Mattarella sees Fico and Casellati. Consultations resume today

Consultations with the head of state open at the Quirinale Sergio Mattarella after the premier's resignation Joseph Conte, and they could only be marked by the Coronavirus: few journalists and spaced out, wearing a mask and sitting in the Ballroom instead of in the better known Sala della Loggia, closed for restoration. The first day at the Quirinale opens with the face to face of the head of state with the two presidents of the chambers, Elizabeth Alberti Casellati And Robert Fig, thirty minutes each; at the exit, as is customary, no political declaration, only the third state office gives itself to the microphones to wish the press good work and to send a message to the Italians: "We are all working for the good of the country". The conversation with Casellati, it is reported, was intense, the most delicate one; however, the most crucial one remains the vis à vis with fig: the president of the House is one of the exponents of M5S, the most tormented in this crisis and the one who has the most to lose: the premier in the five-star share. In this first round of consultations on the table, in fact, the consistency and solidity of a possible was assessed Count ter. In fact, it is no coincidence that after his resignation the Apulian lawyer stopped in Fico's office in the Chamber for over an hour. The phone call to the president emeritus is also ritual Giorgio Napolitano, which already in the last consultations had not been able to go up to the Colle.

Today we will get to the heart of what is commonly defined as the political phase of the consultations. We will start with the smallest groups of the House and Senate: Autonomies at 10.00 and Mixed of the two Houses of Parliament who will be received at 10.30; at 11.50 it will be the turn of the newborn group of so-called Responsible. At 16.00 the eyes will be focused on the large group that includes various components and in which Conte hopes to find the necessary support. In the afternoon it will be the turn of Leu (16.45), Italy alive (17.30) and Democratic party (18.30). The focus is of course on Matthew Renzi, who will lead the delegation, which started the crisis: Mattarella will try to understand what are the true intentions of the former premier, who shouldn't name a name, if there is therefore the possibility of mending and possibly finding a programmatic agreement overcoming the vetoes to give the country a wide-ranging executive capable of reaching the end of the term.

The Group of Managers is born in the Senate, but the numbers are not there yet

It took the loan of a senator from the Pd to give birth to the Senate group of the willing, which it should support Joseph Conte in its race towards the ter. To shore up the help of Zingaretti also comes a bank from Come on Italy with the arrival, and the consequent farewell to the Azzurri, of the senator Louis Vitali (to which, it is whispered in the corridors of Palazzo Madama, another blue could be added tomorrow, Anna Carmela Minute). Renzi's party, which had already seen in the loan of the senator Dem a hostile gesture by the secretary of the Democratic Party towards him, registers the novelty and sees itself further weakened from a numerical point of view. The announcement of the establishment of the new group was given in the Chamber at Palazzo Madama by the president Maria Elisabetta Casellati, which reported that it will be called Europeanists-Maie-Centre Democrat. Reading the ten names (minimum number to form a group), the absence of emerged Lello Ciampolillo and of Sandra Lonardo Mastella. Without Senator Dem, the writer Tatjana Rojc, we would have stopped at nine; on the other hand, Rojc immediately clarified that he remains in the Democratic Party and that he only gave help to the birth of the group.

In any case, these are ten senators who had already voted for confidence on Tuesday 19 January, and eight of them had already voted for it before. To these, now, Vitali is added and, as confidently announces the leader of the Maie Ricardo Merlo, other senators now in opposition will arrive to support the Conte ter; The group leader And Raffaele Fantetti. Fantetti, Causin and Merlo will go to Mattarella to propose the reappointment to Giuseppe Conte. Sandra Lonardo Mastella he explained the reasons for not joining: the absence of the name of his political association "Noi campani" from the official wording of the group. It is only an apparent whim given that having a parliamentary group in one of the two houses of Parliament exempts from the collection of signatures in subsequent elections. At the moment the numbers of Senate timidly they leave the current 157 to be quoted at 158/159. At the Room the scenario is almost a photocopy: two former M5S senators who had voted on the 18th to trust Conte joined the component Democratic Center by Bruno Tabacci, who rises from 13 to 15. Operations in progress, therefore, which irritate, and not a little, the leader of Iv. Zingaretti, in the Management, said he harbored "founded doubts about Iv's reliability for the future", not the best way to sweeten Renzi who in fact spoke of a "genuine scandal".

