Negotiations continue to untie the knot on the future of the Draghi government , with the premier who in these hours previously saw the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta at Palazzo Chigi and then went up to the Quirinale.
Wednesday the first exam for the Prime Minister in the Senate Hall, where the 5-star parliamentarians express the hard and pure wing of the Movement , the one that wants to leave the government. Then Thursday will be the turn of the Chamber.
In the center-right, Silvio Berlusconi left his refuge in Sardinia and convened a summit with Matteo Salvini at Villa Grande, in which "bewilderment was expressed because President Mario Draghi received the secretary of the Democratic Party and not the leaders of the other majority parties. , after which, moreover, a political verification had been requested ”.
Protests also rained down from the center over the meeting between Letta and Draghi. The premier, Lega and Forza Italia said, "cannot manage the crisis with the Democratic Party alone".
Then, after a phone call between Draghi and Berlusconi, the representatives of the government center-right were also received at Palazzo Chigi.
In the evening, Letta himself said he was convinced that Wednesday "will be a beautiful day", underlining however that each party "must assume its responsibilities".
Meanwhile , according to the rating agency Fitch "the resignation of Mario Draghi as prime minister of Italy after a split in his government of national unity heralds greater political uncertainty even if early elections are avoided ". "The short-term implications for economic and fiscal policy depend on political outcomes - reads a note - but structural reforms and fiscal consolidation are likely to become more challenging".
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Here are all the updates on the government crisis by the hour
Letta: "Wednesday will be a beautiful day"
"Tomorrow morning I wake up calm. Absolutely peaceful. Tomorrow will be a beautiful day, I'm sure". This was stated by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, interviewed at the Festa dell'Unità in Rome.
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The center-right also meets Draghi
The government center-right, in all its components, is on its way to Palazzo Chigi to meet with President Mario Draghi. There will be Matteo Salvini, Antonio Tajani, Lorenzo Cesa and Maurizio Lupi. The rendezvous was organized a little while ago, with a phone call between Silvio Berlusconi and the premier.
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Draghi in the House Thursday
In the Chamber, communications from Prime Minister Mario Draghi will be held on Thursday. This was decided by the conference of Montecitorio group leaders whose work is still in progress. From 9 to 11.30 there will be a general discussion. At 11.30 the replica of Draghi.
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Pd da Mattarella, center-right "incredulous"
"The disbelief of the center-right government, which is confronting itself in Villa Grande, for the provocations of the Democratic Party: the premier cannot manage such a complex crisis by dealing only with the wide field of the Democratic Party and 5 Stars, even more so after a crisis caused by the tear of Giuseppe Conte and the provocations of the Democratic Party ". It is learned from sources of the government center.
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Di Maio: "Two sensational facts after Draghi's resignation"
"Two sensational political events have occurred since Draghi's resignation to date. Demonstrations and certificates of support for the Draghi government so that it can remain in office: over 1600 mayors, civil society, entrepreneurs, the financial community and the international one. of the Chamber of the M5S group, today Conte's party, expressed the will to vote for confidence in the Draghi government, beyond the will of the top management ". Thus the minister Luigi Di Maio during the joint assembly of Together for the Future.
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Draghi al Colle: "Usual meeting in a delicate phase"
This morning's meeting between Sergio Mattarella and Mario Draghi is part of the usual interlocutions between president and premier, especially in delicate phases such as the current one, and the day after the trip to Algeria. Sources from the Quirinale underline this.
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Breton: "In the EU complicated crises, we need continuity"
The government crisis in Italy "is not good news, we have great respect for the exceptional work carried out by Prime Minister Mario Draghi". This was said by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, in response to a question on the Italian political situation. "To manage the crises we are going through and in particular the energy crisis, we need government continuity and hopefully it will last," he said. "Continuity is what we need, because the moments we face are complicated and we will have to show a lot of unity and solidarity".
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Today the center-right summit of the government in Villa Grande
A summit of the center-right government is scheduled for lunch at Villa Grande, where FI leader Silvio Berlusconi is staying in Rome.
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Draghi at the Quirinale
Prime Minister Mario Draghi went to the Quirinale this morning to meet President Mattarella.
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Read in conversation with Draghi
The secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta this morning was at Palazzo Chigi, to talk with Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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Fitch: "Without Draghi, fiscal consolidation is more difficult"
"Mario Draghi's resignation as Italian prime minister after a split in his national unity government heralds greater political uncertainty even if early elections are avoided." This was stated by the rating agency Fitch in a note. "The short-term implications for economic and fiscal policy depend on political outcomes, but structural reforms and fiscal consolidation are likely to become more challenging," he adds.
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Calenda: "Draghi don't treat, take or leave"
Mario Draghi must continue to govern, but only if the parties accept his conditions. This was stated in an interview with QN by the leader of Action Carlo Calenda who says he is "among those who strongly want Mario Draghi to lead the country in one of the most dramatic moments in our history. But Mario Draghi cannot be expected to become the lightning rod of party irresponsibility ". This is why the prime minister "cannot be asked, and must not, to remain at any cost and regardless". "Mario Draghi - says the leader of Action - must go to Parliament and make a final speech, clearly saying how he intends to govern from now until the end of the legislature". In particular, "he must explain that he will no longer tolerate the Lega's crazy requests for a budget shift or a counter-reform of pensions. And that he will no longer accept the no and vetoes to infrastructures, regasifiers, waste-to-energy plants for the grillini and the left" .
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Brunetta: "A renewed project can convince Draghi"
Prime Minister Mario Draghi can be persuaded to remain in his post from a "new perspective" shared with political forces. "The parties that recognize themselves in the Draghi-Mattarella agenda - says the Minister for Public Administration Renato Brunetta in an interview with Corriere della Sera - must renew a clear and firm responsibility towards the country". On the eve of the vote of confidence in the Chambers, Brunetta argues that the parties must demonstrate to the premier "a trust that is no longer just emergency, but purely political, to give continuity and stability to government action". According to the minister, "the costs of six months early polls appear to be far greater than the benefits," he adds.
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Salvini: "I respect Draghi but it is difficult to act like this"
"I respect Draghi, but with a Parliament so blocked and contentious, in the hands of dozens of party changers for personal interest, and with some clearly inadequate left-wing ministers, it is difficult to do something useful for Italians in the coming months. Salary increase. and pensions, Flat Tax and fiscal peace, autonomy and blocking of illegal immigration, abolition of Fornero and Quota41, return to clean nuclear power and defense of the family ". This is what emerged, according to what is learned, in the course of an exchange of views between Matteo Salvini and some parliamentarians on the sidelines of the Lega assembly in progress in the Chamber.
(Unioneonline)