Maneuver and raves, Meloni’s race between trust and the guillotine

Two trusts. Today in the House on the rave decree, already approved by the Senate amid much controversy, to be converted into law by December 30, under penalty of forfeiture. Tomorrow at 12 in the Senate on the maneuver after the passage to Deputies on Christmas Eve.

So the government is running Melons. Out of necessity, but also to follow self-imposed goals. It is in fact to avoid the provisional exercise, a disgrace and a potential disaster on the markets, a method that has never occurred since 1988, that it was decided to push for the budget law. But the urgency is also the daughter of less contingent desires, such as the never declared goal of arriving before three governments of the last legislature – in 2018, 2020 and 2021 – which got the maneuver approved on December 30th. Arriving even before the Draghi government therefore, with the extenuating circumstance of having sworn in no more than two months earlier – on 22 October last.

“It was a race against time”, declared the prime minister just a month ago at the general assembly of Confindustria Veneto Est. “But the trajectory was as clear as possible”, he added. A blitz, just slowed down by the opposition that occupied the benches of the Senate Budget Commission yesterday, preventing the resumption of work and postponing the final ok. Just a stumbling block, which will bring confidence to the Senate in the very minutes of the premier’s end-of-year conference.

The urgency on the rave decree is less understandable, which will still have to resist the declared obstructionism of the oppositions ready to present dozens of agendas to extend the time until 30 December. The call for confidence will begin today at 17.25 and the majority could resort to the last resort of the ‘guillotine’, used by the then Speaker of the Chamber Laura Boldrini in January 2014 on the Imu-Bankitalia decree. A meeting of the group leaders convened at 2.30 pm will be decisive.