THE EUROPEANS CALL FOR THE COUP – to save Democracy, obvious

Of Maurizio Blondet
From what I understand, Mattarella doesn't want the ministers that the government alliance proposes to him. They say he keeps calling Draghi to get it, let's say, instructions or opinions: “Conti is fine?”. Draghi: For goodness sake, and who knows him. It’s incompetent. He's a technician (the media repeats: incompetent, too technical, he falsified his CV)

NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH.

Mattarella: “They propose Paolo Savona to me, accept it? Draghi: “From bad to worse, that is too competent. He is also one of the system, so we cannot attack him like a barbaric invader. Former general director of Confindustria and Minister of Industry in the Ciampi government, long years alongside Guido Carli, who as Treasury Minister signed the Treaty of Maastricht for Italy. Experienced. He knows too much. It would be able to pilot the agreed exit from the euro. He knows how to do it. It would put Merkel and Macron in difficulty in the negotiations. No no, really not".

TOO competent.

I media strombazzano: Paolo Savona is anti-euro, it's not good. We need a minister who is not critical of the euro, otherwise Europe feels offended. Others explain: Paolo Savona is inside the System, therefore in contradiction with populism. Rejected.
Mattarella vetoes.
President Mattarella takes his time. He continues to receive messages from so-called Europe: “Italy respects its commitments”; “President, do not allow the barbarians to destroy the splendid work we have done in Brussels".
One hundred and fifty German economists sign a fiery document in which they demand that Italy leaves the euro. Which demonstrates the state of mental confusion in which we have plunged them: prima, when the option of exiting the euro appeared in the Lega-M5S draft, everyone screaming that it's a scandal! And they force you to cancel that option. Then the same option appears with the signature of 150 German economists, and that's fine.
And what does Mattarella do? Wait. He waits for Salvini and Di Maio to propose the right ministers to him. Right according to pro-Europeans and the media. It is clear that he would be happy if Salvini and Di Maio proposed to him: as chairman of the board, we absolutely want Gentiloni. As Minister of Economy, we choose on our own initiative, Padoan. To Foreign Affairs, Alfano. Faithful to Education… Read More

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A remote-controlled Premier?

Of Marco Cedolin
A remote-controlled Premier?
Source: The corrosive

The new Di Maio-Salvini government has not yet been presented at the Quirinale and the clamor of the entire national and international piggery is already rising to the sky, indignant and worried about the bad turn that Italy would be taking towards her.
Sale lo spread, the stock markets go down, the leaders of the large EU countries are tearing their clothes, the entire mainstream press predicts unspeakable misfortunes, the Barnum circus of barnyard comedians spits venom, the parasites of non-profit organizations and cooperatives mutter, Both the center-right and the center-left now seem on the verge of a nervous breakdown....
Everyone has to say about everything, from the importance of the role of the future prime minister to the analysis of every single point of the sixty pages of the contract presented in recent days to the base of Lega and M5S voters. Even the controversial hypothesised blockade of the Turin-Lyon TAV manages to displease the rod and cement mafia greatly, fearful of seeing a cake that they already savored as much as NO TAV slip away before their eyes, not willing to "trade" the elimination of the work for the possibility of a crackdown on the business of wild immigration which evidently interests them at least as much as high speed.
In short, everyone is dissatisfied, everyone outraged and everyone worried, which unequivocally indicates that we are on the right path and it is desirable that we continue like this.
If Di Maio had built a government with the PD, by giving life to yet another petalous center-left executive, surely no one would have had anything to say. Just as no one would have had anything to say if the centre-right led by the impatient Berlusconi had created a government with the 5S.
Instead the Di Maio-Salvini combination is out, as well as by the will of the voters, even from the preconceived patterns of globalization and in a Western democracy this is unacceptable.

The entire mainstream press is currently working hard to mock and discredit the figure of Giuseppe Conte, the Prime Minister whom Di Maio and Salvini would have chosen as guide for the new M5S-Lega executive which every day is infuriating both the markets and the merchants of the future. The criticism that appears to be the most popular among all is that it is a remote-controlled prime minister, at the head of an executive that he did not choose, in simple words a “wooden head” placed there in plain sight to slavishly carry out someone else's orders and nothing more....
Not knowing MR personally. Giuseppe Conte and having never seen him at work it is honestly difficult for me to say whether or not he is a "wooden head", while I would like to say a few words about his predecessors and the orders mentioned above.
The Prime Ministers who have succeeded one another in recent years in Italy have been figures of the caliber of D'Alema, Berlusconi, Study Program, Monti, Read, Renzi and Gentiloni, It doesn't matter if they are wooden heads or something else, but all slavishly committed to carrying out every directive given by Brussels with meticulous care, without uttering a word that goes beyond yes sir and without caring in the slightest what the moods of their reference parties and much less their voters were, when they had them.
Mr. Giuseppe Conte was chosen to be the guarantor of a “government contract” and certainly if he becomes prime minister he will have to move among them 60 pages that have been discussed so much in recent days. Unlike its predecessors however, Brussels did not write the program it will have to guarantee, but the two parties that won the elections wrote it, attempting to create a synthesis between their respective programs and represents the will of the majority of Italian citizens who went to the polls, not that of Brussels, of markets and big finance.
Remote controlled or not, I think the salient point is the figure of the person or people holding the remote control
And in light of the facts, judge for yourself whether there are differences compared to the past.

