All the moves of Salvini and Meloni on Quirinale and beyond

Paola Sacchi's note

If Enrico Letta goes to Giorgia Meloni – at the initiative of the Brothers of Italy, Atreju – crowning her as a sort of ideal "opponent", effectively launching a symbolic message that goes beyond the involvement requested of the opposition for the Quirinale, in the same yesterday evening in the chamber of the chamber groups another film was broadcast: that of the pride of the League which intends to win and lead the country.

Matteo Salvini, which will also be he who Atreju, repeatedly interrupted by applause of his deputies, says: "We are now in partnership characters (with the Dragons ed) government, but I am convinced that we are destined to rule this country", without the Left .

Salvini, with Riccardo Molinari sitting next to the group leader in Montecitorio, claims the strength of the League "the more than one hundred congresses last weekend". And above all on the Quirinale he also warns the rest of politics: “You will see that we will be the only ones to be compact, we will be granite. Our distinctive feature is compactness ".

It is a Salvini who also re-launches himself in the role of leader of the center-right. To the reporters, answering a question from the Agi , at the end of the meeting, he announced: "For the Supplements in the Rome / 1 college we will find a unitary candidacy as a coalition". And on the Corsa al Colle he replies: "Absolutely yes, the center-right will converge on a single name".

He does not mention names, but in fact he says no to any other attempts by the left in difficulty – never dormant despite the repeated denials of the Head of State – for a Mattarella bis. Salvini, in fact, exhorts and motivates his team as follows: “We must not make a mistake, we will be able to win by proving to be granite. The choice of the President of the Republic will be fundamental, also because Mattarella's successor will be an interlocutor for three terms: the current one, the next one and the next one ".

The former Minister of the Interior therefore speaks of a "successor" to the current Head of State, at the Quirinale for three legislatures. There is also a clear no to the hypothesis on the left to let Mattarella stay until the reform is completed with the reduction in the number of parliamentarians that will start with the 2023 elections. And it also seems to deduce from Salvini's words that he does not believe, as indeed he had repeatedly said about the possibility of early elections in 2022.

At the same time, the Northern League leader seems to be sending a dig at Meloni, claiming the role of the League in the Draghi government and some important achievements, such as those in the battle against rising bills. Salvini recalls the price his party paid for the country when he warns: “Time is a gentleman, we will govern this country with a homogeneous team. We are pragmatic and constructive, those who want to divide us will be disappointed ".

This is a clear message for Letta and Luigi Di Maio, who always in Atreju had defined him as “unreliable”. And also for Giuseppe Conte and his desire for proportional representation: "A strong League and a compact center-right need not fear any electoral law". Therefore, he repositioned Salvini, his party as a driving force for the center-right.

As for the Quirinale and the difficulties of a left that for the first time no longer holds the snitch, but which with the leader of the Democratic Party (Letta asks for a large majority, rejects both the Berlusconi hypothesis and in fact Draghi's) claims the same role as a king maker, even without numbers, Salvini does not enter any candidates. Deputy Secretary Lorenzo Fontana, however, had spoken of a confrontation that would start from that with Matteo Renzi and the centrists. In search of a candidate "superpartes" and "not of the Democratic Party", added the leader of the League.

But, in any case, as the announcement of a unified candidacy of the center-right for the Suppltives of Rome demonstrates, this does not mean that the League is no longer the political opponent of the leader of IV, who has already leaked the hypothesis of a Renzi name in the college of Rome / 1. Finally, a very harsh judgment on the general strike by CGIL and UIL : “Crazy idea. Even in times of super green pass, let alone … "

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/salvini-meloni-letta/ on Fri, 10 Dec 2021 06:29:20 +0000.