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19 October 2020

Giuseppe Conte's 'no' to the Mes opens a chasm in the government, with the Democratic Party and Italia Viva harshly criticizing the premier and M5s, with a good part of the opposition, praising him.

The indicator that the tension within the executive has reached its peak is represented by the tones of the Pd secretary, usually inclined to dialogue with the prime minister, for whom this is not an issue that can be dismissed "with a joke. Press conference".

But Zingaretti does not stop at this and adds in an annotation that Conte would do better to "bet on the solidarity of all the political forces of the majority" avoiding "political controversies".

The risk of splitting the majority is also evoked by the vice president of the Democratic Party, Deborah Serracchiani: "The Prime Minister has the task of maintaining the 'unity of political direction' of the Government, taking into account the positions of the majority and not only reporting that of a party ", he warns.

On the merits, the line of the dem is that of investing the Chambers of every decision on this issue.

"The issue of recourse to the Mes must be addressed in the political forums that are the majority and Parliament. At this moment we do not need discussions or hasty assessments that stiffen positions", explains Anna Rossomando, senator and vice president of the Pd at Palazzo Madama.

A line shared by Italia Viva: "The place to discuss what to do with the Mes is Parliament and that political table between the majority forces that Matteo Renzi and Italia Viva have been asking insistently for a few weeks, not a press conference", explains Luciano Nobili .

The deputy minister of health, Pierpaolo Sileri, also intervenes to make the climate heavier: "Right now the risk of taking the Mes is much higher than the risk of not taking it", he explained.

Words that sound in the ears of the leaders of the majority, and in particular of the dem, as an attempt to delegitimize the parliament which, in the final instance, would have to decide on the use of the European Stability Mechanism.

"Parliament has given a mandate to the government, of which he belongs, to prepare a plan to strengthen the national health network, at the basis of which there is the possibility of using the Mes", remembers the deputy of the presidency of the Pd group at Camera, Enrico Borghi: "Putting a questionable conclusion to this work, the result of a partisan political assessment, as does the deputy minister Sileri, means exchanging the institutions for emanations of one's own party and means not knowing how to express a position of the entire coalition as it should make every member of the executive ".

From the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi is ready to bet that "by saying no to the MES Prime Minister Conte will make Meloni and Salvini happy, but he will disappoint hundreds of mayors and a large part of his majority".

Shortly after the words of the leader of Italia Viva, the note of Giorgia Meloni arrives on time, applauding the premier and that of the mayor of Bari and president Anci, Antonio Decaro, who criticizes his choice.

"If we decided to take loans from the ESM, the markets would see us as plagued", explains Meloni.

"For me, those resources must be used because they are resources that are used to make progress in our health, especially in local health. I would take them immediately", replies Decaro.

The only ones in the majority to support Conte in his choice are the Five Stars, which even appear compacted on the subject, after the internal tensions of recent weeks: "The Mes, like any credit line, does not provide for money given away and savings on interest rates would be truly marginal. So we can only share the words expressed yesterday by President Conte regarding the hypothesis of activation of the Save States fund ", reads a note from the Five Stars in the Chamber's European Policies Committee which accompanies the satisfaction of Alessandro Di Battista, for some time on a critical line with respect to the M5s majority: "Yesterday, the prime minister definitively liquidated the MES issue".