An unthinkable agreement just a few months ago between the left-wing populist Five Star Movement (M5E) and the Democratic Party (PD) has managed to end the institutional crisis opened by former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini , who broke the previous government coalition to force an electoral advance. If many considered against nature the previous alliance between the extreme right that represents the League and the M5E, it is no less the new coalition between a social democracy that has called Beppe Grillo's party a solvent and a movement that brought Matteo's government down Renzi , whose party he accused of belonging to the caste. Politics, however, makes strange bed companions; and thus, two formations that have continued to seek insults since then and that have represented, respectively, the defense of democratic institutions and a radical anti-stablishment speech have made an effort of dialogue and cooperation with a double objective : to move the country away from the political and economic instability that would lead to an electoral repetition and curb the rise of ultra-right Salvini , boosted in the polls thanks to his racist decrees and the partisan use of the migration crisis.

The one elected to head the Government, former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte , does not miss the difficulty of forming a cohesive Executive that articulates his government action. It must give priority to the solution of the serious economic crisis that the country is experiencing, to the democratic regeneration that returns citizen credibility to politics and to counteract the international discredit that Italy has suffered due to the intolerable migration policies led by Salvini, which have a Important popular support. In addition, as two political forces that distrust each other, the distribution of charges will surely be grounds for dispute.

However, the lesson that Italy has offered us may well inspire the political class of our country. In less than a month, and thanks to the determined initiative of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella , Italy has solved an institutional crisis, avoiding a scenario of insecurity and restoring confidence in the nation. Mattarella has managed to convince the two formations of the importance for Italy of not returning to the polls and the need to form a government with guarantees of continuity. It is necessary to restore democratic normalcy, which goes through repealing unworthy decrees against gypsies and against the arrival of immigrants, abandoning europhous drives and preparing a budget project acceptable to Brussels , capable of combating the deficit and giving new impetus to the economy .

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