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12 August 2019Inciucio, institutional government, accordion, transition or purpose executive. The possibilities are open. And the scenarios follow each other from day to day. This afternoon the conference of the group leaders in the Senate will decide the timing and methods of the debate on the no-confidence motions to the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and to the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. While in the morning the parliamentary groups of the 5 Star Movement and the Democratic Party meet. All this while awaiting, in the next hours, a meeting between the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi.

Meanwhile, however, the President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, states that "the convening of the Assembly, in the event that the schedule of the works is not approved unanimously in the group leader, does not constitute any forcing, but exclusively the application of the regulation. Article 55, paragraph 3 provides that only the Assembly, which is sovereign, decides on the proposals for changing the calendar, not the President, therefore, "he adds, emphasizing that the" respect for the rules "is a" guarantee "of the citizens.

The decision, however, will clarify the times of the crisis better: if it will be an appointment near Ferragosto, the hypothesis of elections will soon be more concrete. If instead there will be longer times, the hypothesis is that we try to find the framework of a transitional government.

Possible scenarios.
In the Pd Matteo Renzi has resumed the scene proposing a 'no tax' government that, before going to the vote, makes the maneuver and brings to completion the cut of the parliamentarians. The offer is for those who are there: from the M5s to Leu, passing through FI. And with the openings of the Five Stars, Matteo Salvini has seen the ghost he was driving away for days become material, that of an agreement that removes the elections. For this he first launched his "maneuver" to avoid the increase in VAT, which includes tax cuts and fiscal peace. Then he scheduled for Tuesday a meeting with FI and FdI, to tighten the ranks in 'anti-messio' function.

In this scenario of variable geometry, more political forces have appealed to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, who will have to manage the post-fall phase of the Conte government. To the proposal of Renzi came the "No", some "we'll see", different "yes, but". The former premier dem can count on his parliamentarians, who are in the majority in both the Senate and the Chamber groups. But the secretary Nicola Zingaretti, "frankly", said "no" to "an experience of Pd-M5s government to face the dramatic budget maneuver and then perhaps to return to the elections", also for the "fear of the immense space that this would give to Salvini ".

On the left, among the enthusiasts of a 'no-tax government' is the former president of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, of Leu, who also has some names in mind for the premier: Conte or Tria. Even on the right the situation is fluid. FdI is in perfect harmony with the League and wants the Conte government to fall to go to elections as soon as possible. Because the polls are clear, they say that a Fdi-Salvini alliance would be a winner.

Forza Italia is for the vote immediately. But with some doubts. During the meeting with Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi, everyone will have to understand what the other is willing to grant. FI and FdI aim at a future alliance of government, which via Bellerio has so far not taken for granted. But Salvini also wants FI to say 'no' to the institutional government proposed by Renzi, in order to crush it.

Luigi Di Maio will bring together in Rome all the members of the 5 Star MoVement. "If we need to, we will be there even in mid-August - he explains - We must cut the 345 parliamentarians. We are one step away. It takes two hours! The only opening that interests us is this, we ask all political forces." To get out of the crisis, the Five Star leader relies on the decisions of the President of the Republic. "Mattarella is the only one who decides when and whether to vote. Already it is surreal that there should be a crisis in mid-August. Citizens are discharged with the concern not of the elections but of a crisis that will affect important measures for them - he said - a government will not settle before December: it will miss everything we have done, therefore income, share 100 ... We are talking about the future of our country ".