This is how the editor of Corriere della Sera, Urbano Cairo, has progressively changed his mind about Conte and therefore also about Draghi … I Graffi di Damato
Critics and opponents of Mario Draghi – you will see – will flea at Corriere della Sera for having somehow inflated a poll on the front page with which Europeans “vote” as their leader “first Merkel, then Draghi”. They will say – always critics and opponents of the Prime Minister – that the most popular Italian newspaper wanted to please its publisher, Urbano Cairo. Who has just explained to the newspaper of the Berlusconi family why, despite having been during the last government crisis in favor of a reconfirmation of Giuseppe Conte at Palazzo Chigi, and today very satisfied with Draghi. And woe, practically, to those who touch him, probably starting with the Count himself if he were to return to what appeared in recent days, even within the 5 Star Movement of which he is about to become president, that is, tempted by the idea of a crisis, or a break from the majority, to reopen the games. Now he seems sedated by the compromise he has torn on the reform of the penal process.
“I did not know that Draghi was available” to be in government, Cairo said to explain his substantial adherence, until January, to the so-called “Count or death line”, ie early elections. Not even he knew, evidently, of the opposition of the President of the Republic to send the Italians to the polls during the pandemic, stopped by the autumn journalistic indiscretions on Mattarella ready to dissolve the Chambers in advance. Once he learned, at the same time, of Mattarella opposing the vote and of Draghi willing to carry out the emergency government proposed to him by the Quirinale, the editor of Corriere della Sera became so convinced, so happy, so enthusiastic about the new Prime Minister that the his newspaper offered him that nice headline about “First Merkel, then Draghi ”in a“ survey in all countries ”of the Union. Which are not really all because the survey, conducted by various institutes under the aegis of Euroskopia, was actually limited to the five most populous countries – Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Poland – plus Austria. And it concerned not the actual leader of the European community, but who, among the various leaders, best faced the emergency of the pandemic.
To confirm the complexity and specificity of the problem, the marks from 1 to 10 were not high for anyone. Indeed, the results were a bit low for everyone, so already a pass was a success. The German Chancellor was the only one to join her at home and abroad, with the Community 6.15 and the German 6.41. Draghi took 6.45 in Italy and 5.73 away from home. All the others, from the French Emmanuel Macron to the Spanish Pedro Sanchez, from the Polish Mateus Morawecki to the Austrian Sebastian Kruz, remained everywhere well below the sufficiency, and that 5.73 of Draghi, as well as the president of the European Commission.
Yet, despite these numerical limits of the results of the poll emphatically announced by Corriere della Sera, precisely due to the gravity of the problem on which the various leaders have been weighed, that of Draghi seems to me an excellent position, despite the fact that it was only the ones who gave him almost 7. Italians. Given also the announced withdrawal of Merkel, Draghi’s European level of leadership is confirmed, he strengthens him at Palazzo Chigi and launches him more towards community than national goals. In short, his future seems to me to be projected more on Europe after the 2024 elections than on the Quirinale or Italy after the 2023 elections, or even before.
