I’ll tell you about the faults of the center-right in Rome and Turin
The center-right after the elections in Rome and Turin will have to deal with the strengthening of a left which, however, should also reflect on the growing crisis of representativeness. The Scratches of Damato
Not to be irreverent, but that "all is accomplished" of Jesus Christ on the cross may well be repeated by the center-right in the face of the results of the ballots in Rome and Turin. Where the no longer Berlusconian traction coalition has reaped what it sowed with weak candidacies and ruined even more with an electoral campaign that could not have been conducted worse between the first and second round of these administrative rounds of 2021. That of Trieste, where the outgoing center-right mayor has been painstakingly confirmed, remains a meager consolation.
In spite of Alessandra Ghisleri's conviction that the riots of 9 October in Rome – with the assault of the Forzanovisti on the national headquarters of the CGIL and all the hesitations and contradictions of the reactions of the Northern League and Giorgia Meloni's brothers of Italy – were not destined to influence the Capitoline runoff, I think they had a weight and how.
The straw that broke the pot of indifference, translated into the record of abstention, was in my opinion the restitution of the historic Roman square of San Giovann i on the left. The center-right, which had managed to snatch it from him in recent years, could well have joined with conviction and dignity the solidarity that the CGIL deserved. But to which even Silvio Berlusconi, after having begun to put the hyphen between the center and the right, felt that a phone call could be enough.
Now the center-right will have to deal with the objective of strengthening a left which, however, should also reflect on the growing crisis of representativeness. It was a victory, certainly, but not the "triumph" even boasted by the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta, forgetting that he was elected in Siena on 4 October with a turnout well below the even frightening 40 percent or a little more than the Romans who went to vote to choose the mayor.
Once the hangover of the Piddino secretary has ceased, the left in government will immediately have to deal with the reality to which the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, fortunately extraneous to the competition that has just ended, will call it back with the financial deadlines and the busy schedule of reforms connected to the plan of the recovery funded by the European Union. Let's not talk about the troubles of the grillini destined to affect those who pursue them as allies.
Unfortunately it cannot be said that, once this electoral chapter is closed, apart from the institutional deadline of February, when Parliament will have to unravel the quirinal knot for the expiry of Sergio Mattarella's mandate, politics will be able to give itself a respite. No. Matteo Salvini, also defeated in Varese, has already booked for the electoral campaign of next year's administrative offices. But 2022, even if we were to avoid the early dissolution imagined by many around the corner, will still be the last year of the legislature: as such the most difficult of all, in which the one that the economy failed to chair the Council Carlo Cottarelli has just defined the "assault on diligence" of spending. There will be little to be happy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/centrodestra-roma-torino/ on Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:40:03 +0000.