The (blue) challenges of Salvini’s League
What was heard during the demonstration of the League, without party symbols, yesterday afternoon in Rome, in Piazza della Bocca della Verità
Pastel green that fades to turquoise and then light blue. The sovereign blue takes a back seat. Even the chromatic scale of the Lega demonstration, without party symbols, yesterday afternoon in Rome, in Piazza della Bocca della Verità, appears as a stage in those technical tests that Matteo Salvini is doing towards his proposal for a federation with Forza Italia, the center-right of the government.
But the Northern League leader relaunches and talks about the unity of the entire coalition. An invitation that sounds also addressed to Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy. As a “big head” he hopes for “a united, concrete, efficient center-right”. Salvini has ecumenical tones, he invites "to put aside jealousies and divisions". However, he claims the choice of joining the government: "For us, Italy always comes before party interests".
After all, "Italy first, free, beautiful, fair" is the slogan of the event presented by Hoara Borselli and Nicola Porro. The tones of the Northern League leader are heated only in two steps: a harsh response to the "firm reaction" of the Anm against the referendums on justice, for which the League will collect signatures with the Radicals from 2 July (on stage there is also the radical secretary, Maurizio Turco, for the first time at a Northern League demonstration) and then the request for a stop "to the landing of thousands of illegal immigrants, while we will also be asked for the green pass to go to the theater".
In this passage, Salvini's struggle returns, but he fully confirms the choice to stay in government. And that indeed, with the participation of the representatives of the categories, who thank him, underlines the important role that the League had for the results of the reopening.
As for justice, the tones rise without mentioning the Anm: "The referendums are an expression of democracy, freedom, woe to those who threaten the Italians who are the only masters of this land". The Turkish radical also asked for the intervention of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
But the square (for the League of 5000 people) of Bocca della Verità, under a scorching heat – that with the Northern League governors (from the Lombard Attilio Fontana, to the Friulian Massimiliano Fedriga, president of the State-Regions Conference, the Calabrian Antonino Spirlì, the president del Trentino Maurizio Fugatti) also welcomes Enrico Michetti's candidate ticket to Rome with Simonetta Matone – it has no harsh slogans.
It shows itself in harmony with those pastel colors, up to light blue. The color that recalls Forza Italia. Simonetta Matone sends a greeting from the stage to Silvio Berlusconi. Salvini, who should see Cav today, insists on his proposal for a federation. Even if he prefers to speak of a “united, concrete, efficient center-right”. A third way with respect to the "single party" with which he had relaunched Berlusconi?
But, beyond the containers, the emphasis was placed by Salvini on the contents. And if in Rome Michetti, with Matone, wins, it is clear that the result will also benefit Giorgia Meloni who was the first to choose the administrative lawyer with considerable insistence.
It is a fact, however, that in the face of a center-right that discusses internally, is renewed, is in movement, the left appears to be harnessed, grappling with the ally Five Stars, with whom in many cases these administrative offices do not find the square .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-sfide-azzurrine-della-lega-di-salvini/ on Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:13:32 +0000.