All the moves (popular and liberal) of Salvini’s League
The evolution of the Salvini League as seen by Paola Sacchi
“Has Renzi already signed up for the referendums? I haven't seen it and haven't heard it for a long time. But as Stefania and Bobo Craxi signed, he is welcome too ”. Matteo Salvini, last Sunday with Il Corriere della sera pronounced the symbolic name of the scapegoat of the season that started justicialism, the name that still divides Italy. The name Craxi, which still today, according to the news, as Stefania, senator of FI declares in a bitter note, accompanies a sentence of the Cassation that condemns the family of the socialist statesman to pay court costs because Bettino would not have been in compliance with the tax on a matter of alleged funds, as if he had been a private citizen and not a party secretary, as if some members of the same Pool had not already recognized that Craxi did not enrich himself personally, Stefania remembers indignantly, denouncing "fury towards Craxi and his family".
But returning to Salvini, who had already sent to Hammamet, where Renziana IV was also present, for the twentieth anniversary of Craxi, an official delegation of the League with the former undersecretary Armando Siri, the challenge that the other Matteo launches to Renzi and Forza Italia itself. Objective: to make the League more and more a party that also transversally embraces liberal and guarantee issues.
The more than 100,000 signatures for the Lega and Radical referendums collected in a single weekend, in over 1500 Lega gazebos, are in fact also reshaping the face of the League, "clearing" further, in fact – if the electoral consents were not enough that made it the first party, the many Regions and Municipalities it administers – that “L” factor to which the opponents on the left are still trying to nail it, but also Renzi himself. Factor "L" as once the factor "K" for the communists and that is that the League could not express a prime minister because he has not yet passed the exams of Europeanism, joining the EPP.
But of anti-Europeanism, as recognized by the champion of liberalism Marcello Pera, in the so-called European “sovereignist” manifesto signed by the League, in fact, nothing is found. Indeed, the first part is also entirely dedicated to the defense of the Atlantic Pact. So much so that some attentive observers see Salvini as a way to approach the EPP, but from a position of strength to renew it.
The fact remains that after the stop to the Federation of the center-right government, proposed by the Lega leader himself – a de facto stop determined by the relaunch of the single party of the Center-right, or CDU, by Berlusconi, which puts the liberal, pro-European soul at the center of Forza Italia -, Salvini does not give up his battle. That is, the one to attest the League as a pivotal party of the center-right, of government and of opposition with the Brothers of Italy by Giorgia Meloni, which undermines it in the leadership, and instead relaunch its leadership, in view of the elections of 2023. With the hope that the results obtained by the Draghi government, after his choice, to join and support him, more than confirmed, will reward his bet that still today sends the Democratic Party into a tailspin. And today, however, it is not yet accompanied by a political recognition to the League of being a first party in all respects also by Renzi. That continues to emphasize the Papeete, the full powers and all the annexes and connected exams that never end in Salvini on a European level. All seasoned with an eternal, infinite debate on the center, which once, however, had already ended up mainly in the center-right, through Berlusconi, and this time, if by center we mean that in the flesh of the middle, productive and bourgeois classes. entrepreneurial neglected, is in fact already finished in the League. Which certainly will have to continue its path in the EU, but in "a reformed Europe". A Europe that, moreover, as Draghi himself affirmed in fact, after Covid has changed the rigid rules of austerity. Salvini tries. It does not give up.
The radical secretary Maurizio Turco, who called the referendums with the League, recognizes him, as he did last night at the Fourth Republic of Porro, "a commendable job", of "spinning like a top", praises "the non-stop work of Northern League militants at the banquets ”which intercept a wide variety of signatures for the 6 referendum questions. A battle for "just justice". A League that wants to center the battle of the "center" through the liberal, guarantors and Italian entrepreneurs' demands.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-mosse-popolari-e-liberali-della-lega-di-salvini/ on Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:59:26 +0000.