Mr. Salvini’s frivolous political strategy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, this political coalition between an extreme right-wing nationalist\nparty (Northern League) and a patchwork party of populists, greens and\ninternet-based politicians (Five Stars Movement (M5S)) lasted much longer than\nexpected because of the different mentality of the parties supporting the\ndeported Italian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The end of the mandate of the former government of Giuseppe Conti is the\nfamous until yesterday’s Minister of the Interior and Vice-President of this\ngovernment, Mr. Mateo Salvini. On August 8, Mr. Salvini filed a motion of\ncensure against the government in which he was the main pillar in order to\nprovoke elections using his confessed popularity to win the forthcoming elections\nand become the new Prime Minister of Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Salvini’s decisions on elections were not of a short-term nature, but the result proves that they were based on long-lasting planning. For fourteen consecutive months, and in particular from last year’s\nelections that led to the formation of the previous government, Mr. Salvini,\nwith his anti-systemic discourse on the demands of Brussels for budgetary\ndiscipline in combination with his anti-immigration rhetoric, he managed to\nreduce the electoral rates of his government partner of the Five-Star Movement\nfrom 37% to 17% in the May European elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the European elections operated as exit polls for the planning of\nMr. Salvini, giving him the impetus to make a motion of censure against the\ngovernment which he also participated in order to achieve his ambitious plans\nfor the conquest of the Italian Prime Minister position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the subsequent unforeseen political developments have thwarted Mr.\nSalvini’s planning by proving that in politics nothing is certain. This\nreversal was done with the call made by the Five Stars Movement Secretary to\nthe Secretary of the Democratic Party investigating a possible political alliance\nto rescue the situation, avoiding the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result of this ingenious and unexpected political tactic has had tragic-comedic results in the subsequent political behaviour of Mr. Salvini who before the arrival of outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Presidential palace in order to submit his resignation withdrew the motion of censure against the government while offering Prime Minister\u2019s position to the head of Five Stars Movement trying desperately in this way to save the shattered political alliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Political marriage of interest in an Italian manner<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These two parties, namely the Five-Star Movement (M5S) and the Democratic Party, are comfortably bringing together a Parliamentary majority. There are certainly\ndifferences as to how one party sees the other, regarding the policies for\ndealing with the migration problem and the new annual state budget, but there\nare many similarities between those that can be bridged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, the EU is favourably attached to such a political coalition\nthan to the ‘annoying’ Mr. Salvini, who is constantly asking for tax cuts,\nendangering the implementation of the Italian state budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first informal partnership between the (M5S) and the Democratic Party was in the European Parliament when (M5S) preferred to join the Democratic Party by voting for the new President of the Commission, Mrs. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second flesh-and-bone coalition was achieved yesterday with the formal agreement between them for the formation of a government under the most renewed Prime Minister of Mr. Giuseppe Conte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Surely, the Northern League will be more “dangerous” in its\nargumentation to the opposition based on anti-immigrant policies, brave tax\ncuts, refusal to increase the age limit for an employee to retire and using scandal\nbased political arguments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Its purpose will be to extract as much as possible a percentage of protest\nvotes from the forthcoming elections whenever they are made. But what the\nNorthern League will do is of no importance because Italy must be ruled to vote\nfor the new budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A prolonged election period would put in great unreliability the new state\nbudget that will be voted at the end of the year, creating further concerns\ngiven that the new global recession is just around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the economic decline of the Italian economy persists. After so many\nelectoral competitions which gave many governments, no successful plans have\nbeen implemented to halt the lost competitiveness of the Italian economy. The\nwhole of Europe hopes that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte can succeed in his\nrenewed work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Italy’s economic situation is critical and is, by extension, critical of\nthe Eurozone as well. The Italian government’s debt exceeds 130% of its GDP,\ncausing chills of icy sweat on the backs of the economic designers of Italy and\nBrussels respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The resulting new government will be confronted with decisions on cuts of\n\u20ac23 billion to be consistent with the state budget deficit limits set out in\nthe Maastricht Treaty. However, these measures are not even effective enough to\nput the Italian economy out of the swamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The necessary measures to increase the competitiveness of the Italian\neconomy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Italian central government’s expenditure must be drastically reduced\nover a three-year horizon and reach the ceiling of 15% of GDP annually with 4%\nof GDP being the total payroll cost of the Italian state’s civil servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/320px-Sergio_Mattarella_and_Giuseppe_Conte.jpg\")
Photo by Author: Office of Presidency of the Italian Republic,
Source: Il Presidente della Republica Sergio Matarrella con il Prof. Giuseppe Conte
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