In order to get past the current
government crisis, there is the need to weigh alternative
majorities, Democratic Party (PD) House Whip Graziano Delrio
said Wednesday.
"In a parliamentary democracy," he said in an interview
published by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, "if there is
a government crisis, then there is the possibility also for the
same parliament to ensure alternative majorities. Otherwise you
vote."
He added that management of crises is, "luckily, the task of
the head of state".
Delrio noted that Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
Matteo Salvini "was the true creator of the disasters of the
coalition government" between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and
the League.
"He was the main one, very much more than (Prime Minister
Giuseppe) Conte or (Deputy Prime Minister and M5S leader Luigi)
Di Maio," he added, noting that he thinks that any return of the
same coalition is highly unlikely.
The crisis "came into being because Salvini brought it into
being, officially. You cannot go back from here. And I do not
thank that M5S want to commit suicide."
On the possibility of creating a PD-M5S government, he said
that he had never been against the idea of "assessing agreement
on political programs".
An agreement, however, "seems very complicated to me and, if
there is one, it will be based on what is best for Italians. And
it will certainly not be made at any cost", he added.
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