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Lega-M5S government, Here is the contract and list of ministers

SalviniReport Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
ROMA (WSI) – More than a draft agreement, for some it is seen as a gauntlet to the European Union capable of sending the financial markets into a tailspin. Let's talk about the contract that Lega e Five Star Movement have developed and which they will soon bring to the attention of the Head of State, thus giving the green light to the new government.
Compared to the version leaked byHuffington Post in the new contract, thorny references disappear, such as the creation of an exit mechanism from the euro and the request to Mario Draghi of the ECB to cancel i 250 billions of debt for Italy.
However, some key points remain that could damage relations with Brussels. Not to mention that the coverage to be found for all these measures will be considerable and the budget constraints do not allow much room for manoeuvre.
Some points of the programmatic design still require some reflection, like them flat tax rates, the proposal to establish a regional Cie, the reform of the prescription, a law on mosques, up to the commitment to suspend executive works and re-discuss the Tav project in its entirety. Read More

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Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic

Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
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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Help, the municipalities have run out of money (and this also explains the vote for the Five Stars)

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Help, the municipalities have run out of money (and this also explains the vote for the Five Stars)

From administrations forced to sell parts of roads to those in which employees are employed as street cleaners: years of cuts have left thousands of municipalities broke. An austerity that has especially affected the South, with obvious consequences on the last vote. (Of Gianni Balduzzi, LAWS)

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The Five Star Paradox (and not only that): to govern you have to betray the voters

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The Five Star Paradox (and not only that): to govern you have to betray the voters

The refrain of the electoral campaign: “Having a prime minister elected by the people”. Bene, at present the parties must resign themselves to looking for a prime minister who is the result of political alchemy, Instead. In some cases governing means betraying one's voters. (Of Flavia Perina, LAWS)

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Consultations, we are back to the First Republic (but our leaders don't want to understand it)

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Consultations, we are back to the First Republic (but our leaders don't want to understand it)

With this absurd electoral law the leaders, from Salvini to Di Maio, to Berlusconi himself, raised in the school of the majority, they risk not being able to face the new Government operation. But everyone is hoping for the soft and cautious Mattarella. (Of Alessandro Giuli, LAWS)

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Salvini's real goal is to take over Forza Italia (and Di Maio is giving him a hand)

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The leader of via Bellerio works on a center-right in his image and likeness. He wants to be Berlusconi's successor. And he needs not to break the coalition. The pact with Di Maio serves to consolidate a new bipolarism: their
Of Alessandro Franzi

Not the mortal embrace with the Movement 5 position, but the definitive conquest of the center-right. E’ This is the horizon that Matteo Salvini's moves seem to indicate, after transforming the League (Nord) in the first party of the first coalition that emerged from the elections of 4 March. The meeting with i 5 position – the first party – it is a necessity due to the lack of a numerical majority in Parliament. But it is also something more. Both Salvini and Luigi Di Maio intend to manage the birth of what they consider the third republic, no longer only disconnected from twentieth-century ideologies but also disconnected from ties with traditional political families. And to do it both leaders, Salvini and Di Maio, they banded together to weaken their opponents: on one side Silvio Berlusconi, on the other, the Democratic Party. And to rewrite the rules of the game: an electoral law with a majority bonus that can be certified in the next elections, when they will be there, a new bipolarism. Their. A strategy that may not even pass through a political government between the League and the M5S, which would kill off all the novelty in one fell swoop.
Who and how will go to Palazzo Chigi, but, we will only see it in the next few weeks. What is certain is that Salvini has had in mind for a long time a centre-right that some would rename "Lega Italia". The name is not important, as much as strategy. From the end of 2013, the secretary of the Northern League has worked on the construction of his national proposal, no longer limited to Northern Italy. It has adopted unifying slogans: against the sovereignty ceded to the European Union, against new migrations, against Islam. He caused scandal with his speeches based on the desecration of politically correct. And he inaugurated what he always does well: a permanent electoral campaign, which came down to the South, passing through the regions of Central Italy which rewarded him with often double-digit electoral results. Salvini represents the new right. Not just the radical one that has been talked about in recent months. His extreme message reached a moderate electorate left without references, and therefore ready to rely without intellectual hesitations. Salvini therefore also represents a new centre-right, which no longer has its totem in Berlusconi.

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Sull'esito della tornata elettorale (by Marco Tarchi)

Of Marco Tarchi
On the outcome of the electoral round
Source: Vanity Fair

As he comments on the Movement's exploits 5 position (and of the League)?

Anything but unexpected. The symptoms of the growing disaffection of a good part of the electorate towardsestablishmenthad been evident for some time. It's a bit surprising that both managed to recover a fair share (Together, about the 10%) of those who until a month and a half ago declared they wanted to abstain.

He would technically define the M5S as a populist party?

No. I have always distinguished Grillo's political speech - which is fully populist - and the action of the M5S, which has tended to distance itself from it, especially after the death of Gianroberto Casaleggio. Today there are some traits of the populist mentality in the movement, but several others are missing.

Grillo said that the M5S managed to positively channel the repressed anger of Italians elsewhere (see France, Hungary and others) it was picked up by far-right movements. He agrees?

Yes and no, because I don't agree with the label of "extreme right" attributed to the Front National, to Orban or to the Austrian Fpö. They are populist parties. That said, Yes, the M5S also largely intercepted pushes that could have gone in that direction (Meaning what, from us, to the League).

Why has the M5S still achieved so much despite some stumbles in recent months? Voting for him is an act of faith? Read More

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