What happens to Conte
I Graffi di Damato
While Putin, sick or healthy, according to the various rumors about his health, begins to have to deal with the flames that the war unleashed against Ukraine has also reached the territory of his Russia, where fuel tanks have been hit it is not well understood whether by Ukrainian helicopters or by internal saboteurs, in Rome Giuseppe Conte is forced to realize the ephemeral nature of the victory that – always on the margins of the conflict in Europe – had seemed to him to have obtained in the improvised arm wrestling with Mario Draghi against the increase in military spending.
“Draghi on Defense has reversed”, the grillina vice president of the Senate Paola Taverna continued to boast today in the Fatto Quotidiano, a sort of political “pasionaria” of the former prime minister, but the same newspaper directed by Marco Travaglio, also convinced that Conte was the best Italian Prime Minister after Cavour, he proposed as a winning and challenging couple of the government, in a photomontage of the front page, the same Draghi and his Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, both riding a missile flanked by others.
This del Fatto is a more spatial version, so to speak, of the representation of the couple made by Emilio Giannelli in a front page cartoon in Corriere della Sera. Where Draghi safely pushes the shopping trolley of the government manned in arms by Guerini. That he is only the Minister of Defense and, in the party, the head of the current called “Reformist Base”, made up of the Renzians who remained in the Democratic Party, but in fact, with the offensive conducted or attempted by Conte, the real head of the Piddina delegation in government . Who formally continues to be the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando.
The balances in the Democratic Party in the last 48-72 hours have changed thanks to Conte, who will probably see the effects even in the newly opened game of the 600 and more appointments to be made in the bodies and companies controlled by the State. About which the pentastellated candidates will depend, at a guess, on the last word more of the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio than of the president of the Conte Movement, in favor of whose offensive against Draghi, complete with explanations provided to the President of the Republic , the young head of the foreign ministry never uttered a word or made a face. Here, Di Maio is in government, under the five stars, like Guerini for the Democratic Party.
Faced with this type of personal and political relationships, and in a legislative term now running out, which will be followed no later than next year by another in which the weight of the 5 Stars and the personal one of Conte will certainly be lower than the “centrality “Won in the 2018 elections, everything becomes random: even the six years, instead of four, granted in words not even directly by Draghi, but only by Guerini, to bring military spending to 2 per cent of GDP. And who knows in what international and, more particularly, European context, also due to the effects of the war in progress now even on Russian territory. In short, there do not seem to be any encouraging times for “Pochette”, as Conte was already ironically nicknamed at the Nazarene for his habit of bowing in his jacket pocket.
