How the center-right regroups on Rome and Turin
The point of the situation on the center-right struggling with the candidacies in the main cities that will go to the vote. Paola Sacchi's note
Net of the debate on the hypothesis of federation, in the end the center-right finds the square on the candidacies for mayor of Rome and Turin, so far.
These technical tests, in the field and not in media debates, could already be defined as "federation", in the concrete sense of strengthening unity on choices.
It is a first important sign that the coalition is rapidly regrouping around the crucial autumn appointments, when the largest cities will go to vote, starting with the capital.
The choice of Giorgia Meloni passes through Rome, the first to propose the name of the administrative lawyer Enrico Michetti.
And in Turin the center-right chooses the other civic candidate, the entrepreneur Paolo Damilano .
But the name of the magistrate Simonetta Matone was also chosen for the capital, in what Matteo Salvini is keen to define "team candidacies", in a ticket as prosindaco, a name on which the League's approval was expressed in particular (Salvini l 'he heard several times) and of Forza Italia who with Antonio Tajani observes: “This ticket is the solution to win”. To “win in the first round”, Salvini throws the ball forward.
The first to emerge from the top was Meloni who immediately underlined the rediscovered unity: "The center-right is compact, full harmony, let's go".
And this in the afternoon of a day, which had seen aftermath of sparks on the Copasir question, the presidency of which was elected FDI senator Adolfo Urso, between Lega and Meloni's party that won his battle.
However, the crux of Milan's candidacy remains on the high seas for the center-right. And it is evident that the issue of the physiological internal competition for the leadership of the coalition remains all in the background and is seen as the basis of the debate that animates the theme of the federation of the center-right government, but yesterday put in the background.
It is clear that the autumn administrative meetings will be the first appointment in which Salvini and Meloni will compete on the field, no longer in a virtual way with the polls.
But to objectively exercise a weight also in the internal "derby" between the center-right of the government and the center-right of the opposition will be the same results achieved by the Draghi government between now and autumn.
This is the reasoning of a long-time Northern League player like the deputy Luca Paolini: "The League in entering the government has taken a strong responsibility, but in the end, in the face of the results that are already coming and even more will arrive, I believe that the voters will acknowledge us instead of having said to Meloni ”.
But in the meantime, on the first major electoral date, the center-right regrouped yesterday.
While inevitably, as for an old automatism, it was the center left to start discussing and dividing over federations or not, things on which the copyright is to be recognized.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-il-centrodestra-si-ricompatta-su-roma-e-torino/ on Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:45:55 +0000.