“We will not vote on the motion of no confidence in Daniela Santanchè”. Enrico Borghi speaks

“We will not vote on the motion of no confidence in Daniela Santanchè. Conte and Schlein are wrong”. So says Enrico Borghi, newly elected leader of the Third Pole in the Senate. “I really think that presenting a no-confidence motion now is a mistake,” the senator told Il Foglio. “In fact, cracks seem to be emerging within the majority. Voting no confidence in Minister Santanché now would only have the effect of compacting Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni. So, I repeat, we will not vote no confidence”. But do Action and Italia viva agree on this choice, or will there be more distinctions, as in the past, between the two parties that make up the Third Pole? “I have already called a group meeting for Tuesday and that will be the occasion in which we will build a common position. I don’t think that Carlo Calenda, if this is your question, is willing to vote ‘yes’ to the motion of no confidence. So I am convinced that on Tuesday, at the group meeting, all components of the Third Pole will find a shared opinion”. The analysis of the Third Pole, therefore, is that the vote against Santanché would be an own goal by the opposition? “For the first time there are creaks in the government structure,” says Borghi. “We have the feeling that Berlusconi’s disappearance has caused the loss of a buffer capable of cushioning the friction between Salvini and Meloni and that there are tensions in the majority. We should take advantage of it. Don’t give them the possibility, with one vote, to rediscover reasons for unity”. So was the M5 wrong in asking for a motion of no confidence against Santanché? “It wouldn’t be the first time that Giuseppe Conte has assisted Giorgia Meloni. In fact, I consider the presentation of a motion of this type to be tactically a mistake “. And this also applies to Elly Schlein’s Pd who immediately joined the M5s. But what then is the right strategy, according to Borghi and according to the Third Pole? “We do not ask for the resignation of a minister reached by a notice of guarantee. The issue is not judicial, but it is political. It is the Prime Minister who must give an answer in the light of the developments that have emerged in the Santanchè case. We ask, and will ask, this of Meloni: do you think Santanché is or is not in a position to fulfill his ministerial functions? We ask that the Prime Minister assume full responsibility for this situation. And we ask for it in Parliament”.