President Mattarella has approved the Cabinet of left-wing populists and social Democrats. On Thursday it’s supposed to be sworn in. The question remains, how long will the new purpose-holding coalition. From Rome Bernd Riegert.
President Sergio Mattarella (l.) wished the Prime Giuseppe Conte (R) “lot of fun” at work
A few weeks ago, nobody in Italy would have given a damn about a coalition between the self-declared Anti-party Five-star movement and the established social Democrats “Partito Democratico”. And yet President Sergio mattarella has approved the marriage of the two actually warring parties, after talks with non-party Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, in order to prevent, in his view, worse. Mattarella could not resist a brief appearance before the press with a Smile and the new team: “Happy to Work wish!” On Thursday, he will swear in the new Minister: ten from the Five-star movement, nine of the social Democrats. Then trust vote in Parliament to follow.
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Italy’s President wishes “good luck”
United against Salvini
Without a new government, the state would have to start presidential elections, which would have won most likely to be the former Minister of the interior Matteo Salvini, head of the right-wing Lega,. He leads in the opinion polls. That’s exactly why I told him that it had terminated the coalition with the populists of the Five stars in the August abruptly. However, he speculated. Elections it is now, if at all, only in the next year. “The majority of Italians see the new government as an Anti-Salvini-coalition. That’s 90 percent of an Anti-Salvini-coalition,” said political scientist Giovanni Orsina of the LUISS University in Rome, the German wave. “Only ten percent of the content there is Compliance with the parties.”
Political scientist Orsina: “A pure Anti-Salvini-Koaltion will not survive long”
Northern League chief Salvini has already switched to the election campaign and the leader of the opposition. In a Facebook presence, he said it was ridiculous that the 60,000 members of the Five stars have endorsed the new government by online voting, but 60 million Italians are likely to choose. Politics expert Giovanni Orsina assumes that Salvini values his good survey for a while can keep. “Salvini has won for certain reasons, and those reasons are still there,” says Orsina. “The government must show that it takes people’s Concerns seriously, then Salvini’s could shrink values. It is not just about opinion polls, but we will soon have real elections in the regions of Umbria and Emilia Romania. The traditionally left-wing regions. If the Right win because this time, it is for the new government closely.”
More editions of the same problems
Five stars and social Democrats want to spend more money and the economy, investment and social benefits to boost. The citizens ‘ money for low-Income and a minimum pension part of it. In a few weeks, the new Finance Minister Roberto Gualtieri must be a Deputy, a social-democratic Europe, a draft budget for 2020 submit that meets the strict criteria of the European Union.
How the new expenditure is to be financed, is still unclear. The EU has been the fact that Italy is reducing its high debt and not expanding. But Gualtieri already receiving advance praise from Brussels: The German MEP Sven Giegold (Green) sings the praises of Gualtieri, as a committed European and campaigner for deeper Euro-Zone. Policy-Professor Orsina expects the EU to give the Commission and the Euro-Zone, Italy is now more fiscal space is: “will This government like the EU and you will be helped by the Europeans, also. You will look a bit more relaxed in Italy than you would have done in the case of a Salvini-government.” Nevertheless, the new government is going to have problems, their announcements also in practice.
Hope for Italy and the EU? The MEP Gualtieri has to set up as the new Finance Minister of Italy household
Especially, it is questionable how long she has at all the time. As long as the 66. Post-war government holds together in Italy, will be discussed in the Italian media extensively. More than a year, you only give a few. The contrasts between the partners: “of Course you want to stay together for so long as possible. But there are already lots of internal tensions,” says Orsina. A prediction was impossible.
Loosening of the landing prohibition for rescue ships?
The social Democrats have prevailed in the new coalition, that the harsh rhetoric of the previous interior Minister, but is mitigated against refugees and migrants. In its place, the party enters administration officer Luciana Lamorgese. Whether Italy will open its ports for rescue ships of foreign organizations, however, is still unclear. In any case, the new government consists of a distribution of the rescued at sea of refugees on the rest of the EU.
Whether or not it will be soon back a government-organized rescue in the framework of the EU-Mission “Sophia”, has to be in the EU yet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had called for. Also, the German interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to agree with Italy, together with a distribution mechanism for asylum seekers. Political scientist Orsina doubt, however, whether the tough migration policy change in Italy, really: “The majority of Italians like the closed ports. This policy of Salvini was very popular. To change this rate, could damage the Reputation of the government in the case of the Italians hard. I expect, therefore, that the rhetoric changes, but not a practical policy.”
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