The centre-right’s Campo largo crushes the Pd and M5s in Basilicata
Facts and comments on the elections in Basilicata. Paola Sacchi's note
An unexpected victory in Sardinia , mainly due to an own goal from the centre-right, does not make a summer for the wide field. What puts a damper on the hopes of the left in this round of regional elections is the overwhelming victory of the united centre-right in Basilicata.
Bitter Lucanian for the left. The centre-right has made the wide camp even thinner even more, also orphaned by Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva and Carlo Calenda's Azione who sided with the forces of the government majority around Vito Bardi (FI) whose opponent Piero is still in the process of counting Marrese, around 34 percent, offered his congratulations, given the now unbridgeable gap with the reconfirmed governor who was around 58 percent (56.6% the final result).
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, president of FdI, rejoices on social media where she recalls that "our policies have been rewarded". But it is above all Forza Italia that is rejoicing, which until last night had returned to double figures and which had fought so hard for Bardi's confirmation after the Sardinian defeat. “Forza Italia has made the difference”, underlines Maurizio Gasparri, leader of the Italian group SL Senate. Antonio Tajani, Italian secretary, deputy prime minister and foreign minister: "A great result for Forza Italia, a victory for the united centre-right." Meloni also underlines the victory of coalition unity. FdI is the first party and, as the group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti recalls, "it has tripled the consensus".
But the result is also good for the League. Sources on Via Bellerio speak of "yet another major success of the united centre-right". And if for Matteo Salvini that approximately 7 percent of the first exit polls were confirmed it would be a clear response to those who criticize his National League model from within and to the detractors of the Autonomy in the South. Salvini, deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport, defines it as "another overwhelming victory for the centre-right as always united and compact, with the confirmation of President Bardi". But, he adds, "don't worry, little will be said about it: certain newspapers live and clamor in their left-wing 'bubble', but then the citizens vote for something else!".
The Lucanian victory sounds, as Bardi himself says, a clear and clear response "to the sad spectacle of the left". Basilicata obscures the Scurati case, i.e. yet another attempt to demonize the center-right for April 25th, this year in particular against Prime Minister Meloni. Pd, shaken by the internal divisions that forced Elly Schlein to withdraw her name from the symbol at the European elections, and Five Star, fighting each other for the hegemony of an increasingly narrow field, will once again try to accuse Meloni and the center-right of fascism, who died 80 years ago, an expedient to throw them into chaos and obscure their profound crisis of alternative ideas and proposals. But as Basilicata also confirms, the clear majority of Italians do not follow these ghosts.
In the end Bardi confirms himself as governor with 56.63, Marrese stops at 42.16. The list with the most votes in the Lucanian regional elections is that of Fratelli d'Italia, which obtained 17.39% and 4 seats in the Council, followed by the Democratic Party with 13.87% (2 seats). The 5S Movement collapses to 7th. In the centre-right Forza Italia is in second place with 13.01% of the votes (3 seats), the League is third with 7.81% (2 seats). A result, the Northern League one, which was not at all a given in the Deep South. The League thanks the "more than 20,000 voters who chose it and thanks to which it surpassed the 5 stars and Calenda".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/elezioni-basilicata-centrodestra-risultati/ on Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:34:14 +0000.