Three hundred and twenty-one votes in favor. Conte gets a full confidence, with six votes over the absolute majority of 315, in the first test for the government's survival in the Chamber.
Five former M5S deputies voted yes, the dissident still 5S Andrea Colletti and the blue Renata Polverini, who then announced immediately after that she had decided to leave Berlusconi's party. Twenty-seven abstentions, 259 votes against. The focus is now on the Senate where the game is more difficult: reaching 161 is currently considered a mirage. Italia Viva confirms its choice to abstain but the majority will only need one more vote from the opposition to win this round, then the page will be turned and it will all be written.
“Help us start again,” says Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the Chamber of Montecitorio, launching an appeal to those “willing” people who could save the government by giving it the stability needed to move forward, promising to commit to a new electoral law in a proportional sense. The time “is serious” and to continue on the path of fighting Covid and reforms now we need to “turn the page.” Which is also what the Democratic Party is clearly asking of him. With a folder under his arm, Conte begins the long day at Palazzo Chigi aware of finding himself in “a difficult situation” but also assuring that he has confidence in “the parliamentarians and the country.”
The appointment with the Chamber of Montecitorio, live on television, is for 12 and in fifty-five minutes the Prime Minister "clearly" reveals his project. He calls those parliamentarians he addresses "willing" and not responsible, inviting them to share the piece of the road that remains and which sees on the table the management of over 200 billion with the Recovery plan, and on which the Chambers will have the right to speak. "Help us", he repeats three times speaking to the hemicycle and asking for "clear support" from the liberals, populars and socialists. Far from the tone of the invective he made against Matteo Salvini in August 2019, the Prime Minister never mentions Renzi but it is him who he has in mind when he speaks of "discomposed attacks". The crisis opened by Iv appears to him without any "foundation" and rewinding the tape is now impossible, he warns. In the country, he says, "there is profound dismay".
Article published on 18 January 2021 - 21:11
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