A few months after the end of Sergio Mattarella's mandate at Colle, the toto-names for the new President of the Republic are already going crazy.
In pole position, as is well known, is Mario Draghi, who for many could move from Palazzo Chigi to the Quirinale. In this case, politics would be faced with a crossroads: to continue with the legislature with a natural expiry in 2023 (in this case the name of Daniele Franco, current Minister of Economy, is mentioned as prime minister) or to return immediately to the polls, as he asks above all the Brothers of Italy (a hypothesis that even the Lega would not mind).
After SuperMario, the polls on presidents who would be more welcome to Italians indicate the name of Silvio Berlusconi. An option obviously very welcome to Forza Italia and which also finds support in the other center-right forces.
But the hypotheses of the candidates that circulate more or less openly are many. From the former UDC leader Pierferdinando Casini to the former Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury Giuliano Amato.
And there is no shortage of women. Primarily Marta Cartabia, former president of the Constitutional Court and current Minister of Justice. And then Elisabetta Casellati, president of the Senate in office.
Moreover, the names of Emma Bonino and Liliana Segre, as well as that - evergreen - of Romano Prodi, which already in 2013 seemed destined for the Colle, but which instead was sensationally "drowned" have been shot in the newspapers, among appeals and consortiums.
Finally, the extreme ratio, which however at the moment would not find availability on the part of the person concerned: a Mattarella-bis, as Giorgio Napolitano already had to do, remained two years more to allow the political situation of the country to stabilize.
Mattarella would only need one year of “overtime.” Until the new political elections, which would allow the election of a new president with a new Parliament and, above all, newly legitimized by the voters.
(Unioneonline / lf)
