To distrust Santanchè or not? So the oppositions try to move together

“I have nothing to hide, I will explain point by point”. Daniela Santanche flaunts tranquility, but the case uncovered by the program Reports on the management of two companies attributable to the current top Tourism agitates the majority. After the insistent request to report to Parliament by the opposition and not only (some voices have also been raised from the ranks of the League and Forza Italia), Santanché says he “can’t wait to be on the benches of the Senate”. It will probably happen next week, having seen the Roman bridge – and the inevitable empty chairs – between Thursday and Friday. The case, beyond the judicial dimension, has in all respects become a political weapon: that “chess game with the government” has begun, as defined by the pd group leader Francesco Bocciato corner the minister and, in this way, hit the executive.

The ambition on the part of the dem is to rally the opposition around the “Santanché case”. The requests for resignation, on the other hand, did not come only from members of the Democratic Party: the leader of Action also joined the chorus, Charles Calenda (“If you do not give sufficient explanations, you must resign”), with Joseph Conte which states how “other ministers have resigned for less”.

We then study the next steps to take: the first will be the query of Antonio Misiani, dem manager for economic development. But the move on which the center-left is racking its brains is the possibility of presenting a motion of no confidence in the owner of Tourism: a possible “checkmate”, with the risk, however, of reuniting the majority around the minister, thus ruining the work of shoring up done so far. The match has begun.