As center-right and center-left they melt away on the war
The divisions in the center-right between Meloni and Salvini are found on the same theme also in the center-left between Letta and Conte. Federico Guiglia's notebook
In the balance is Matteo Salvini's trip to Moscow just like the political relationship with Giorgia Meloni in Rome. Those "cracks" that the leader of the Brothers of Italy invited the head of the League not to open with foreign policy initiatives to the detriment of the West and the national interest, are instead creeping into the center-right.
Salvini took the advice of his potential ally – but above all antagonist – very badly in the elections of spring 2023, associating her "with the background chorus of Letta, Meloni, Renzi, Calenda and the radical-chic intellectuals who prefer weapons and conflict" . While he, Salvini, for peace is "willing to do anything and to meet everyone".
Not therefore a different opinion, but an attack is what the Northern League leader considers to have received from the leader destined to campaign with him and with Silvio Berlusconi.
Beyond the tones and the Manichaeism between war and peace (in the entire political arc there is no leader who does not want the end of the conflict), the Salvini / Meloni controversy raises a serious and decisive question: who is with whom and which world national politics wants to build after the terrible ordeal of war with all its consequences. Gas for Italy and bread for Africa, refugees for Europe and the crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine by Putin's troops.
The role of Italy and its choice of field, European and Atlantic, will become a priority theme of the electoral campaign and in any case of the institutional and international choices of the parties.
This is why the currently incompatible positions between Salvini and Meloni on this issue can have far heavier effects than the divisions already recorded in the center-right on the Draghi government (Lega and Forza Italia inside, Fdi outside), on the strategies followed by the executive against the pandemic or on the 5 upcoming referendums regarding justice: Salvini is for 5 yes, Meloni for at least 2 no.
Moreover, the same national problem is mirrored on the left, where Enrico Letta's firm Euro-Atlantic position on Ukraine and the convinced support for Draghi are distinct and distant from Giuseppe Conte's positions. Pd and M5S: the time of electoral choice will come for them too. But in the meantime it has already arrived for the center-right.
Published in The Arena of Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza and Bresciaoggi
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-centrodestra-e-centrosinistra-si-squagliano-sulla-guerra/ on Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:42:19 +0000.