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January 26, 2021 A stable majority and a cohesive government. These will be the parameters with which Sergio Mattarella will evaluate the steps that will have to follow at the resignation of Giuseppe Conte. The premier announced the decision to the Council of Ministers, convened this morning at 9, and goes up to the Quirinale to formally resign in the hands of the President of the Republic. After more than 500 days, the Conte II government has thus come to an end. "I thank the entire government team, every single minister, for every day of these months together," he said on the CDM. Support and compactness ", expressed the heads of delegation of the majority forces, Alfonso Bonafede (M5S), Dario Franceschini (Pd) and Roberto Speranza (Leu). 

Conte's choice comes after the failure of the attempt to 'enlarge the majority', with the UDC and Forza Italia calling themselves out of any hypothesis of support for Conte II, in addition to the almost certainty of a negative vote in the Senate on the report of the Keeper of the Seals Alfonso Bonafede initially scheduled for next Thursday and now postponed.

The scenarios of the crisis

A delicate government

crisis

opens up.

From this moment on, various scenarios are in place that the Head of State will have to evaluate, who will probably start lightning consultations with all the political forces: the hypotheses, from re-appointment to the outgoing premier for a "ter", as Pd, M5s and Leu, up to the extreme solution of the dissolution of the Chambers.

Hypothesis denied by all, but inevitable in the event that any parliamentary agreement should fail.   

Certainly Mattarella wants the uncertainties to clear quickly, but the poll by the groups of the Chamber and Senate is considered essential also out of respect for Parliament.

The positions of IV and the centrists remain to be clarified, and what will be the decisive moves of Matteo Renzi.

The calendar of the consultations is not yet known but the Head of State is expected to begin listening to political forces starting tomorrow afternoon after the ceremony for the Memorial Day in the morning.

The Five Star Movement defines the transition to a Count ter as "inevitable" and "the only outcome of this nefarious crisis".

"A necessary step - continues a note of the pentastellated group leaders - to the enlargement of the majority". The Democratic Party also opens to a new government still led by the "advocate of the Italians".

Secretary Zingaretti wrote on Twitter: "With Conte for a new government that is clearly pro-European and supported by a broad parliamentary base, which guarantees credibility and stability to face the great challenges that Italy faces".

The intentions of the center-right

Feverish hours therefore, especially within the coalition that was the majority, but troubled waters also in the center-right.

The coalition appears divided between those who, like Fdi, see no alternative to voting and those, like Fi, who do not exclude a government of national unity.

In the hottest hours, Silvio Berlusconi intervenes directly and first denies "any negotiation for any support to the government he appoints".

As if to say, goodbye 'responsible'.

He then proposes a way out: "The main road is only one: to leave the political wisdom and institutional authority of the Head of State to indicate the solution of the crisis, through a new government that represents the substantial unity of the country in a moment of emergency or give the floor back to the Italians ".

The secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, instead asks that "the games of the Palace" be stopped and "the word to the people" be given back to having a Parliament and a government "for five serious and legitimate years, chosen by the Italians".

Even the President of FdI, Giorgia Meloni on the attack: "Italy does not deserve this crap".   

In the afternoon a summit is planned between Salvini, Meloni, Berlusconi in connection from Provence, the UDC centrists and Cambiamo di Toti.

"We need a government of public health but it is not in line with the Count ter, we will not be crowded with this majority", assures the Ligurian governor.

Guerini: "We need a new pact open also to Iv"

The Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini, in an interview with Repubblica argues that to get out of the crisis a new political pact of legislature is also needed with Italia Viva.

"Now around Conte, an essential figure of balance between the forces that have supported the government up to now - says the owner of the Defense - let the construction of a political and parliamentary majority start".

A coalition "which could even be stronger because it is also extended to include figures and forces that refer to a clear pro-European horizon that were previously excluded", he adds, to be achieved "in a very short time. And all demonstrate, with conclusive facts rather than with the words, of really wanting to commit ".

Italia Viva, remembers Guerini, "has the responsibility of having caused an inexplicable crisis whose political reasons escape most", while the Democratic Party "has shown and continues to demonstrate responsibility in this situation".

But "this is not the time for tactics. Nor for resentment or personalism".

Also for the new possible executive "I consider the figure of Conte essential. - he specifies -. We cannot waste this decisive opportunity for the country when we get from Europe, also for the effective work done by Conte and the whole government, an extraordinary framework of resources to be used on the environmental and digital transition, on work, on health, on training. We cannot afford to fail ".

We need to face "the reality of a country that is suffering the social and economic consequences of the pandemic. Of a challenge with the virus yet to be won. Of a vaccination campaign never seen in history. Of an impressive framework of European resources that must be well spent" .