Pd and M5S lock down Conte, Renzi raises the bar and tension

The premier resigned Joseph Conte is waiting to understand what will be the attitude of the majority and of Italy alive in talks with the President of the Republic. If he were to receive a pre-assignment he would go to negotiations on a new program and for a new executive with everyone, even with Iv, so at a later time, not now: no intention of burning his own cards. But in the majority it is by no means excluded that at this point the first path to be taken may be that of the exploratory mandate to the president of the Fico Chamber. The distances between the outgoing Prime Minister and Matthew Renzi for now they remain difficult to fill: the IV leader does not believe that the outgoing prime minister can continue on his path without seeking any agreement, without even reaching out; he does not see a change of course, so much so that a parliamentary source from Iv even questions the strategy decided the other day, namely that of not mentioning any names at the Quirinale. In short, the position could be even more intransigent in the absence of further signals. At the moment the game therefore remains blocked because the operation is also Maie-Cd pro-Europeans in the Senate he brought no additional numbers to the majority. There hunt for the willing continues; the rest of the leaders M5S, Pd And Leu they have armored the outgoing Prime Minister and at the moment they do not intend to think about a possible plan b.

Matthew Renzi he explained that there are no prejudices, that one thinks about the issues and not about the armchairs, relaunches the need for Italy to use the month or at least a part of it, and that there is a different management of the vaccine plan, but he also continues to believe that Conte is not the figure who can serve Italy at the moment. The moment he asks for one breakthrough in economic policy the conviction in the Giallorossi is that they want to aim to reset the government and to re-discuss in a possible Count ter all ministries and addresses of the executive. After all, Iv has been asking for a long time authoritative executive. The hypothesis that Conte ter could be political, that is to say contemplate the entry of the big names in the government, with the presence of deputy prime ministers, is not ruled out, but it will be necessary to understand Renzi's real intentions and whether a window towards Conte can be open or not. At the moment the tension is still high: Colle insists on the need for there to be no more vetoes and so is the Democratic Party with Nicola Zingaretti, strengthened by the pro Conte vote of the National Directorate of the PD, and the 5 star movement. But if by today there will be no steps by Conte, the risk is that the crisis could drag on for a long time. Conte doesn't trust Renzi, he believes that his only goal is to kill him, that he wants to raise the bar for tactics. On the one hand, the Democratic Party does not currently envisage alternatives and in the 5-star Movement the conviction is that the senator from Rignano wants to arrive at an institutional government with a Ursula majority, on the other hand, the leader of Iv is convinced that the sole purpose of the Giallorossi is to win over his senators. Among the alternative names for Palazzo Chigi continue to circulate those of Martha Cartabia And Luciana Lamorgese, for the Pd Dario Franceschini And Lorenzo Guerini and for the M5S Stephen Patuanelli And Louis DiMaio. But the match is on now Count ter and nothing else.

Salvini shuffles and opens up after Conte and relaunches a centre-right government

Matthew Salvini once again shuffles the cards in the centre-right and says that early elections are not a priority for the League. The position seems to clash with that of Giorgia Meloni, determined from the very first moment to resort to the polls, while it would be in harmony with the line of Come on Italy, that with Silvio Berlusconi it indicates, in the event of Conte ter's failure, two paths: the government of national unity or the elections, in fact. In the League we also think in intermediate stages: the first objective, while waiting to evaluate government solutions on which to eventually converge, is to see the road clear from Conte; at that point, with the current premier out of the game, they say, completely new scenarios open up, the crisis takes directions on which the center-right will have to make a new reflection.

Without Conte all balances must be rethought, not only for the forces of the former majority. Thus the Captain bets on the "de profundis of the people's advocate", rejects the ten leaders of the Senate branding him as wayfarers and opens to post Conte. For now, a single precise stake is fixed: "Never in government with the left". Translated: the Carroccio sees only one as an alternative to voting centre-right executive. "We will ask Mattarella" explains Salvini "if this Parliament can guarantee a solid majority: if the answer is yes, for me the only possibility, within this Parliament, is a centre-right-led government". Salvini's position, as it emerges in these hours, lends itself to new interpretations: inside Come on Italy and in centrist circles, in fact, they bet that in the end, under certain conditions and with a changed political framework compared to Conte ter, the League could at least evaluate the hypothesis of a purpose government (limited, for example, to the launch of a vaccination plan and the Recovery) and with a clear content of National unity.

In the Senate

After the decree on further urgent provisions to deal with the health risks associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus was definitively approved yesterday, today and throughout the rest of the week theSenate assembly he will not meet due to the opening of the government crisis. As regards the Commissions, the constitutional affairs, with Justice, it will discuss the bill for the prevention and contrast of the phenomenon of bullying and the re-education measures for minors. There Public Works will hold several hearings on the company's business plan outline Italy Air Transport Spa.

To the Chamber

Due to the opening of the government crisis, today theChamber of the Chamber it will not meet and will be convened at home. As for the Commissions, the Constitutional affairs will discuss the Proposal for a National Recovery and Resilience Plan. There Transportation will hold several hearings on the company's business plan outline Italy Air Transport Spa. All other committees will not meet.