How can the center-right win well
The center-right electorate is much more contiguous than that of the opposing camp or camps. Paola Sacchi's note
Giorgia Meloni described on the one hand as “draghized” and therefore considered reliable; Matteo Salvini pointed out as “the unpresentable”, in a sort of Northern League history of the last few years presented as a kind of criminal novel. But the now somewhat repetitive plot of the mainstream media is always ready to lash out even against both of Silvio Berlusconi's allies, described as being overtaken by third-party newism.
Meloni, in one of his crowded rallies, said he no longer read the newspapers. In short, the Thatcher method. But the three-pronged electoral campaign agreed by the center-right, with an internal competition established by the same rules of the agreement between the leaders, is still relatively "long", perhaps too long compared to that one day scheduled to vote. Only on Sunday and not also on Monday morning, as has mostly happened. And this in the face of the risk of abstention.
In certain media narratives, we proceed according to the scheme according to which there would be practically only one winner of the center-right. With allies reduced lily. Practically a picture that would do only damage to Meloni, if she were the premier. Because even that transversal colossus that was the DC already kept them at bay with difficulty. And, in any case, in such a combined framework, beyond the clear and sincere good intentions, it would be difficult to ensure that "cohesive and solid" government that Meloni envisaged for "responsibility" towards the country. By stating clearly: “I am interested in beating opponents, not allies”.
Each center-right party has a precise identity, consolidated by now over years of common government. On a national level, in the Regions and in the Municipalities, in an amalgamation certainly more successful than in a frayed center-left, with a Pd in the center between the challenge of the pentastellated leader Giuseppe Conte from the left flank and Carlo Calenda with Matteo Renzi from the right flank.
But, in any case, even for the center-right, if the challenge, even if established by the same rules, risks appearing, despite the will of the leaders, more internal than external, it could eventually lead to problems.
We still remember the quarrels and frictions of the governments of the Olive tree and the Union of prodian memory, where then the DS ex PDS, despite being the pivot, or the majority party within the coalition, debated with the Margherita (later merged with them in the Democratic Party) and minor allies to establish an internal primacy. And certainly the center-right has no desire to imitate them, obviously not in the diametrically opposed contents, but in the game scheme. Also because the center-right electorate is much more contiguous than that of the opposing camp or camps.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/centrodestra/ on Mon, 12 Sep 2022 05:17:16 +0000.