Quirinale, Mattarella has given the task to Conte: he will be executive under the banner of novelties

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Mattarella gave Conte the task of forming the government. The Prime Minister has accepted with reserve and today he has started consultations with parliamentary groups to start a discussion on the program and on the organization charts of the new government. The meetings therefore also serve to understand what the exact numbers of the majority will be both in the Chamber and in the Senate.

After leaving the Quirinale, Conte immediately went to Palazzo Giustiniani for an interview with Senate President Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. Then he went to the Chamber, where he was received by President Roberto Fico.

The first delegation to be received by Conte in Montecitorio, in the Busti room, was that of the Misto - Maie group. It was therefore the turn of 'More Europe-Democratic Center' ("we will decide on trust tomorrow after the direction", they let us know); "Us with Italy-Usei" (which has already announced the 'no' to trust a Count bis); Mixed - "Civica Popolare" ("We will vote the trust" announces Beatrice Lorenzin); Mixed - "PSI", Mixed - "Dream Italy 10 times better"; "For the Autonomies" and "Free and Equal".

Tomorrow it will be the turn of the 'big'. At 9.30 am Count will see the Brothers of Italy (there will be no Melons), then it will be up to the League (absent Salvini and the group leaders, at 10.30 from Senator will go Senator Durigon and the deputy Bergonzoni); then Forza Italia (11.30), Pd (12.30) and M5S (13.30).

The premier, reported to the parties he is meeting, will then take a few days to reflect, draw up the program and define the government team, and would have given Tuesday or Wednesday as an indicative date to return to the Quirinale and dissolve the reserve. From that date, the process that provides for the oath to the Quirinale for President of the Council and ministers will start, programmatic speech to the Chambers (it will begin from Montecitorio) and trust of the two branches of the Parliament.

Conte's speech at the Quirinale: "It will be an executive in the name of novelty"
A government "in the sign of novelty", a "new political project", "a broad reforming season". The speech with which Giuseppe Conte communicated to the Italians that he accepted - with reservation, as usual - the task received from Sergio Mattarella is full of 'clues'. Several listeners are interested in the words he has spoken in the Loggia d'onore, starting with Pd and M5S, forces that will have to support the executive that is about to be born.

"It will not be a government" against "but a government to modernize the country and for the citizens. I will implement a government in the sign of novelty is what the political forces also require", said the premier in his speech. "We are at the dawn of a new EU legislature and we need to make up for lost time to allow Italy to play the leading role it deserves. The country needs to proceed quickly," he said.

Among the priorities indicated is the budget maneuver . "I will immediately work for a maneuver that contrasts the increase in VAT, protects savers, gives a solid prospect of growth and social development," he said. Conte spoke of a "reforming season, of revival, of hopes, which offers the country certainties". We will work for "a better country, a country that has safe infrastructures, efficient networks, that feeds with renewable energies, that enhances the common good, that integrates eco-sustainable well-being that removes inequalities of all kinds into its own political agenda" .

"It must be a country of reference in the protection of people with disabilities, that does not let young people disperse with experiences outside but that it is an attractive country for young people who are abroad, that sees a luxuriant South. A country in the which the public administration is not permeable to corruption, a country with a fairer and more efficient justice where everyone, but everyone, pays taxes but pays less ". This was stated by Giuseppe Conte at the end of the meeting with Mattarella. "Very often in the public interventions so far I mentioned the formula of a new humanism, I never thought it was the slogan of a government but the ideal horizon of the country".

Meanwhile, the first EU reactions have arrived.

Juncker sends 'Happy Birthday' to Conte
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker sends his "best wishes" to Giuseppe Conte "to succeed in his task of forming a government. Italy plays a central role in the European family and we count on its active contribution to the European project" . So the European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva, who announces a phone call between Juncker and Conte today.

Oettinger: there will be more availability from the EU
The new task conferred on Conte is "a positive development". Now we expect Italy to have "a pro-European government that does not work against Europe", said outgoing EU commissioner Guenther Oettinger in a radio interview with Swr. Brussels "is ready to do anything to facilitate the work of the Italian government when it takes office and to reward it," he added, stating that "there will be more space for a social policy, even if the Social Democrats know well that the unlimited debt in the eurozone is a loss for everyone ".