All the intertwining between regional elections and national scazzi
Facts, names and scuffles between majority and opposition. Paola Sacchi's note
While the candidate for the secretariat of the Pd Elly Schlein shows herself even more intransigent than the already very harsh tones with which Enrico Letta had replied to Giorgia Meloni and on the Cospito case accuses FdI of "squadrist" attitudes, the paradox wants Silvio Berlusconi to recall the lesson of unity against terrorism "in which the DC and the PCI also succeeded".
Berlusconi citing the PCI positively for unity in firmness with the other political forces during the years of lead is certainly a message also addressed to his FdI allies, whom Meloni herself had invited to be the first to tone down, while rejecting the resignation request for Giovanni Donzelli and Andrea Delmastro.
But the unitary message of the Cav, contrary to modifications of the 41 bis, above all stands out and clashes with the harsh run-up against the majority who continue to come from the left, paradoxically precisely from the party heir to the former PCI and the Left DC, and from the centre-left as a whole, with the same Carlo Calenda of the "Third pole" who goes so far as to call the premier "semi-fascist", while immediately backtracking afterwards.
While the center-right, despite its stories and plural accents, solidly locks itself in on the no to the amendment of 41 bis and on firmness (Meloni reiterates: "The state does not deal with the mafia, it does not deal with those who threaten it". Matteo Salvini: "I don't sit at the table with anyone who throws Molotov cocktails at the Carabinieri, if he has been sentenced to life imprisonment there will be a reason, it is right that he is prevented from talking to young people"), in the centre-left there is a blossoming of quarrels and internal divisions.
Matteo Renzi generally attacks dem exponents on the political line who say they "want to recover Lenin" and to Gianni Cuperlo he replies dryly: with me "you had a Ferrari and now you have a Twingo".
On the one hand, the compact center-right, on the other, splits and divisions in the opposition camp. These are the two clearly contrasting images offered by the last Sunday of the electoral campaign for the Regional elections of 12 and 13 February in Lombardy and Lazio.
Berlusconi, who underlines the "indispensable" role of FI, a "liberal, guarantor, pro-European, Atlantic centre", on a "political and numerical level" and recalls that he "was the only one who asked for new structures so that prisons are places for the re-education of prisoners”, he warns: “They will try to exploit our every little mistake, they will attack us on everything, they will try to divide us, but they will not succeed. They have never succeeded in 30 years, since I founded the centre-right”.
“We will last at least 5 years. In spite of the owls, we will continue to govern together,” says Salvini. And the Prime Minister, Meloni, who as president of FdI concludes the unitary center-right demonstration in Rome in support of the candidate Francesco Rocca, relaunches the duration of the government, called "to change things for an Italy where the rules, where there is certainty of law and certainty of punishment".
The premier underlines: "We are here to remove the encrustations, to free up the energies of this country, to carry out the reforms". The prime minister mentions the combination of presidentialism and differentiated autonomy. And he concludes: “In five years we will still be here”. The Cospito case is in the background, but gradually it seems to slip more and more towards the end credits.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/elezioni-regionali-maggioranza-opposizione/ on Mon, 06 Feb 2023 06:47:00 +0000.