There was one ready to replace him, Giuseppe Conte at this moment would be making the boxes together with his strategist Rocco Casalino. At the crucial moment, the two of them made all the mistakes, nobody is more willing to defend them. Yesterday was the turn of the ex friend Luigi Di Maio.
Alarmed by the international image of our country, the Foreign Minister said that “we also need responsibility in institutional communication”. He had it above all with Conte and Casalino, the first to throw gasoline on that fire which they are now unable to put out.
Even the bishops begin to show signs of discouragement for their pupil in Palazzo Chigi: Avvenire, the Cei newspaper, invokes the “duty to stop the chain of panic”.
The one that Conte fed. As for the entrepreneurs in the North, they were cold to him earlier; now, after the combined disaster with Covid-19, they would gladly send it to Wuhan.
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At the moment, however, there is no agreement on the name of another. Mario Draghi, summoned by the number two of the Lega Giancarlo Giorgetti as savior of the homeland at the head of a government of public health, can certainly not be burned for an executive who promises to last a few months (and in any case the former president of the ECB does not it would fit).
So Conte remains premier.
Not because someone appreciates or trusts him, but because of a lack of alternatives. This does not mean that his place is safe: if the situation worsens, the agreement on another name is found in a day.
And the Volturara Appula jurist has little time to avoid the abyss.
Also yesterday he moved like a boxer played. The pretension to call himself leader of a “united government for the nation”, that is, not to be overtaken by those who propose a true executive of national unity, is a dialectical onanism that leaves the time it finds, because it does not solve any of Italy’s problems. . The most serious of which is precisely what he helped to create: not the spread of the virus, but the blockade of the economy induced by alarmism.
The money does not run and to make turnover thousands of small entrepreneurs zero the profit margins or work at a loss; in order to face expenses they affect their assets, they put mortgages, they go into debt. All to avoid closure: they know that if they give up now, they risk not reopening again.
For the community, the damage is multiplied. If a bar, a restaurant or a hotel closes, in the State accounts the person who manages it passes from an active voice, as a taxpayer who devolves a substantial part of his / her income to the taxman and pays the employee dues to INPS to a net liability . Those who worked for him end up swelling the ranks of the unemployed and income earners of citizenship. The premises he occupied are likely to remain vacant for years.
Breathless – How long can these everyday heroes resist in apnea? Shortly. What does Conte offer them? To date, nothing. He is locked in the bunker, praying that tomorrow someone from the Higher Institute of Health or WHO will announce that the emergency is over and life can resume as before. Zero ideas, no strategy.
All the President of the Council and the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, do is rely on the European Union, which looks elsewhere for a change, as always when we are the ones who are the ones who are bored. The two show satisfaction because Brussels, now that we have caught the virus, cannot deny us the usual flexibility, which is actually less than a tip, since it is only the permission to spend money in deficit, destined to become debt that the rest of us will have to repay anyway. .
At least it was for something. Authorizing Conte, Di Maio and Nicola Zingaretti to do more public shopping – because this means “flexibility” for them – is like inviting them to the wedding: they are happy to increase welfare, but they do it without relieving in any way the economy, as our GDP collapsed on the ground shows. So Conte, who hoped to take advantage of the spirit of national unity to strengthen his position, suddenly discovers that his stay in Palazzo Chigi depends on what remedies he will be able to find, quickly, to a crisis that he himself has contributed to provoke .
All this when his government was ready to sign an increase in VAT, which at this point would be the last nail on the consumption coffin. Here, it is hoped that the virus serves at least one thing: to make it clear to Conte and Gualtieri that, if they want to stay on their armchairs, they must help the categories they produce, instead of the trifles, and get rid of delusional ideas such as the ‘VAT.
by Fausto Carioti
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