Government, the premier at the Quirinale: the possible moves after the vote of confidence

• The Senate votes for confidence in the government with 156 votes in favor, 140 against and 16 abstentions

• Renzi: "An incomprehensible crisis? No, we need a stronger government"

• Government, center-right: "As a cynical Conte transformism operation, we at work as an alternative"

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January 20, 2021 Giuseppe Conte seeks the relaunch of his government. The day after having received a skimpy trust in the Senate, the premier knows that the road to continue is obligatory: to widen the majority to guarantee his government a smoother navigation after the farewell of Italy alive. "Now the goal is to make this majority even more solid" he had hot tweeted immediately after the Palazzo Madama vote.

And the Democratic Party presses him precisely on this.

"We need to turn the page, strengthen and expand the parliamentary strength of this government," said Nicola Zingaretti in the morning.

For this reason, the Prime Minister has on his agenda for today both a summit with the parties that support him and an interview with the Head of State.

Already in his speech, the premier had anticipated some of his moves: a reshuffle of the team of ministers, the search for other deputies and senators who would trust the government, the arrival in the majority of a group of pro-Europeans and a structured center.

A new legislative pact.

But the time to achieve all these objectives is short: the 'truce' that the Chambers will give to the executive will last a few days, the time to launch the budget variance, already today, and the new refreshment dl.

Then the opposition will return to office, as it did immediately after the vote, asking for a return to the polls and appealing to the President of the Republic. 

Confrontation with the majority

Furthermore, even from the majority itself, a request for strengthening comes.

Starting right from the dem.

"The Democratic Party has played an important role. Enough controversy, let's roll up our sleeves because Italy cannot wait" said Zingaretti.

We have certainly "avoided the leap in the dark" but now it is necessary to "go back to dealing with the problems of the Italians and build a political perspective".

The dem secretary also responds to the controversies triggered by the opposition: "The outcome of the votes of confidence in the Chamber and the Senate confirms that there was no other government hypothesis that could take more votes in the parliamentary passage".

And the head of delegation Pd Dario Franceschini makes explicit the commitment that Conte faces: "A government is strong if it can count on at least 170 senators. So now we have to work to strengthen it" and to do so we need "a mission, a political design";

for this reason "we offered to widen the majority to all moderates who are with great unease in an alliance led by Salvini and Meloni, to support a pro-European line and approve a proportional law that frees the country from forced alliances. For Forza Italia it is a occasion ".

And yesterday two senators, Rossi and Causin, broke away from the blue group to say yes to Conte.   

Whether enlargement should also affect Iv is an open topic.

The M5s closes the door but the leader of the Pd Andrea Marcucci does not cut the bridges: "As a young deputy of the Liberal Party one of the first things I understood at Montecitorio is that in politics you never say the word".

Bellanova: "Votes in the Senate collected, little solidity"

"The votes taken by Conte? They seem small to me. To think that I have won with 156 votes, some of which collected with barely qualifying negotiations and three senators for life. they seem not very solid ".

The senator of Italy Viva Teresa Bellanova said to "The Breakfast Club" on Radio Capital. "We raised problems concerning Italy, on those issues we left an open door to Conte and to the majority parties - added Bellanova explaining the choice of Italia Viva to abstain -. If instead of addressing the issues we are concerned with putting out a reformist force such as Italia viva, then it means that politics has reached very low levels. I do not feel I am responsible for the crisis, I am I was only responsible to the country. When I realized that I could no longer do my job, I resigned. I would have stayed behind to do upholstery. Being a minister brings honors and burdens, when it became only an honor without being able to engrave I understood that was no longer my place. Was this the wrong time to resign? If not now is the time to set policies for the future, when is it? When we have used up all the funds of the Reco

very to distribute some warm panicelli? ". Finally, on the budget gap, Bellanova confirmed the favorable vote:" As we have already said, we will not block interventions on people and businesses.

But this is to keep patching.

A relaunch strategy must be set up.

Italia viva is ready to support every effort to relaunch Italy.

I would like people to ask what program the trust was requested yesterday.

Who voted to trust the government, do you know how the resources will be distributed? ".

Polverini will join the Democratic Center

Renata Polverini, the former Forza Italia deputy who voted for confidence in the Conte government, is about to join the Democratic Center, the training of Bruno Tabacci. Membership of the mixed group component will be announced shortly.

Landini: "the government should call the social partners immediately"

"The passage after this difficult crisis and in compliance with the decisions of the parliament is that today the builders must be sought in the country. I expect the government to convene the social partners this morning and start the work that in this month the discussion of the crisis has blocked ", starting" from the discussion of merit on the Recovery plan ".

Thus the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, at Agorà on Rai3.

"Now we have to go from thanks to facts", he added.