I’ll explain the real relationship between Salvini and Maroni
The real relationship between Salvini and Maroni and the non-news from the funeral in Varese. Paola Sacchi's note
Fortunately there were also informed and elegant reports, from which the only real news emerges: the day before yesterday Roberto " Bobo " Maroni in his Varese "gathered the whole League". Unfortunately, however, it was also necessary to read articles from which emerges the impression that was written about the crowded and emotional farewell to the historic Northern League, number two of Umberto Bossi, then his successor – to the former three-times minister (twice at the Interior, one at Welfare), finally ex president of Lombardy – almost above all to try to land a cold kick on the shins, moreover not even supported by events during the ceremony, to Matteo Salvini. That is, the federal secretary of the League, the minister of infrastructure and deputy prime minister, described in a somewhat tragicomic way almost as if he were an intruder in Varese. While there are videos in which, surrounded by the affection of the militants, a Salvini with his eyes a little swollen with tears, recalls "Bobo", as someone who "concretely solved problems, he didn't create them". Then, Salvini concludes with a brusque "enough" to the reporters, who knows, maybe even so as not to be seen in tears. It is known history that he and Maroni had no longer agreed on various things in recent times, "Bobo" in his column on "Il Foglio" had also made an endorsement for Luca Zaia secretary, who when asked replied however that the thing did not it concerned him. And it is equally obvious that political funerals are an occasion to talk about the party or government affected by mourning.
Making rhetorical reports, on the wave of death, which, as Indro Montanelli said, "gilds everything", is never a good professional exercise. But may the homage to a politician, who died prematurely, who marked the transition from the First to the Second Republic under Bossi's leadership, become for a certain left-wing or anti-Salvinian media narrative regardless the pretext to coldly attack Salvini and draw hypothetical paper congresses, as if the League had not returned to government and were in the same plague as the Democratic Party, appears only gratuitous inelegance and above all non-news. Not even justified by the very composed ceremony.
For those who know a little about Lega and have attended as a Pontida envoy, other than Salvini intruder in the story of "Bobo". He wanted him as third secretary of the League, after Bossi's resignation following the Belsito case. Salvini was elected in the primaries challenging the founder of the then Lega Nord himself. It was Maroni who indicated him as successor already at the Assago congress where the same "Bobo" was elected to replace the Senatùr. Maroni said smiling to the audience who perhaps didn't expect it: "And then there are the youngsters after me, right Matteo?". Salvini, behind him with his peers applauded. Maroni also added a joke. More or less he said something that sounded like a praise and an affectionate warning at the same time: "Eh, Matteo, I see you, however, very bubbly…" .
Salvini, the former first young city councilor in Milan, the only one of the Northern League to make it through among the good kids of Via della Spiga, every day about ten events throughout the city, from the historic center to the most popular markets, to the deepest suburbs, is an integral part of Maroni's League itself, which, under the guidance of Bossi, he entered in 1990, very young and as an imaginative professional journalist he made "Radio Padania" take off.
Then he transformed the Northern League into the National League, until what was a large territorial party-movement in the North became the first Italian party. Salvini, although still young, is no longer the "bubbly" boy from Assago, he saved the party which was just over 3 percent. Then he paid the first price for a government which he consistently pulled the plug from his point of view, because the League, yesterday and today, has always been incompatible with philosophies against growth and development such as those of the grill, then he paid the price in consensus to enter Mario Draghi's national emergency, not unity, government, to which the Head of State called all political forces to contribute.
Maroni himself, unlike Bossi, agreed with his breakthrough of the National League. Then, their paths diverged. Maroni withdrew from the race for a second term at the helm of Lombardy, also pursued by legal proceedings which ended in nothing, according to the usual script of the political use of justice. But "Bobo" and the founder Bossi in Pontida by Salvini have always been remembered.
The history of the Northern League is complex, the history of the oldest party in parliament, however one thinks of it, made up of political passion and also of quarrels and reconciliations, reducing it to the gratuitous search for a cold kick to its federal secretary, on the occasion of the funeral of one of the protagonists of that story, is above all to give non-news to the reader .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-spiego-i-veri-rapporti-fra-salvini-e-maroni/ on Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:59:48 +0000.