Because the reports of Salvini’s demise are greatly exaggerated
What really happens in Salvini's League. Paola Sacchi's note
The "de profundis" now recited for years on Matteo Salvini's leadership, practically since he pulled the plug on the Conte 1 government, which has intensified in recent months, reaching its peak after the policies of 25 September, is somewhat reminiscent of difference in age between characters, history and contexts, that empty muttering of the sort "it's done, it's done, it's about to fall", which has accompanied Silvio Berlusconi on the political scene since the fall of his first government in 1994.
Salvini and Cav are obviously different characters, as well as their parties. But the thing that unites and accompanies them is that obsessive empty de profundis , recited by the left-wing media and political narrative in Berlusconi's case for almost 30 years, in Salvini's for at least 3. While in the Democratic Party, never so attentive to the millimeter like the Salvinian League, the walls of the house collapsed, until the return after 10 years to the opposition, secretaries took turns in a flurry to get to the plethora of candidates and the nebula of the program of these days.
Yesterday Salvini, in spite of this obsessive de profundis a vacuum, instead won important congresses of the Northern League. Starting with that of Varese. Victory also in Pavia, in whose province the day before yesterday, in Giovenzano, the "Northern Committee" had made its first public appearance with Umberto Bossi, the "current" within the League which, with the former deputy and former secretary of the Lombard League Paolo Grimoldi and the MEP Angelo Ciocca, calls for a return to the origins, to the reasons of the North.
Numerous and historic exponents of the former Lega Nord are at the appointment. But this sort of Northern re-foundation seems to clash with years of evolution of Northern League history which has made Autonomy, whose roots are to be found precisely in Bossi's own revolutionary, disruptive battle, a national project. Which is in the Constitution and now to be implemented. And the League, despite having paid the price for its participation in Mario Draghi 's national emergency government in high terms, is certainly not in the same situation as the Democratic Party, despite having practically half of its consents.
The substantial difference is that Salvini's National League is in government, of which it is the second shareholder. And votes in politics are often weighed, not just counted, as Cuccia said for shares. And, as Bossi himself said when he returned to allies with Berlusconi and explained that he didn't care at all about having many votes, according to the opposition, if these didn't help to achieve his goal of federalism. And he preferred to lose support by returning to the government in exchange for the "Devolution", even if he later won in the North but was rejected in the national referendum.
Yesterday Salvini rejoiced after the congresses : "Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Pavia, Rovigo and Varese: happy and proud of how the League involves and gives the floor to thousands of militants who this weekend elected Roberta Sisti as secretaries , Laura Santin, Simone Bossi, Claudio Bariselli, Jacopo Vignati, Guglielmo Ferrarese and Andrea Cassani”. Among them there are Salvinians of strict observance such as in Varese, Pavia and other realities but also some, such as Sisti, considered closer to the requests of the "northern committee". “They will be able to team up, achieve new goals and strengthen our League even more,” says Salvini. Whose League is now irreversibly national.
The appointment is that of the Regionals in Lombardy and above all with the objectives, starting with the differentiated Autonomy, the projects also for the South, with the plan for the bridge over the Strait, for which an opening comes from Europe, of the secretary -Minister of Infrastructures (today in Brussels with his EU counterparts) in a centre-right government, with respect to which no alternatives are on the horizon.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/matteo-salvini-congressi-lega-nord/ on Mon, 05 Dec 2022 06:48:01 +0000.