic government which, on migration and budget issues, is trying to get rid of European obligations”.
But how dare you? It must be the government that defends itself from this nonsense or the head of state will finally feel the need to do so? Read More
Of Marcello Veneziani
Penelope's web. It is woven during the day, it unravels in the evening. Or if you prefer, another state abortion is announced. After three months, Cottarelli's undertaking appears difficult, who also seemed to have left with all the right blessings, except for one negligible detail, the sovereign people. That annoying little charm there, called Italy. And yet he is still at sea, and you run with the headlights off in the night along a Roman road full of potholes and ambushes. The Weaver, Mattarella, he lost the clue, he made glaring mistakes, perhaps ill-advised, he managed to blow the pan first, then the embers and now he risks being left with the match in hand while the spread grows with panic. He no longer knows which way to turn, the abyss advances, specters of elections are stirring in the sun.
Whatever happens we know that we have now achieved the point of no return. An unbridgeable abyss has been dug between the Single Bloc of Power and the whole of Italy. The Single Block includes he Pd, the Great Press, Big Finance, the Caste, the Palaces, starting from the Quirinale… Then there's everything else. Which is not just the Square, the Grillino and Northern League people, the militants, but also the many refractory ones, the independents, the bilateral disgusted, the many who live, they think, they work outside the Single Block.
A was being born for the first time absolute minority government, enactment of the Single Block, in spite of the vote and Italy. Other times the technical governments of the Palace had at least one fig leaf in Parliament. This time there isn't even that, even the Democratic Party, which was the sole shareholder of reference, understood that it was better to withdraw, also because Cottarelli only announces cuts, tears and blood. At the beginning Mattarella had also discarded the hypothesis of a centre-right government that had a relative majority in parliament. And instead he then launched an oligarchic government, the PD-Potentates coalition. Read More
Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Source: Economic Scenarios
Even at the last moment, M5S and Lega have reached an agreement for the formation of a political government which determines an essential turning point: this is the first real victory of the sovereignist forces. First of all, towards Europe: in a Union that, after all, it had managed to ensure its balance even in the presence of anti-European forces, a "sovereignist" Italy is now arriving, led by an alliance between the two main “national-popular” forces. Elsewhere, we had had defeats: despite Le Pen's good electoral result, Macron's France prevailed, as well as in Germany, despite the nationalist exploit, the system has regrouped. Ecco, the Italian novelty: the “system” was unable to regroup, to absorb and neutralize the oppositions that crossed it. Right, everyone tried in every way: Berlusconi thinking of a center-right government that would find the support of the "responsible" in parliament, the Democratic Party hoping for the President's government, Mattarella with his hypothesis of a "neutral government". But in the end Lega and M5S won: they will govern, Together, after Berlusconi's step aside. As it was in the nature of things from the beginning. Read More
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Of Alessandra Caparello
ROMA (WSI) – Italy is in a stalemate situation and after the second round of consultations a response is expected from the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella who will have to decide what to do most likely tomorrow.
According to what Corriere della Sera writes today, President Sergio Mattarella will try to entrust an exploratory mandate to one of the two high state offices and the most accredited one would appear to be the President of the Senate Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.
“If it goes like this, she will have to have a studio set up quickly Giustiniani Palaceand prepare a calendar of meetings in an attempt to bring the positions closer together and untangle the knots of an agreement that until last week seemed almost done".
Another option on the table is to give a pre-appointment to one of the two leaders who emerged victorious from the recent elections and the favorite name is that of Matteo Salvini who yesterday engaged in the electoral campaign of Molise and Friuli-Venezia Giulia stated: Read More
Of Marcello Veneziani
Ah, Sandro Pertini, the president of the republic most loved by Italians. The people's president, of children, the cartoon with the pipe, the partisan president who abandons the protocol. The Impertinent. The Pure. Forty years after his election to the Quirinale, in a celebratory deluge, A hagiographic film about him will be released tomorrow at the cinema. We would like to integrate the holy card by telling the story of the other Pertini.
Upon Stalin's death in 1953, comrade Pertini, former pro-Soviet director of Avanti! and at the time the leader of the socialist group celebrated the dictator in Parliament. Here's what he said in Avanti!: «Comrade Stalin ended his day well, even if too early for us and for the fate of the world. His last word was peace. (…) One is amazed by the size of this figure… Men of every creed, friends and adversaries, must today recognize the immense stature of Joseph Stalin. He is a giant of history and his memory will never fade.". That praise, never retracted by Pertini, not even after all Stalin's crimes became known, it does not honor a fighter for freedom and the rights of peoples. Read More
As he had predicted Matthew Castagna, in yesterday's interview, President Mattarella is taking his time, waiting for the center-right to look for allies, between individual deputies and senators, to have a majority in Parliament. Meanwhile, there is Gentiloni who continues the ordinary administration…(n.d.r.)
To find the majority you go by exclusion «Now he won't lift a finger». There is already a prime minister…
Of Massimiliano Scafi
Europe calls for it: "We have faith in the president". The centre-right, from Salvini to Tajani, encourages him: «We count on his wisdom and his ability».
Di Maio also flatters him: «The head of state will act with authority». Everyone looks at him, everyone is looking for it, everyone is waiting for his nod, a rabbit with a top hat, and what he does? Nothing, because nothing is exactly the best thing to do right now. «At this stage he won't lift a finger», they say from the Hill, because this is how the parties will move. Mattarella has no "prejudicial closures", it is neutral and wants to respect the citizens' indications, he will have his say at the right time.
He will say it in April, when the groups that will go up to the Quirinale will have to present themselves with a concrete proposal, made of programs and numbers. There, after the post-election decantation, we will see if it will be possible to extract a government from two non-majorities to give to the country. Being too active right away can only make the situation worse. Read More