still duel on Ronzulli. And on Justice Berlusconi plays the Casellati-Corriere.it card

Officially they met because all three, for personal and work reasons, were in Milan. A meeting of an hour and a half, however, interlocutory, pending the decisive one to be held on Tuesday or Wednesday, before the votes for the presidents of the chambers that begin on Thursday.. Unofficially, the summit between Meloni, Berlusconi and Salvini yesterday in Arcore was a necessary appointment, given that the distances between the allies were many, strong disagreements and the premier in pectore had a very clear message to send.

If and when the head of state gives me the job, I’ll be ready a minute later to introduce my government team. Do not waste any more time in negotiations, quarrels, push and pull for posts, because the country is in trouble and would not forgive us, we must show seriousness. The first, that he will not accept a government to the downside, with names that are not up to par. Never do things I don’t like.

A full-blown warning, in a significant summit also in attendance: Meloni with Lollobrigida and La Russa, Salvini with Calderoli and Berlusconi with Barachini. Nothing casual, they think in FdI: the leader of the League wanted Calderoli to be present at the discussion on the presidencies of the Chambers, aspiring to Palazzo Madama, the Knight protected Licia Ronzulli, on which a very tough tug-of-war with the future premier is taking place.

Around these names partly turned the top. Meloni insisted on the need for his Ignazio La Russa to be elected to the Senate: as per previous ones of the center-right governments (Berlusconi with Pera and with Schifani), premier and second office of the state can belong to the same party. The League would instead hold the presidency of the Chamber (for Molinari), on the basis of a scheme that Meloni has in mind: 5 ministries in FI and 5 in Salvini, who, due to having a greater number of parliamentarians, will also be able to lead a branch of Parliament.

In truth, a certain discontent filters through the League both because a very powerful FdI chain would be established at the top – with premier, undersecretary to the presidency of the Council and president of the Senate – and because Meloni is adopting the Draghi method in the formation of the government. In other words, she wants to decide who to appoint of our representatives and where. And this is because, emerged at the top, the leader has collected the requests of the allies but has not given any assurances on the destination of each. And he keeps a few face down cards: in the Economy, key ministry, he still focuses on a technician and he would have three from whom he expects answers ad horas. But if the response is unsatisfactory, he thinks of Giorgetti as head of the Mef. And that would become the leading ministry of the League, with a series of consequences also on the role of Salvini, who in any case did not make any specific requests per se.

But if the League insists on having Infrastructures, Regions and Autonomy, Agriculture and the Interior and does not want to take on technicians, the most heated clashes have been with FI. In fact, Berlusconi has made it clear that for him the presence of Ronzulli is fundamental, especially if there is Tajani in the executive, and for her he asked for either Healthcare or Infrastructure or Agriculture. Dicasteries for which she feels ready: If Di Maio was foreign minister, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be up to it, her thought. Meloni explained that he does not want to enter the internal balance of the parties, he still wants to entrust a significant ministry to Tajani (Foreign Affairs or Defense), but does not accept diktat. It means that for the loyal Knight Difficult she can grant more than a second-tier ministry. But Berlusconi pulled out another card: he proposed the president of the Senate Casellati for Justice. A name on which Meloni has not vetoed: It can be a solution, let’s see. For Nordio I can think of another assignment. But it is not easy for the request to go through, if it is true that there are those in the center-right who point out that under consideration by the Quirinale there would be two boxes at risk of conflict of interest: a Keeper of the Seals who dealt with Berlusconi’s trials, as well as a blue head of Economic Development, department that deals with frequencies and tiv.