Because even the North preferred Meloni to Salvini and Letta
What emerges from the vote and the victory of the Brothers of Italy by Giorgia Meloni. Giuliano Cazzola's analysis
Giorgia Meloni enters the history of Italy. Probably, in a few decades, he will have to settle for a footnote, but today his name lies in the opening of all national and foreign newspapers.
The most flattering predictions had hypothesized at certain moments of the electoral campaign, higher percentages of consent, but the result obtained is still a success if you compare it with that of his allies, in particular that of Matteo Salvini who had always refused to recognize them. that primacy that everyone perceived.
Then there is another consideration to be made. Not many months have passed since the polls placed FdI and the Pd in a position of substantial parity. Indeed, it was said at the time that Enrico Letta's Plan B, after the break with Giuseppe Conte, was to emerge from the polls as the first party. A fallback, however, blatantly failed, with a clear detachment from FdI. It is then necessary to immediately make it clear that neither the right-center nor the Brothers of Italy have won. Giorgia Meloni won if it is true that – as demonstrated by a study by SDA Bocconi, released confidentially before election day – the vote for the leadership of the Fiamma accounted for 81% of the total booty to which a vote was added. drag of over 16%, compared to a structural rating of 2.5%. The opposite happened for the Democratic Party and the League where the structural vote (above 70%) was absolutely prevalent compared to the poor performance of the leaders.
The other sensational result – which moreover explains the debacle of the League – is the conquest of the North (including the North East) by the Brothers of Italy. This success is significant from many points of view. The richest and most productive part of the country, whose destinies are linked to Europe precisely as regards the production chains, trusted Meloni more than Salvini. And this trust is also a bond for the president of FdI who must consolidate the new alliance without letting the country run adventures in such a delicate moment.
The other winner (it would be more correct to call him not a loser) is Giuseppe Conte with his movement, albeit with a reduced firmament. Not only did Giuseppi weigh more than expected by the stink-under-the-nose critics on the five-star overall vote, but he provided – with a lot of cheek since he heads the only party that remained uninterruptedly in government for the entire legislature – a unique address in place. of the quot capita quot sententia di prima. Conte even managed to downsize that paper tiger – Alessandro Di Battista – who had become a darling of talk shows.
Now the M5S has placed itself on the left of the Democratic Party, even moving the axis of the dem electoral campaign and recovering part of those votes stolen in 2018, which were then soon disappointed converging on Salvini and the League in the regional and European elections . The Democratic Party is the great loser; and together with the dem mark visit the patrons of the good salons, the publishing lobbies, the protagonists of the show and the show and of a university undergrowth that arrogated to itself the right to establish how politically correct it is, always ready for big complaints and accusations of regression to the Middle Ages for those who were not convinced of certain "new rights". These circles have conducted a campaign against Giorgia Meloni to say the least squalid, attacking her on a personal level with vulgar epithets, without finding the courage to play the hard game by pulling the dance on her political origins.
Italy is a strange country: if in his youth a person played in some far-right organization, the stigma accompanies him throughout his life. If he has been a member of Power Worker or Lotta Continua, even better than Serve the people; if he longed for the Cultural Revolution (an event abhorred by the Chinese regime) he is encouraged to include these experiences in the curriculum with the certainty of having an advantage. The Democratic Party was deceived by its interlocutors: from the M5S to Carlo Calenda; but his management team (the same ones who said to Letta '' go ahead and I laugh!) was forced to weave alliances that were not at all adequate with respect to the objectives of opposition to the right and Giorgia Meloni (that same person who just the secretary of the Democratic Party had helped to clear customs, weaving with her a dialogue to which the left, still stuck on April 25, 1945, had always been reluctant).
The most disturbing thing in the debate within the Democratic Party lies in the search for a lost identity, of which no one has been able to describe the characteristics until now. Polo Calenda-Renzi did not make it to third place, even if it collected – where it went best – a qualified vote on a platform in which nothing was concealed, while those were indicated, without worrying about sweetening the pill. severe and rigorous measures from which the parties usually prefer to turn away. Fortunately, then, the Italians have felt the stench of the rappattumati by ex magistrates manettari, no vax and late communists.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/fratelli-d-italia-nord/ on Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:33:18 +0000.