The Five-star movement and the social Democrats are in agreement. Now, Italy’s President must still agree. The rights Lega is rooked. Provisionally, says Bernd Riegert.
Disappointed, but be patient: The right-wing party leader Salvini says he has time, the new coalition to sit through
The good news from Rome: The government crisis that have called the Newspapers in Italy as “the craziest of all time”, is about to be completed. The social Democrats and the populist Five star have gotten together to prevent new elections and the possible takeover of power by the radical right-wing Northern League chief Matteo Salvini. With the Failure of the previous populist coalition in Italy is proof that such only on Stammtisch slogans and absurd promise-based covenants can govern. The populist currents in Europe has received a severe blow. In Hungary and Poland, govern the rights of the populists, however. In Greece, a left-wing populist party four years in Power, was voted out of office recently. In Austria, the right-wing government is a failure at the audacity of the populists.
Movement disenchanted
Europe Correspondent Bernd Riegert
The populist Five star movement, which was started as an “Anti-party” of the enfant terrible, has joined after not even one and a half years in Power, to the Establishment in. The coalition with the social Democrats get the Five stars on the bottom of the facts of a parliamentary democracy. Five-star Chairman Luigi Di Maio is not this coalition out of Conviction, but to save their own skin, and the Survival of its chaotic force. Di Maio would have been able to in the case of new elections according to the rules of his party is no longer a mandate to apply. In the case of a ballot, the stars would fall back to third place in the polls. At the Moment they are in the Parliament, nor the strongest force. In the high-stakes game for Power, and when you Haggle the Post Luigi Di Maio is also not more different or better than the other party leaders. Welcome to the club. Curious one may be, whether the Basis of the movement is part of this turning away from populism. A vote on the Internet, the star is a hurdle that needs to take the new coalition in the coming days, still is.
Salvini can wait
The bad news from Rome: Matteo Salvini, the tough refugee policies and the right radical sayings, the heart of the majority of voters, according to surveys, is for the time being beaten, but he is not defeated. The radical right-wing “Capitano” for me, and new elections quickly and had not expected that there would be a left-wing coalition, but he has the time. Most political observers in Italy believe that the purpose of the Alliance out of Five stars and social Democrats, who are divided in also, will not hold for long. Maybe a half, a maximum of one year. And then elections would probably be inevitable. As long Salvini can go in total Opposition and do what he can to operate as well: election campaign. In the polls he is still in the front.
Breathing space for the EU and Maritime search and rescue?
In the short term at least, Europe can breathe a sigh of relief: With the new government, it should be possible to agree on a more sensible fiscal policy with Italy. The EU can seek to ensure that the new interior Minister opens Italian ports for at sea rescued migrants, and a distribution mechanism to other EU countries, agrees. Salvini had been bricked, because he didn’t have the exaggerated “migration crisis” as an Election issue, to arrogate to himself as a strong leader. The new coalition government in Rome is likely to be slightly more Europe-friendly, however, likely to be in office for the remaining non-party Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte is not just an EU friend. Maybe he is learning in his second term.