The Santanchè mess (and Visibilia) shows that the majority has a problem

The government has fallen for it again. Behind an agenda, signed by the parent company Pd in ​​the Chamber Clare Gribaudo (and presented in the Chamber by his colleague Arturo Scotto), apparently harmless, which undertook to sanction those who fraudulently used the funds of the “Covid extraordinary fund”, the dem had slyly added an explicit quotation from Visibilia among the premises, the company attributable to Minister Santanchè ended up at the center of a Report investigation and on which the Milan court will express its opinion in July.

Aware or not, the government, in this case represented by the Deputy Minister of Labor of Fratelli d’Italia – the same party as Santanchè – Maria Theresa Belluccigave a favorable opinion on the document. The agenda was thus approved (although someone, precisely among the majority parties, perhaps sniffing the slip, then abstained or expressed a contrary opinion), thus unleashing the opposition, with Clare Braga, group leader in the Chamber of Dems, who comments: “They have already thought of disheartening the minister”. And at the same time arousing considerable embarrassment in the majority, who minimized speaking of a “mistake” and in any case reconfirmed their full trust in the owner of Tourism.

It’s just not the first time the government has stumbled into easily avoidable mishaps. This time too, the trap could have been circumvented by deleting the offending premise and still accepting the odg. So much so that someone, unable to explain such an oversight and strengthened by the suspicions fueled in the past weeks by some Northern League voices, immediately glimpsed conspiracies.

The problem, as mentioned, is the frequency with which such episodes recur. The most striking was probably the lack of confidence in the Def in April, due to the absence of around fifty MPs. But the Lotito affair could also be taken, when the majority went down in the Budget Committee on the labor decree due to the absence of two Forza Italia MPs: Lotito, in fact, and Dario Damiani. Or finally, the absence of the majority in the Foreign Affairs Committee on the basic text proposed by the Democratic Party for the ratification of the Mes. All events in which more or less sensational slips add up to plots and suspicions. Pursuing the premier on her already difficult journey to Brussels.