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11 September 2019 The list is not there yet. After another day of frenetic contacts, meetings, expectations and hopes of the aspirants, the game of the 42 undersecretaries of the new government is not closed. The ambassadors of M5s and Pd meet in the evening, to try to bring a more or less complete list of names to Giuseppe Conte in time for the Council of Ministers convened at 15. But the Dems are pessimistic: "We are ready but the Five stars no ". "We would like to accelerate but others want more time," says Leu.Haste stems from a stringent need: without the undersecretaries, the government's work cannot really begin. Conte da Bruxelles informs parties that he expects a list in time for the CDM: "It would be good to be able to complete the team". It cannot be ruled out that a Council of Ministers may or may not be referred to it on Friday morning. It would be a wish of Quirinale himself, according to parliamentary sources, that the government is at full strength and at full capacity as soon as possible. Conte should see delegations in the morning: Spadafora, Patuanelli, Franceschini and Orlando would have met - but there are no official confirmations - in the evening to accelerate. However, some knots remain to be resolved.
In the evening, according to reports, at the Palazzo Chigi between the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, the Foreign Minister and political leader M5s, Luigi Di Maio, and the Undersecretary of the Presidency, Riccardo Fraccaro, to close the team of undersecretaries pentastellati.
A tug of war is underway between M5s and Pd on two heavy delegations of the Ministry of Development: Telecommunications and Energy, which had kept Di Maio in the old government. For the Tlc, the Dems would like Antonello Giacomelli (who could also lead the Agcom) and for Energy the Lazio councilor Gian Paolo Manzella, an innovation expert. But the five stars claim for themselves both proxies: the Energy would like Dario Tamburrano, the TLC should keep them Patuanelli. The agreement - some say - could be Energy at the PD and TLC at the M5s, while Publishing would go to the Democratic Party. The Undersecretary for Publishing is headed by the Presidency of the Council, so it would be a Dem presence at Palazzo Chigi: this is also the reason why the name of the coordinator of the secretariat, Andrea Martella, circulates as the most quoted name. On the delegation of the Presidency of the Council - but the official sources deny - a tug of war between the M5s and the premier would be in progress until the end. However, Conte seems determined to keep the services delegated, while the undersecretary to the presidency Riccardo Fraccaro, very close to Di Maio, should get the Reforms (Renzi would like it for Roberto Cociancich).
The head of the M5s, which at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs brings together the economic managers to give the signal that it will not abdicate the maneuver to the Democratic Party (with a table that many people remember as reunited with Salvini), has been facing "riots" in the Movement for days. And in the evening he gives a signal to his followers to let them know that he intends to accelerate the "new structure" of the Movement by appointing facilitators. Perhaps it will also be a place of compensation for disappointed ambitions. The M5s should have between 22 and 23 undersecretaries, and the method of naming roses indicated by the commissions would have led to large quarrels, such as the Esteri (the contenders M5s would be Di Stefano, Del Re, Lucidi and Pacifico), where the senators deserted the reunion. The tug of war for the economy should resolve with the nomination of Laura Castelli and Stefano Buffagni (and the disappointment of Alessio Villarosa). Former minister Elisabetta Trenta could become deputy interior minister and Barbara Lezzi would be willing to return as an undersecretary in the ministry she led. Then we mention Giancarlo Cancelleri to Transports, Lucia Azzolina to the Regions, Andrea Giarrizzo or Luca Carabetta to Innovation.
Rossella Muroni is on pole for Leu, but the party asks at least for another undersecretary. In the Democratic Party the mix should bring to the government ex-deputies (the name of Beppe Fioroni was running but he would have refused) and aldermen (Lorenza Bonaccorsi is also mentioned by Lazio). The team would be basically closed, but the Renzians, who would have four names in all (two to Renzi, two to reformist base) would be asking for more. Maurizio Martina, as deputy minister, could return to the government, and Debora Serracchiani is also mentioned for her area. For the Mef, Antonio Misiani and Luigi Marattin or Pier Paolo Baretta are mentioned. And again: Marina Sereni, Bruno Astorre, Simona Malpezzi, Anna Ascani, Chiara Braga, Patrizia Prestipino at Sport.