How the center-right tries to relaunch itself
All roses and flowers in the center-right? Certainly not. The differences remain, the reflection to be done is profound. But it is a fact that yesterday it reappeared, at least plastically, as a coalition. Paola Sacchi's note
The key phrase of the joint note at the end of yesterday's summit three, after months, between Silvio Berlusconi, Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini is no to proportional. These are not political formulas, the proportional would be the passe partout of the true disarticulation of the center-right, a coalition certainly dented by the results of the Administrations. These results, however, do not prevent it, as Stefano Folli clearly observed yesterday in Repubblica , from resuming its path as a liberal and conservative coalition.
The facts, moreover, say that the same offensive unleashed by the left, on the media level, with the "fascism" of political opponents, up to the red square in full election silence last Saturday, in Rome, in S. Giovanni, in fact re-bipolarized the political debate.
Heterogenesis of the goals for the Olive tree, so far very restricted both for victory with a high rate of abstention and for composition, Pd, lefts, Five Stars? Probably not.
If it is true that the leader of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, legitimately aspires, as he himself seemed not to exclude in recent days in an interview with Corriere della Sera , to return to the helm of Palazzo Chigi, he would need a bipolar scheme. Unless … An expert long-time observer of dem things not by chance points out: "The proportional is more a thing for newspapers, a well-founded fear of forces like the League above all, because they are strong in the colleges, as they are still very strong rooted, especially in the North, on the territory, but it is also a fear of the Brothers of Italy ”. Our interlocutor adds significantly: “There is one but: the return to the true proportional system would only be possible if Salvini left the government majority and created the Italian-style formula“ Ursula ”. But Salvini does not go out ”.
Perhaps, this is why in these post-electoral hours, Letta has no longer been heard inviting the leader of the League to leave. In all this, the centrists of Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda remain crushed. The latter, who did not go to the ballot in Rome, reacts immediately irritated to the joint note of the center-right. And he accuses the Cav of having "succumbed to the sovereignists".
The so-called center is a project that will remain standing, of course. But those who know Silvio Berlusconi well, even at the age of 85, do not see it exactly right to make, rather brutally, the bearer of votes for centrist projects of others.
Certainly Forza Italia, who is the Knight, could play a role in the role of needle of the balance in a proportional framework, no longer bipolar, but equally certainly that role its founder, who is also the founder of the center-right, would want it all for himself. And in the end why having to spend its economic, financial, media or important international relations power, as Salvini himself has always recognized him, a sort of variable independent of the numbers of FI, to risk joining Renzi and Calenda? Isn't it better to still exercise the role of federator in “his home”?
But, beyond this, the Cav was born with the bipolarity, indeed, it founded it. And he probably sniffs the air again. While remaining the big unknown of the voters left at home. But did they really stay at home because there are “sovereignists”, ugly, dirty and bad according to the mainstream? Or perhaps because, as Daniele Capezzone, a columnist for La Verità clearly wrote, in his newbook "Per Una Nuova Destra" (Piemme edizioni), they were not presented with a clear and precise offer on the reduction of the tax burden, work, de-bureaucratization? And this in defense of those popular classes, "the forgotten of the left", and of the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie not protected by the state?
Salvini yesterday evening after the three-way summit at lunch at Villa Grande, the new Roman residence-office of the Cav, complete with Berlusconian iconography, emphasized his "hope" that now the center-right (therefore that of government and opposition ) united should expose premier Mario Draghi to these requests that affect real Italy, deep Italy, "the united center-right is, indeed, an added value for Draghi and his government".
"There was no talk of leadership," he stressed. And Meloni just the other day had significantly said that he will not ask the allies to leave the national emergency executive. So it is called and for this purpose the Draghi government was born.
All roses and flowers in the center-right? Certainly not. The differences remain, the reflection to be done is profound. But it is a fact that yesterday it reappeared, at least plastically, as a coalition.
The path is long and with obstacles. First appointment the election of the Head of State, in a handful of months, practically tomorrow in politics. And the unity of the center-right on the appointment for the race to the Hill, after the no to the proportional above all of Berlusconi, which makes the allies breathe a sigh of relief, while remaining cautious, is the other political point, consequential of the joint note.
Berlusconi candidate for the Quirinale? Or maybe Draghi himself, but with a role of the Cav and the center-right as king maker? However no longer a name imposed by the left. The game is just beginning. And perhaps a small piece of this was also the election, at the end by acclamation, after a heated controversy between the Azzurri, between the government wing and the others – with the same minister Maria Stella Gelmimi, who would have used very controversial words according to press agencies – by Paolo Barelli. Long-term deputy, considered very close to the national coordinator and vice president of FI Antonio Tajani, considered the most united, after of course Berlusconi, with the allies of the Lega and FdI.
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-cerca-di-rilanciarsi/ on Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:56:02 +0000.