• President Mattarella promulgates Dl Sicurezza with relief letter
  • Government, conversation between Conte and Mattarella al Quirinale. "No crisis or resignation hypothesis"
  • Government, Salvini: "Something broke in the last few months"
  • Salvini's ultimatum: radical change of government or going to elections
  • Tav: the Senate rejects the 5S motion, the opposition passes. The summit ended at Palazzo Chigi
  • Tav, Zingaretti: Count immediately at Colle, it has no majority
  • Tav, Berlusconi to Salvini: the vote is the best solution
  • Salvini and the Manovra: "No to the game of the three cards, down the taxes and via the Tasi"
  • Viminale, Salvini: "From social partners yes to Tav and no minimum wage"
  • Salvini, tension with M5S: "No to other months of arguments. Toninelli? He is not up to par"

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09 August 2019

The earthquake that hit the Italian government, with the deputy premier Matteo Salvini who opened the crisis by asking to go immediately to the vote, returns to overheat the spread. The spread between the BTP and the Bund continues to grow today and in the morning it is up at 234 points with the Italian ten-year bond yield at 1.74%. In the morning important hints will be able to arrive in this sense also from the auction of annual bots for 6.5 billion planned by the Treasury, while in the evening there is waiting for the update of the rating on our country by Fitch.

Salvini opens the crisis: "I'm a prime minister"
"Needless to go on with no shocks and quarrels, as in the last few weeks. Italians need certainty and a government to do, not" Mr. No ". Matteo Salvini puts it on paper that "we don't want extra seats or ministers, we don't want reshuffles or technical governments: after this government, which has done so many good things, there are only - he warns - the elections". This is the outcome of the summit with Conte at Palazzo Chigi yesterday afternoon.

Matteo Salvini wants to go to the "vote as soon as possible" and the "temptation" is to "run alone", without alliances with other parties, in any "elections to be held between late September and early October". The head of the League at the end of the meeting held in Pescara announces: “I am a candidate premier. We ask the Italians the strength to take this country in hand and save it. "The first sentence as a premier candidate, Matteo Salvini, pronounces it in the night:" I ask the Italians if they want to give me full powers to do things the way they are done. "

Conte challenges Salvini, mine is not a beach government And he warns, you don't decide times for crisis
Not a "government of the No", not a "beach government". Giuseppe Conte leaves, but takes the field. At the end of a long and difficult day, on the day of his 55th birthday, while his experience as President of the Council seems to have ended, the professor presents himself in the press room at Palazzo Chigi. He announces that he will present himself in Parliament, because it will have to be the Chambers (Salvini is not enough) to defy him, and he reveals that if the leader of the League has decided to interrupt the Gialloverde experience, it is only because he wants to "capitalize his consent".

Luigi Di Maio also says this, attacking from the tg1 screens: "Salvini puts the polls in front of the country". And then: "With the October elections there will be a government that will take office in December" and will probably "increase VAT", says the M5s leader who assures: "We are ready to vote".

Meanwhile, Conte announces in the morning to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella that if the crisis must be, he will be in Parliament. He reiterates this in the afternoon to Salvini, in a very tense conversation. Then late in the evening he shows up in the press room, a blue suit and clutch bag, with a piece of paper on which he has written words that make him a candidate for Salvini in the political season that opens. "Yesterday and Salvini came to talk to me this afternoon and he told me he was going to interrupt this experience of government and to go and vote to capitalize on the consensus currently enjoyed by the League", he begins. "I have already made it clear to Salvini that I will ensure that this crisis is the most transparent in the history of republican life," he adds. And while the Northern League leader, from a rally in Pescara, invites parliamentarians to "raise their ass as soon as possible" and interrupt the holidays to vote for the (s) confidence in the executive, the prime minister stands as defender of the chambers, that "I'm not a nasty freak". Ensures "transparency and change until the last day". And the Interior Minister says that "it is not up to him to decide the times of the crisis". Salvini's challenge is to present himself, as senator, in the Chamber, to "explain": there will be "clarity" of "responsibilities" because one cannot "hide behind media slogans".

Di Maio: "A difficult day, but I am calm. We work for the country"
"It's a difficult day, we're working for the country, I'm calm," says Luigi Di Maio, leaving Palazzo Chigi to go, as he himself says, to his brother's 25th birthday party. To the questions of reporters on a possible parliamentarization of the crisis, he replies: "There are no ifs, what I can say is that we are working for the country". "I am calm, I wish you good work and have a good day. I thank you for the job, I know that we are ruining a few days off," he adds. "There are all the talks in progress that are needed, Palazzo Chigi is paid to work for the Italians ", he concludes.

The proposal to Salvini: cutting of parliamentarians, then elections
"There is a fundamental reform in September, which concerns the final cut of 345 parliamentarians. It is an epochal reform, we cut 345 seats and send home 345 old politicians. If we reopen the Houses for parliamentarization, at this point we grasp the "Opportunity to also anticipate the vote of this reform, let's vote for it now and then give the Italians the floor again. Mine is an appeal to all political forces in Parliament: let's vote for the cut of 345 seats and then vote".

The opposition calls for a return to the polls
"This country no longer has a majority. The experiment that started 13 months ago failed", states the leader of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, who invites the Italians to be "consistent. If there is no parliamentary majority, go to the vote".

"The institutional rules are reduced to ridicule. The dangers to democracy, at this time, do not come from the risk of authoritarian turning or fascist upsurge. But from democracy to farce. We need to react with determination", the deputy secretary of the press writes on twitter of the Democratic Party Andrea Orlando.

Also for Forza Italia "Prime Minister Conte should remove Italy from a condition of embarrassment and stalemate that is not good for anyone. The only solution is to go early to the vote", says the leader Mariastella Gelmini.