Giorgia Meloni rules out Matteo Salvini as head of the Interior or any other “key ministry”

The day after the elections, the winner, the far-right leader Giorgia Melonidedicated it to the family and the gym “to lower the tension”, but also to numerous calls to quickly set up an Executive that meets the requests of its coalition partners, Liga and Forza Italia, and that is capable of starting a dialogue with Brussels.

For political analysts, Meloni has already excluded the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, as Minister of the Interiorhighly questioned by the barons of the party for its poor results in these elections, since it did not exceed 9% and with a significant drop compared to 28% in the general elections of 2018.

It is a ministry to which Salvini wanted to return to reapply his security law and his strong hand against immigration, despite being sitting on the bench for having prevented the arrival of the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms for more than 20 days. with a hundred immigrants and that is something that could be objected to by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who is the one who must confirm the ministers.

According to the newspaper The Republic Salvini “can now stop dreaming of demanding key ministries to re-enact the script that led him to daily bombard and harass Conte and make Draghi impatient.” The Italian newspaper reports that if he doesn’t stick to Meloni’s requests he risks throwing everything away.

What can happen is that you end up carrying out some other responsibility managing a portfolio. Because after all, as Italian analysts point out, it is better to have Salvini with his hands full than with his hands free.

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Guido Crossetto, founder together with Meloni of Brothers of Italy and one of his main advisers, assures that “the best will be chosen” without taking into account the party. Crosetto left the party years ago but is now gaining strength for a position in the most extreme right-wing Italian Executive since the era of fascism.

“If anyone thinks that the new Executive will be created with the Cencelli manual -as the political formula that assigns ministries according to the weight of the parties in the government majority is known- or by planting party flags in the ministries, they are very wrong. The government of Meloni will be built by choosing the best assets“, he points out this Tuesday in an interview published in the newspaper The Messaggero.

One of Meloni’s calls was to the acting prime minister, mario draghiaccording to the Italian media, to start a dialogue that allows the Budgets to be presented as soon as possible, given the short deadlines for it.

The intentions of the next Executive must be reflected in the Draft Budget Plan, which has to be sent to the European Commission before October 15, a deadline impossible to meet because the Government has not yet been constituted, which at the earliest could be ready to the end of that same month, according to Cristina Cabrejas from the agency Eph.

Thus, Italy is likely to request an extension to present the textwhich would immediately become the Budget bill that the new Parliament must approve before December 31.

Despite separating Salvini, it seems that Meloni could leave the Ministry of Economic Development to the League, where the economic “guru” of the sovereignist party, Giancarlo Giorgetti, now sits.

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Although Crosetto assures that there will be no “distribution” of ministries, Forza Italia, with its unexpected 8.3%, claims at least four ministries and of them at least one of importance, perhaps Foreign Affairs, for Antonio Tajani with his long experience in Europe.

Economy Minister

Giorgia Meloni has moderated her anti-European discourse during the campaign, above all because the constructive dialogue with Brussels is necessary to guarantee the next installments of European funds that must arrive, as well as to review some details of the Recovery Plan presented by Italy to allocate more money to the energy crisis, as he promised in the campaign.

After in the past Mattarella vetoed Paolo Savona’s figure in the Economy portfolio for being in favor of leaving the euro, this time Meloni will go with lead feet in the election of the minister: “a very serious figure who knows how to keep accounts in order and has a strategic vision of growth”, as she herself explained.

While figures like Giulio Tremonti, already Economy Minister under Silvio Berlusconi and now in the ranks of Meloni’s party, fail to convince, one could opt for a “technician”: Fabio Panetta, economist and former CEO of the Bank of Italy and president of the Insurance Supervision Institute and member of the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank.

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Panetta would be a figure that could reassure the markets and capable of dialoguing with Brussels so that it reschedules the use of European funds in the face of rising energy prices.

Regarding the head of Economy, Crosetto assures: “We need a person with authority because the Minister of Economy is the first position that will be judged not only in Italy but also abroad.”

“If the turbulence begins due to a poorly chosen name, the Government will not advance and Meloni has been aware of this for a long time”he warns.