Conte safe, but on the line of numbers: what the premier will do now

The Conte government is still alive. It could have “been better”, that’s for sure. But given the circumstances we say that it would have been more likely to have gone worse. THEthe final response of the count in the Senate was 156. Intermediate: did not exceed the 161 absolute majority, but did not stop at 155.

The premier, at the moment, must be satisfied “Because we are moving forward and now we must run, to overcome the health emergency and the economic crisis”. But as you well know, it’s certainly not over here: now the prime minister has two weeks of fire.

With these small numbers, the work will not be easy to solidify this majority. Conte’s plan cannot ignore a fundamental step, at this point: the centrist group at Palazzo Madama must be born quickly. Because the real question is governability.

He knows it but Mattarella knows it too, from whom Conte will probably go up today to discuss the future. And the premier knows that the head of state it will underline the structural weakness of the executive and he will remind him of all the arguments to be resolved based on the uncertainty of the actual operation of the government (for example when the Renzian sabotage could be unleashed in the commissions) and the urgency of certain measures that cannot be postponed. As the closure of the Recovery plan and its governance, the vaccination campaign jammed, i refreshments to be accredited and the growing social pressure.

Victory without an absolute majority snatched by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, it can be passed as a viaticum for continuity, but in reality it opens a new, tense, precarious phase. But the way of caution that Franceschini really likes, seems not to displease even the Quirinale.

The EU fears a weak Italy

There is great concern in Brussels about the fate of the Italian plan to access the 209 billion that the 750 billion Next Generation Eu reserves for the Peninsula. Yesterday, the vice-president of the European Commission, the inflexible Latvian Valdis Dombrovskis, expressed the Union’s concern at the end of the Ecofin: “I hope that the political instability in Italy does not jeopardize the work on the Recovery Plan because Rome is the main beneficiary and we need to make sure that the funds arrive soon to make the recovery flourish in the country ».

The European fears about the quality of the plan are now joined by those linked to the Italian political crisis and the fragility of the government majority, which has slowed down its drafting. Indeed, 11 countries have already informally sent their plans to Brussels, while Italy has just “presented a substantial number of elements”.