By Mattarella Renzi: I have the numbers, go ahead – Il Sole 24 Ore

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The meeting at Colle was already planning ahead of the NATO summit today and tomorrow. But in the face to face between Matteo Renzi and Sergio Mattarella protagonist was inevitably the political news in recent days and the next few months scenarios, since the constitutional referendum to be held – this is what emerged during the interview – in October or maximum of 6 November, to avoid All Saints.

the prime minister believes that there are no surprises, that the area of ​​dissent among centrists is limited and therefore Tuesday, when the Aula the Senate will be asked to approve the bill on the reform of the budget of local authorities, which requires an absolute majority, there will be more of the 161 votes needed to go ahead. But if not for Renzi, and reiterated it to the Head of State, the only way is the immediate return to the polls. This would be the line that would lead as secretary of the Democratic Party. It applies to any parliamentary incident but also in case the constitutional reform was rejected.

The referendum Renzi is the watershed of this legislature and prevail if the “no” to him and his party should draw conclusions asking the elections. A prospect that the Quirinale can not marry. Not in the absence of a uniform electoral law that the voting system of Room (where there is the Italicum) and Senate (Consultellum or proportional) to ensure governability. Because the referendum deadline falls right during the Budget session and then you should pass the law Stability. In the absence of this condition, the most plausible hypothesis would be that the so-called ‘special purpose government. ” At least that’s what you keep repeating in parliamentary corridors, where internal fibrillation to centrist Agelino Alfano have spawned the idea of ​​possible alternative governments.

From the Quirinale they do know that Mattarella does not intend to go after ” imaginative reconstructions “on the positions it would take in the event of crisis. No one would question his role-partisan, is the message. The Head of State, is insured, has no ready alternative plans and has no intention of anticipating decisions about what might happen in a few months.

The distance between the positions of prime minister and the head of state would make for some pretty tense moments of the interview, despite the denials coming from the Hill and Palazzo Chigi describing him as always “friendly and relaxed” .

But beyond the adjectives the fact remains that for Renzi “no” to the reforms impose an immediate return to the voters, even with two different electoral systems. No customization, reiterates the prime minister, who during the confrontation with Mattarella also spoke of the ‘unpacking’ of the referendum, ie the possibility, already advanced in recent months by the radicals and then taken up by others, to submit more questions to voters (such example V and abolition of bicameralism).

Renzi has so far not made any secret of preferring a single board. Yet it has not compared the possible foreclosure unpacking. A willingness which would go into more on the merits of stripping reform of plebiscitary character that many have criticized the prime minister.

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