All the elbows in the center on Letizia Moratti
The latest political news in the center-right and center-left (in particular on the candidacy of Letizia Moratti for the presidency of the Lombardy Region). Paola Sacchi's note
Arm wrestling with NGOs in the Mediterranean, while Giorgia Meloni is in Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh at the Cop-27 international climate conference, where she states that "Italy will do its part" and has a bilateral meeting with al Sisi, with which he also addresses the Regeni case and that of the student Patrick Zaki, "Strong attention" by Italy for "respect for human rights" is underlined in a note from the premier's office. But in the spotlight there is above all the tug-of-war in front of our coasts, with the ships of migrants and their destination (to the countries of which they fly the flag, according to the inter-ministerial decree), after humanitarian assistance and the disembarkation of more fragile.
The Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio also takes the field to reiterate the line of "humanity and firmness", because "the selection cannot be made by smugglers". In the same vein, the Minister for the South and the Sea, Nello Musumeci. Matteo Salvini, who visits the Coast Guard, a sector of his competence as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, remembers and thanks the words of Pope Francis who last Sunday recalled the whole of Europe to the duty of welcoming without leaving Italy anymore. alone. The Northern League leader, minister and deputy premier, reminds us that the trafficking of human lives must be stopped immediately also due to the connections that could exist with trafficking "of arms and drugs".
The opposition is regrouping against the "inhuman line", in his opinion, of the government. But after the Pope's appeal to the EU for redistribution and the recognition that the government acts respecting the humanitarian line, there is a misalignment between the Democratic Party and the pentastellated leader Giuseppe Conte, who intervenes against the government after the dems. A gap that, however, immediately triggers the accusation for the delay by the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party, Beppe Provenzano. It is evident that even after the split of Saturday's demonstration in Rome for "peace", dominated in fact by Conte, with Letta contested for his line in defense of Ukraine and pro NATO, the challenge for hegemony on the left is in full swing.
But to divide the oppositions now there is above all the challenge in Lombardy waged by the "third pole" of Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi with the candidacy of Letizia Moratti who disrupts the games in the center-left field but somehow creates reflections even on the very more compact than the center-right in the government. The Democratic Party traces the way to the primaries. But Beppe Sala warns that the problem for the Democratic Party is to make a choice "to win", while for Calenda and Renzi it is more than winning to consolidate their position on the same pattern already followed for the national parliament. Could the candidacy of Sala himself be, now that Carlo Cottarelli's seems to have faded, since he would not intend to run without the "third pole"? In the Lombard Democratic Party, some would see the mayor of Milan as the winning card. And at the same time there is also the knot of the Regionals in Lazio where Calenda spariglia launching the hypothesis of the councilor dem Alessio D'Amato but without the Five Stars, which the Democratic Party does not accept.
Meanwhile, for Lombardy Salvini announces that the candidacy will be that of the current Northern League governor Attilio Fontana and reminds Moratti, that he himself had wanted as vice president, that it is "no longer the case to bring up fascism". “And that's it!”, Salvini says. A "RTL" also reminds the priorities of the League that will have to be addressed in the Budget: from the flat tax to the scrapping of tax bills to the revision of citizenship income. One way to put the League back at the center on commitments that the premier had already made his own.
But it is clear that as long as the opposition situation is so marked by the rifts, the center-right will be able to enjoy a considerable advantage. Even if a similar fraying of the center-left could have as a physiological rebound effect that of accentuating the distinctions in the majority.
For now, however, unity on the left is registered only against the government's line in a tug-of-war with NGOs in the Mediterranean.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/letizia-moratti-centrosinistra-centrodestra/ on Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:34:38 +0000.