Administrative elections: those who rejoice, those who pretend and those who shoulder
Paola Sacchi's point on the results of the local elections
The disappointment due to the lack of quorum, with a turnout that stopped at lower thresholds than the same expectations, in the referendums on justice, promoted by Lega and Radicali, supported by Silvio Berlusconi, did not however turn into defeat for the center-right.
The coalition was the winner of the administrations which also recorded a sharp decline in turnout. The Democratic Party and the Five Stars certainly cannot sing victory now, nor on the referendums, where the invitation to the No was in fact a masked abstention, something not really suited to a left that had made participation in the vote its flower. eyelet. And even more so the left and the pentastellati victory cannot sing it to the Administrations:
Palermo, despite a disturbing chaos at the polls, Genoa and L'Aquila conquered in the first round are now a wake-up call for the so-called “campo largo”. The dem project on which the famous photo of Narni continues to weigh, as we predicted in an article in recent days. It does not concern the fate of the town which remained in the Democratic Party, but the photo of the big Democrats and Five Stars still symbolizes the defeat of the yellow-red alliance three years ago, in Umbria which went from deep red to lead the League , towing the center-right.
The yellow-red numbers of Genoa, where, however, the center-right mayor Marco Bucci already ruled, stopped at around 35 percent. And this was the first time since Umbria that the Pd and Cinque Stelle presented themselves with an organic alliance to the Administrations.
The pentastellated numbers around Italy sound like a defeat. A heavy defeat admitted by the leader himself, former premier Giuseppe Conte . In the Democratic Party there are strong discontent over this alliance such as those expressed to Enrico Letta by the senator, close to Matteo Renzi, Andrea Marcucci. Renzi himself, now leader of Italia Viva, is lapidary: he lost the left, the center-right won.
But those who lost, in this round of Administrative, with ballot on June 26, are also the various transversal neo-centrist attempts to insinuate themselves into the fractures of the center-right for a return to proportional representation. The center-right, in which, according to the mainstream narrative, the showdown should have taken place last night, especially between Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, reacted with unitary and balanced tones.
Meloni has overtaken the governing League in many municipalities, even in the North, which predictably would have paid a price in terms of consensus for his choice to be in the Draghi executive. But these are not stratospheric overtaking figures. In Genoa, for example, where Salvini and the Ligurian League secretary Edoardo Rixi in the many rallies for Bucci had already foreseen the dry affirmation in the first round, until yesterday evening FdI was two points above.
FdI, as Giorgia Meloni recalled, reconfirmed and won over many mayors. But Meloni did not make triumphalist statements at the expense of Lega and Forza Italia. He invited them to leave the Draghi government and put an iron stop to the proportional attempts: "The voters have received a clear indication that only a united center-right and alternative to the left will win".
Salvini is also very clear in favor of the majority and against the return of the proportional. And the head of the blue Departments, the deputy of FI Alessandro Cattaneo: “From the administrative offices the signal comes that bipolarism has won. If the broad field is that of the Democratic Party and the Five Stars, that is the left that is opposed to our liberal and guaranteeist vision ". Obvious allusion to the fate of the referendums. Roberto Calderoli, deputy vice president of the Senate, a historical exponent of the League denounced the "boycott".
Salvini against the advance of Fdi, which in some areas doubles support compared to the League, contrasts "the 20 more mayors we have conquered from North to South, for now". And he reiterates after the pax in Verona: “Those of us who have one more vote in Politics wins and governs. Good for the result of FdI, good for FI, as in Monza, Berlusconi is great. I am a man who believes in the team and in any case the League is not dead. But the center-right only wins united ”.
The Northern League leader also advances the proposal that the Northern League governor Attilio Fontana be resubmitted. The mischievous people saw in this a signal to Meloni of the type: it will not be an overtaking of an important round of the Administrative to determine who will be the candidate for governor.
But, in the meantime, the knot of the re-nomination in Sicily of Nello Musumeci, claimed by Meloni, has not yet been resolved. Now, in the immediate future, the center-right is grappling with the tear in Verona, with FI supporting Flavio Tosi against the mayor Federico Sboarina on whom there was peace between the Lega and FdI.
But it seems almost certain that the center-right will meet in the ballot, as Licia Ronzulli said. Satisfied the centrist Maurizio Lupi who considers the center-right the coalition most suited to the liberal and moderate ideas of the center. In tune with what Berlusconi has always supported.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/elezioni-amministrative-chi-esulta-chi-finge-e-chi-tracolla/ on Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:16:05 +0000.