Sergio Mattarella summons Giuseppe Conte al Quirinale, fed up with the delays on Ilva: a very heavy gesture

Sergio Mattarella is not happy with the political activity of the premier Conte. And with the convening of the unions at Quirinale, he has amply demonstrated, writes The print on newsstands Tuesday 19 November. According to institutional etiquette, it is not the president's duty to point the way to the head of government. It would represent an invasion of the field. But it is evident that Landini, Barbagallo is Furlan they did not go to the president of the Republic to talk about maximum systems, and it is equally clear that they asked him for help on Ilva, on behalf of 20 thousand workers with an uncertain future.

If the president has accepted to listen to them without taking refuge behind a very formal "contact Palazzo Chigi", he writes Ugo Magri, it is because he has understood to have become the extreme resource for all those people. Those who know Mattarella well, told it over the past few days more and more worried and impatient and while the unionists crossed the Quirinale door, in the same moments Palazzo Chigi announced the meeting next Friday between "the lawyer of the people" and the leaders of Mittal: a coincidence that was anything but casual.