How and why Salvini su Draghi has displaced the Democratic Party
All the latest moves of the Lega by Matteo Salvini
And now the mainstream certainly seems to discover how suddenly the Matteo Salvini of government. Suddenly passed from the fighting sweatshirt to the institutional blue suit with which yesterday he said he was at the disposal of Mario Draghi, "without vetoes", assuming, since "we are like in '45" also a government "with whom he sent me to trial for defending national borders ". That “they are the European ones, because Europe asks us to defend them”.
The Northern League "captain", who lets Draghi drop the card of a pre-yes, in the name above all of that policy of relaunch and development, of which his party has always been standard-bearer together with that of reducing the tax burden, and that would have found "harmony" with the prime minister in charge, stuns the Democratic Party and suddenly changes the narrative about his character.
Salvini seems to suddenly free himself from the image of the intercom call in Bologna and from that of the much derided Papeete in which even his underage son was targeted. Yet it is still the same Salvini.
Those who have known him as a reporter for fifteen years, following the Northern League of Umberto Bossi and the national one today, at the cost of getting criticism and teasing from colleagues from the mainstream, has tried several times to explain that the moves of Salvini, leader movement also very sui generis in yesterday's League, where as a professional journalist and great communicator he launched Radio Padania , he always follows his own logic in his unpredictable and autonomous moves.
Since he was the boy from Via Bellerio who went around the markets with a car full of buckets of glue, flyers, posters and got himself elected to the city council in Milan also by the good boys of Via della Spiga, arousing their sympathy.
Unpredictable even in the most controversial moves such as the famous intercom, certainly not a point of law, of Bologna. An exit not very happy but to stir up the waters in the swamp of the drug drama, a little in the manner of the Bossi of the golden times.
And Papeete himself? Beyond the criminalized iconography, as we wrote close to that turbulent August 15th that brought down the Count 1, Salvini was clear that he wanted elections. But probably by dropping the yellow-green or yellow-blue "sovereign" executive just at an unexpected moment, while parliament had already "closed" for summer holidays, he challenged "General August", perhaps putting a plan b into account. And that is that even without elections he would still have forced his opponents to set up a government so reclusive that it would not last long. Those weren't Covid times yet.
But the facts, not even two years later, have now proved him right. The intercom was certainly not on the point of law and did not explain in a very happy way that request for full powers, to which Matteo Renzi himself has always nailed him to justify the yellow-red government set up in a nutshell. By "full powers" in a meeting held in Pescara and not at Papeete Salvini he meant the need for greater decision-making power of the institutions and of the premier, a subject that has been debated for thirty years.
And in any case, a few days later Salvini came to Umbria, small but significant because it had been a real former red fort for 60 years, where he managed to establish a dialogue with important bands of the local bourgeoisie but also with the people of the former PCI who contributed to the overwhelming victory of the Northern League president Donatella Tesei. The League with the center-right governs 16 Regions out of 20.
But so far Salvini has certainly not helped his placement in Europe with the nationalists of Marine Le Pen and the German extremist formation Afd . So much so that the number two Northern League player Giancarlo Giorgetti has repeatedly wished, even a few months ago in Catania, for the EU to approach the EPP, the same EPP "where Orban is also", underlined Giorgetti, according to whom precisely because the Italy counts more and more “it must stay in the rooms where it decides to beat its fists”.
Yesterday after the interview with Draghi the word "Europe" about the need to protect the borders from uncontrolled immigration, "as France and Germany do", appeared several times in Salvini's words. Recommended by Giorgetti himself, by the founder of the center-right Silvio Berlusconi? In the end, probably only by himself. Certainly, it is confirmed by the facts that Salvini who also yesterday proudly reiterated "I make the synthesis in the League".
It is true that he listens a lot to the various souls of a party, which he led to the "miracle" of being the first national political force (based on elections after the political and polls), where Bocconi Giorgetti, Massimo Garavaglia, 'engineer Dario Galli former deputy minister al Mise, former president of the Province of Varese, and governors Luca Zaia and Massimiliano Fedriga coexist with the so-called "Eurosceptics" such as economists Alberto Bagnai, head of economics, and Claudio Borghi, former president of the Montecitorio Budget Commission . But, as they have pointed out several times in the same party, in the end he always decides for himself. Once to the reporter an affectionately ironic and even a little amused Giorgetti said: “I talk to him, he listens a lot and in the end he does as he likes….”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-e-perche-salvini-su-draghi-ha-spiazzato-il-pd/ on Sun, 07 Feb 2021 07:32:14 +0000.