Government: negotiation uphill between PD and 5 stars, still differences on program and names

• Zingaretti: finally the confrontation started
• Salvini: the classic Italian ribaltone
• Consultations at the Quirinale, tomorrow at 4 pm
• Government, Pd and M5s continue to negotiate. Meeting at Palazzo Chigi Di Maio-Zingaretti
• Biarritz, Conte: here to reiterate our country's prestige, Italian party leaders work well
• Conte: the political experience with the League is closed, it will not reopen

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A few hours after the second round of consultations at the Quirinale with the head of state, the evening summit at Palazzo Chigi between Zingaretti, Orlando, Di Maio and Conte on the Giallorossi alliance closes with nothing. And the post-summit declarations make it clear that the corners to be smoothed out are many. "Road uphill on program and contents. Differences emerge on the financial maneuver. Today we continue": this is how dem sources. "It is a delicate moment and we ask for responsibility, but patience has its limits. Italy cannot wait, we need certainties. We await their official position on Conte": this is the case with M5S sources. Zingaretti will not join an M5s-Pd government, it will remain in the Region. This is confirmed by dem sources. A new summit should be held this morning at 11am.

Zingaretti: "Confronto has finally left for a breakthrough government"
Yesterday afternoon after the first face to face with Di Maio, Nicola Zingaretti. "I am reading a lot of backstage, some credible others less. The truth is that the confrontation has finally started to give the country a turning-point government," said the Pd secretary.

"We don't want a 14-month government"
"We are on the right track, I am optimistic that I can build this agreement. Making a government is a serious thing, we are serious people and we don't want it to end after 14 months" like the yellow-green one, says Zingaretti. "We need to listen to each other," Zingaretti himself said in the morning. At the Nazarene meeting of the summit dem. "We are ready to work on the contents, we can't wait to talk about what Italy needs. There are no vetoes," says group leader dem Andrea Marcucci coming out of the Nazarene.

Summit of the M5S
Yesterday afternoon, it took place in a private Roman house where there is an office that also functions as the branch of the Casaleggio associate, in via Paola in Rome, the meeting of the leaders of the 5-star Movement. Present were the political leader, Luigi Di Maio, the president of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, the vice president of the Senate, Paola Taverna, the group leaders of the Senate and Chamber, Stefano Patuanelli and Francesco D'Uva. Davide Casaleggio and Alessandro Di Battista, the president of the Antimafia commission Nicola Morra, the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Vito Crimi also participate. Absent, for now, the founder of the Movement, Beppe Grillo. At the end, no statement. The meeting took place on the eve of the second round of consultations at the Quirinale. Tomorrow the M5s parliamentary groups will meet at 7pm.

PD Direction today at 18
The national leadership of the PD was convened for today. The timetable, which was set at 6 pm, could undergo changes based on the evolution of the political situation.

Salvini: classic Italian style flap
The leader of the League attacks the possible agreement between M5s and Pd: "It is a turnaround ready for some time, if from a week to the other one passes from the Lega to the Pd. The agreement voted in Brussels on the Commission imposed by Merkel and Macron had the goal of bringing Italy back and explaining the many failures of the government in recent months ". Thus Salvini at a press conference. "The dignity and consistency are worth more than the ministries, I am proud of the League", he added. And then: "Renzi is right to sing victory. It takes guts to make the revolution with Prodi and Rebzi". "It seems that a government is being born that has the seats as the only glue, far from the real country", born of a "palace game". And to those who speak of protest in the streets, he replies: "I am a minister who deals with tranquility and security, not popular uprisings. The insurrections took place in 1848. You will not miss the fact that a government with the Democratic Party does not correspond to the popular sentiment, but I am concerned with guaranteeing rights and security, I do not organize popular uprisings, "added Salvini.

Renzi: Salvini obsessed with me
"Listening to the press conference of the next former Interior Minister, I have the impression that Salvini is slightly obsessed with me. And to say that this chaos did it all by himself. Relax, homonymous #NoTax #NoIva". Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi declared it via Facebook.

FI sources: Berlusconi worried about the ultra-left government
Silvio Berlusconi says he is worried about the prospect of the pact between M5s and Pd. The emergence of an "ultra-left" government, he would have said to those who heard him on the phone, "the leftmost government in the history of our Republic". The leader of Forza Italia bets that the 'giallorossi' will not have "the strength to avoid the VAT increase". And the representatives of Fi recall that the new majority would not reflect "the will of the citizens who have chosen the center-right for all the electoral tests for two years".

Melons: mess building against popular will
"Left the media bombardment of the left against the Brothers of Italy. For the Democratic Party asking for a vote is subversive, going to the streets to demonstrate is subversive, writing on social media is subversive. For them it is only democratic to mess up the will of the people. ". The FdI leader Giorgia Meloni writes on twitter.

+ Europe: under conditions given no to the M5s-Pd government
"The management of + Europa does not believe, under the given conditions, to offer preventive support to the government, the result of a two-way agreement between the M5S and Pd". This is what we read in the note adopted by the management of + Europa. And he continues: "Of course, + Europa will follow the evolution of the crisis carefully and will assess a definitive position when programs, objectives and composition of the new executive are known. This evaluation will be taken in the light of the + Europe programs, initiatives and priorities , in particular on public finance, immigration, rights, environmental sustainability, justice, and relations with the EU ".

Consultations at the start in the afternoon
Yesterday the Press Office of the Presidency of the Republic announced the calendar of consultations. Tuesday, August 27 : the former President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, not being in Rome, will be heard by telephone. HOURS 16.00 President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati 17.00 HOURS OF THE HOUSE, Roberto Fico 18.20 HOURS Mixed Senate Group 18.40 Mixed Chamber Group

Wednesday 28 August : 10.00 am Parliamentary Group "For the Autonomies" (Svp-Patt, Uv) "of the Senate 10.30 am LeU parliamentary group of the Chamber 11.00 am Parliamentary groups of Fratelli d'Italia 16.00 Parliamentary groups of the Democratic Party 17.00 Parliamentary groups of Forza Italia 18.00 HOURS Parliamentary groups of the League 19.00 HOURS Parliamentary groups of the 5 Star Movement.