Crisis, Mattarella calls Conte tomorrow at 9.30am

• Pd says yes to understanding. M5S defends vote on Rousseau: agreed with Conte. Di Maio: now solutions
• Government, negotiation Pd-M5S 'stop and go'. Conte: "Di Maio did not ask the Viminale"
• The Quirinale consultations are underway
• Zingaretti: finally the confrontation started
• Salvini: the classic Italian ribaltone
• Government, Pd and M5s continue to negotiate. Meeting at Palazzo Chigi Di Maio-Zingaretti

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The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, at the end of the second round of consultations for the formation of a government, summoned the President of the Council Giuseppe Conte at 9.30 am tomorrow morning. The decision, announced by communication advisor Giovanni Grasso, closes a long day that marks the turning point in the government crisis.

"There is a political agreement with the Democratic Party to allow Conte to be appointed to form a long-term government", said the political leader of the M5s, Di Maio, after meeting President Mattarella at the Quirinale.

Di Maio said "that in August 60 million Italians were in complete uncertainty due to an unexpected crisis" opened by the League. "The M5s is post-ideological, the solutions are not right-wing or left-wing. They are the programs, the themes, the real protagonists," he added. "Our objective remains to change Italy, putting people at the center, for a 'new humanism', as stated by Conte".

"Our program is always the same, we started a job and we want to bring it to an end. We don't run away". And then: "The League offered me to give the premier, but I refused. I am interested in the best for the country, not the best for my person". "I do not deny the work done in 14 months, and the recognition of Trump in Conte is the sign that we are on the right path". "We must start from a homogeneous program, only then will it be possible to define the offices, respecting the prerogatives of the President of the Republic and the President of the Council".



The afternoon consultations at the Quirinale began with the PD delegation. After the interview with the head of state, the dem secretary, Zingaretti, said that the party guarantees "support for the attempt to give life to a new majority".

By paving the way for Count Bis, the Democratic Party accepts "the proposal of the M5s to indicate the prime minister as a relative majority party" and underlines the need to "build a breakthrough and discontinuous government". And then: "There is no relay to continue, nor a witness to collect, but a new challenge to start."

"We need a new government that convinces Italians that economic difficulties can be overcome". "We love Italy and we believe it is right to try. It was impossible to avoid the responsibility of courage. We intend to end the season of hatred and fear," Zingaretti added. "We want a government that invests in businesses for economic growth based on legality and a new model of green development and that embraces a clear discontinuity of economic recipes in a redistributive key and attention to social, territorial and generational and gender equity" .

The Democratic Party wants "a government for those who are looking for a job and who wish to carry out their life project here," Zingaretti told the Quirinale. "A government for girls and boys who in a few days will return to sit at school desks or in university classrooms, for the many graduates and graduates that we have not been able to hold back by forcing them to seek elsewhere, often very far away, that right to the future which a great country like Italy must know how to offer ".

Sources M5S: shared Zingaretti words
Nicola Zingaretti has "made a speech that can be shared" in his intentions, obviously he will look at what will actually happen. But on the "we are" issues. This is what is learned from parliamentary sources of the 5 Star Movement, immediately after the statements of the Pd secretary at the end of the consultations held at the Quirinale.

Berlusconi: concern for the scenario that is emerging
After the PD delegation, Mattarella received the Forza Italia delegation. At the end of the interview, Berlusconi said that it is necessary "to give the Italians the floor again". The former prime minister expressed "concern about the scenario that is emerging. The looming government is a wrong political solution, inadequate to address the problems left by the resigning government".

"Italy needs a liberal and liberalist government that is friendly to companies and to those who work, to give hopes to young people", he added, and to fight "fiscal oppression, bureaucratic oppression and fiscal oppression ".

Berlusconi has announced an opposition against "a government that arises from a palace maneuver", stressing that a center-right is needed that is not populist and sovereign, with Forza Italia at its center, a genuinely liberal party, "the only force that proudly is part of of the European People's Party ". "Our opposition will, as always, be firm and uncompromising. In any case, our compass will be, as always, the interest of the nation before that of a political party or a party."



Salvini: the only glue is hatred against the League, better the vote
The leader of the League, Salvini, after the interview with the President of the Republic, expressed "the bewilderment for the indecorous little theater of the war for the seats we have been seeing for days". The premier candidate "found him in Biarritz, on the advice of Berlin, Paris and Brussels, a Monti-bis", he added. If the government is born "Pd-M5s will be a minority in Parliament and in the country".

"Dignity would like elections to take place, while what is looming is a government that has hatred of the League as its only glue". "We have not changed our mind and we are ready for the nine regional elections that will take place in the coming months. Salvini has strongly attacked the Democratic Party, defined several times as "party of the seats".

"We have the impression that there is a design that starts from afar, with a lack of respect for the Italian people. The truth is that 60 million Italians are hostage to 100 parliamentarians who are afraid of losing their seats".

"We are not afraid, a government born of hatred like the PD-M5s will not be able to deal with the country's concrete problems. We hope not to witness a long agony".