The head of state from Germany responds indirectly to the Finance Minister Schaeuble: we are not without a government, Monti remains in office
BERLIN
The President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian situation calms down and ensures that the country “is not in disarray.”
From Berlin, the Head of State explained: the start time of the legislature can not be accelerated, “there are requirements to be met”, then “I do not see what the possibilities of acceleration, because after March 20 will be composed of the parliamentary groups that will go to the Quirinale for consultations. ” In any case, “there is an Italy in disarray – said Napolitano – Italy is not no government at this time” and “there is no risk of contagion.”
“To be a contagion – said the President of the Republic at a press conference in Berlin after a meeting with the German Federal President Joachim Gauck – there must be a disease, and we have not taken any disease. Is to manage a complicated election result, there was fragmentation and polarization, but that can not happen to have a result that leaves us more relaxed you make an agreement on the result table. ” He added: “It is the people freely expressed, this is the law of democracy, we have to deal respecting the will of the voters.” “There are obligations to respect” as the verification of the elect, appoint the Presidents of the Chambers and the composition of the parliamentary groups: “So I do not see what is the possibility of an acceleration,” responded Napolitano told reporters on a possible acceleration of the formation of the government.
Meanwhile, the political impasse in the full post voting, seeking a way out after the opening of Pier Luigi Bersani Movement 5 Stars and the harsh reaction of Beppe Grillo. An attempt to unravel the tangle comes from Massimo D’Alema, from the pages of Corser, aims to create a “Constituent Assembly” with “an assumption of responsibility on the part of the main forces, first movement 5 stars, center, and we ‘and attributed to the first two “chairs of parliamentary assemblies,” and with a government led by the “party that has the majority in the Senate and the House that absolute. And he expressed Bersani as candidate for prime minister. ” Proposal, however, does not collect the consent of the democrat.
Complicating the situation is added the news of two new investigations involving Silvio Berlusconi, the first in Naples, where the former prime minister is under investigation for corruption and illegal financing of political parties in connection with the alleged sale of parliamentarians in 2006, in relation to the passage dall’Idv the PDL Senator Sergio De Gregorio, during a term. The second investigation conducted by the prosecutor in Reggio Emilia, he sees the Knight entered in the register of suspects after a few exposed signed by citizens of Reggio Emilia for alleged “vote trading”, due to the content of the letter in full campaign in which the leader the PDL, in case of victory, he promised to return IMU 2012. News that will blow up the controversy, with the PDL that shoots to zero against the “usual judiciary to watch” and speaks of “coup attempt by the prosecution,” while the secretary, Angelino Alfano, invokes the square: “We announce as early as now a major demonstration of the defense of the sovereignty of the People of Freedom and of Italian democracy. ”
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is uncertain what to do, but the proposal does not license plate D’Alema is in favor of the majority of the party to speak on behalf of the secretariat was first Nico Stumpo. “The Democratic Party is against any form of governissimo,” he explained, and the prime ministerial candidate of the party remains Pier Luigi Bersani. But a clear rejection came from representatives of various souls of the party. Although there are those who criticize the opening of the Secretary of Beppe Grillo.