An agreement to govern Italy | The Democratic Party …

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The crisis began on August 8, when the Minister of the Interior and extreme right wing of the League, Matteo Salvini, sent a letter to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte informing him that the government could not advance such that he was. And after 20 days of back and forth, discussions between political parties and meetings of politicians with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, the crisis seems to be over Wednesday thanks to an agreement reached between the Movement five-star (M5S) and the Democratic Party (PD).

After two days of new meetings with parliamentarians and politicians, Mattarella has indeed called Thursday at 9:30 the resigning Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, at the Quirinal Palace, seat of the presidency. This suggests that Conté will be responsible for forming a new government, in accordance with Italian rules and traditions.

But for the formation of the new government, Conté must agree on a program between the two new allies and then propose only a ministerial cabinet he must submit to the President and Parliament so that both give their approval without which they could not exercise. And it will take a few more days.

"We informed the President of the Republic that we accept the proposal of the M5S to indicate, as a relative majority party, the name of the new Prime Minister," said the secretary of the DP, Nicola Zingaretti, at the Group exit Wednesday meeting with Mattarella Conté was the person indicated by the M5S and accepted by the PD.

The decision of the PD nevertheless generated divisions within the party. Even a member of the management, Carlo Calenda, decided to leave his post. The secretary of the DP, Nicola Zingaretti, also was not in agreement early with negotiating with the M5S and declared that he preferred elections. But later, he changed his mind because, within the PD, there were also sectors such as senator and former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, convinced that it was necessary to put in place a new government that would give the Italians confidence and prevent the country from falling into the country. economic recession

Zingaretti's statement was very clear about the agreement with the M5S. Because there is the "demand", he said, "to build a government of change and discontinuity for this country". "We have before us a new challenge, a new political, civil and social position, the creation of a new government that convinces the Italians that economic and social difficulties exist but that can be overcome with the commitment of all, "he added.

According to official data, the alliances M5S (party of the relative majority in the Parliament) and PD (third Italian party in the elections of 2018 after the Liga) could obtain a majority in the Chamber of Deputies (327 parliamentarians in total). 630) in the Senate, it would have 158 senators (out of 319), three less than half plus one, needed to obtain a majority. Some badysts do not rule out that they can get votes from the mixed group or the free and equal group.

Salvini, on the other hand, who understood that he had made a serious mistake in generating the government crisis – because, based on data from the May European elections in which he had been described as the first party in Italy, he thought he should go immediately to the elections in Italy He would be in favor – he was trying every day to attract the attention of the M5S by proposing the reorganization of the coalition and the vote in parliament of certain laws of particular interest to the M5S, such as the decrease in the number of parliamentarians already under discussion. The M5S, who called Salvini a "traitor" for triggering the crisis, did not want to know anything about a new deal and continued talks with the DP. On leaving the meeting with Mattarella, M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said that Salvini had even offered to become prime minister in the event of a restructuring of the alliance. But he rejected it. "I am interested in the best for the country, not for me. I reject the offer of the League although I do not give up the work done with them during these months, "said Di Maio.

The league, meanwhile, has lost several points of consensus among voters, according to some polls published in recent days. And that's why Salvini tracks his attacks via Facebook, Twitter and all possible internet media. In one of the latest videos, he asks Mattarella to "end this indecent show" by referring to the M5S-PD deal. "They are desperate and eager to do everything to keep their presidency. They will not have a majority in this Parliament, "he said. And when he left his meeting with the President of the Republic, evoking the new alliance, he said: "A new government will be that a long agony that will take us to elections in the end"