Carmelo Caruso

The Prime Minister’s call to action: “Go out and canvass for votes.” And she warns: I will not tolerate those who stay in Rome drinking away their time, whilst I am working and have no private life

 The PD is using her ‘independent’ status as a pretext to marginalise Annunziata. Her work ends up on desks and is only opened months later. The objection is simple: why doesn’t she join the party, why doesn’t she get a membership card? The answer is just as straightforward: she had agreed with Schlein on ‘independence’ – that special quality that gives rise to constructive criticism and a dissenting voice. 

The Lega’s (farce of a) congress is drawing near, and the secretary is carrying on as usual: “Anyone who doesn’t attend is making a mistake, because it will be an opportunity for proposals and discussion.”

Changes are expected at the top of the company by October. Amongst others, Renzi’s former deputy minister, Lapo Pistelli, is also moving on.

Today’s meeting of the secretariat is to discuss the extension of the mandate and to put a stop to any other Democratic Party candidacies in the coalition primaries, starting with that of the former mayor of Bergamo. However, if Schlein stood as a candidate—in breach of the party constitution—while not a registered member, how can another candidacy now be banned when the party constitution actually permits it? For the secretary, the PD’s constitution is not like the Constitution: it can be changed as and when necessary.

The dates chosen by the secretary coincide with the Festival delle Regioni in Florence, where leading figures from the Lega are expected to attend. It is yet another lapse in attention

The majority resolution will include, alongside the DPFB, a report authorising budgetary deviations in the areas of energy and defence (provided the committees approve it – as the resolution proposing it appears to suggest).

At Mediaset, the ‘Berlingueroni I’ era has begun, featuring Pier Silvio’s ‘magnificent seven’. Now the presenter could be set to reunite with Mauro Crippa

The project is worth half the Finance Bill, but the more time passes, the more the world is going up in flames. And for some ministers, should it be rejected, “it is clear that its implementation is impossible”.

We bring you the full story of how the Foreign Secretary’s grand dream came to an end – he wanted to include the word ‘trade’ in the name of his department (stepping on the toes of the FdI minister). The absence of his father-in-law also plays a part.