Mario Draghi wins confidence in the Senate , but gets it narrow, with only 95 votes , due to the decision of Movimento 5 Stelle, Lega and Forza Italia not to participate in the vote . Therefore his resignation, already presented and then rejected by Mattarella for the parliamentary passage, becomes definitive.
According to sources, the Prime Minister will announce his intention to resign at the Quirinale where he did not go up this evening in the Chamber of the Chamber tomorrow, at the beginning of the general discussion .
In his speech at Palazzo Madama he was clear: “There is a need for a strong and cohesive government . Italy needs a new concrete and sincere development pact. Have you left, are you ready to rebuild this pact? ”.
A call to national unity in the name of which he had accepted the post at Palazzo Chigi, but failed at the end of the showdown in the Senate, called following the government crisis opened last week by the 5 Star Movement .
A day ( THE CHRONICLE ) from the epilogue by no means taken for granted, given the scenarios that, over the course of the hours, have followed, changing and reciprocating, until the evening, when the beginning of the end for the executive has materialized.
THE SPEECH OF DRAGHI - In launching his challenge to the parties, Draghi had asked the parties to guarantee "the democratic legitimacy of the executive and its effectiveness ." But his speech was also studded with arrows, especially to the 5 Stars, to the repeated attacks on possible changes to super bonuses and citizenship income (not counting foreign policy).
Draghi, in his speech, did not spare - without ever mentioning it - not even the League, due to the shocks imposed on the executive's activity in recent weeks. And in the end the Lega itself, together with Forza Italia, presented - "amazed" by the premier's words - its condition not to pull the plug on the government: we go ahead, but with a new agreement and - above all - without the 5 Star Movement.
RESOLUTIONS - For his part, Draghi, in his rejoinders, was lapidary: the resolution to be voted on must be the one presented by Senator Casini. That is: "The declarations of the Prime Minister are approved". Point. From the series: if you love me, otherwise see you and thank you.
And in the end Lega and Forza Italia, as well as the 5 Star Movement, have chosen not to participate in the vote or to remain in the classroom but without voting, in order not to miss the quorum. And it was trust, yes, but skimpy, insufficient - politically - to move forward. A conclusion that leaves aftermath and actually opens the electoral campaign in view of the vote, which will presumably take place in the autumn.
THE M5S - "You, President Draghi, had said that a high-profile government must not identify with any political force. Let me say that a high-profile government should not even side clearly with a political force, as has been done. ", said the leader of the M5s in the Senate, Mariolina Castellone in her declaration of vote, accusing Draghi of having tried to dismantle the pentastellated warhorses, from citizenship income to super bonuses.
FI AND LEGA - “With bitterness but with the tranquility of those who have tried to find a solution until the end, Forza Italia will not participate in the vote of confidence”, the words of the Italian group leader Bernini.
As for the League, Matteo Salvini did not speak, but Senator Stefano Candiani: "The problem is not you, President Draghi, who is a figure of guarantee and stability, but it is the Democratic Party and the M5s who have only created fibrillation in this path ".
"Everything - added Candiani - was wrecked by the inconsistency of the M5S which in this majority, as we had already verified, only put fibrillation on fibrillation".
THE PD - "Today was a dramatic day for Italy", reads instead a note released by the Democratic Party. “The choices of Lega and Forza Italia on the one hand and of the M5S on the other are serious and wrong. Unfortunately, it will be the whole country - citizens and towns, starting with the most fragile and most frightened ones - to pay the bill for these choices. A crisis wrong from the start that has exploded in the worst way today. Whoever buryed the Draghi government - the DEM concludes - went against Italy. "Shortly before, the democratic secretary Enrico Letta had spoken, in a tweet, of" a day of madness ".
GELMINI LEAVES, MELONI EXULTA - Ferment also in Forza Italia, which loses Mariastella Gelmini, who has decided to leave the party after years of militancy, in protest against the decision to follow the line of the League. "Forza Italia has definitively turned its back on Italians, families, businesses, productive classes and its history, and has given the scepter to Matteo Salvini", explained the senator.
Giorgia Meloni, on the other hand, rejoices: "If all goes well, we can vote in two months, we are ready", said the head of Fdi.
"We became the target of a political attack, we were put at the door, there were no conditions for us to be able to continue with loyal collaboration", the words of the president of the M5s Giuseppe Conte.
RENZI - Amaro, finally, the comment of Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia Viva: “From tomorrow nothing will be the same again. But today there is only to say thanks to Mario Draghi. Proud of having wanted it against everything and everyone. Proud to have supported him even today ”, his tweet after the vote.
The word now passes to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella .
(Unioneonline / lf)