Government, it’s a two-way race for the Senate: final sprint between La Russa and Calderoli

In the Senate, 104 are enough to immediately elect the new president, so it is not excluded that on Thursday there will be white smoke if the agreement in the center-right is defined. Roberto Calderoli’s presence at the coalition’s negotiating table was interpreted in the alliance as a sign that the party in via Bellerio is thinking about the current vice president of Palazzo Madama for the post-Casellati period. After all, Matteo Salvini presented the Lega hypothesis, but Fratelli d’Italia bets on Ignazio La Russa. In short, a chair for two, but at the moment the former defense minister is in pole position, even if the deal is yet to be closed.

This morning at the FDI House of Representatives, the issue was not addressed, but the reasoning, it is reported, is that closing Thursday in the Senate would be a sign of compactness. At this point, the Chamber could play an exponent of the Northern League (the names at stake are those of Giancarlo Giorgetti and Riccardo Molinari). However, the game is general, but for now the picture does not seem to have changed. But on Thursday in the Chamber – two thirds to go – in the first three votes, the center-right must vote blank and then bet everything on Friday’s vote. “Progress has been made” in the negotiations, explained La Russa, leaving Montecitorio after a day of meetings at the offices of the Fdi group. It is possible that there will be a center-right summit on Wednesday, on the eve of the first votes. “The agreement must be comprehensive, there are no tests of strength in progress”, observes a ‘grand’ of the Brothers of Italy. “But if the Senate presidency touched the Fdi, the balance would also change in the executive”, observes a ‘great’ ex-lombard, underlining how in this case the Meloni party would touch both Palazzo Chigi and the second position of the State.

Salvini at the Arcore summit would have reiterated to look at the Ministry of the Interior for the League, its ‘plan B’ remains that of Infrastructure, but first of all it will be necessary to understand the final result of the negotiations on the presidencies of the Chambers to then understand how the list of ministers will unfold. Because there are those who argue that the game of the Senate presidency can be ‘used’ by IDE allies to try to strengthen their presence in the executive. Forza Italia would have given up for the time being: the blue party appoints a strong department to the coordinator Tajani (Foreign Affairs one of the options) and the group’s vice president in the Senate Ronzulli. Contacts in the alliance would be ongoing, but at the moment they leak little. The knots at the table that have emerged in recent days are still unresolved, but the ‘chorus’ of the prime minister in pectore is that we should focus on the best numbers.