The oppositions will smash each other in the regionals
What happens in the opposition to the Meloni government in view of the regional elections in Lombardy and Lazio. Paola Sacchi's note
Now Matteo Renzi, a few days after the vote , says it openly: "It is clear that Giuseppe Conte wants to let the right win". The center-left is already discussing the possible electoral defeat in Lazio, which would be the most burning, and in Lombardy. And we can already glimpse the subsequent canvas of accusations and rebounds between the "third pole", Pd and Five Stars.
The IV leader seems to be putting his hands ahead of an announced defeat right now, attacking the pentastellato leader who in Lazio, governed by the center-left with the Five Stars, wanted to go on his own, with one of his candidates and in Lombardy instead, where the pentastellati are less relevant, he allied himself with the Pd, "to give him the coup de grace", attacks Renzi. Who is tranchant on the Democratic Party: "Whoever wins in the primaries will do better than Enrico Letta".
While the media spotlights are above all focused on the center-right, with background focused on the forecasts relating to the percentages of consensus in the coalition, on the preventive search for internal frictions in the event FdI were to win "too much" to the detriment of the Lega and FI, in the center-left there is already a clash polls not yet open.
Goffredo Bettini himself, who had sung Conte's praises as a progressive leader, now accuses him of having "humiliated the Democratic Party". But, in the event of a victory for the centre-right both in Lombardy with Attilio Fontana and in Lazio with Francesco Rocca, as the latest polls show, a problem will also arise for the "third pole" and its plan to federate Renziana IV and Action of Carlo Calenda who support the dem Alessio D'Amato in Lazio.
The problem could arise even more in Lombardy where the "terzopolisti" support Letizia Moratti. The Northern League governor Fontana is given a lot of attention both to the former regional councilor and former mayor of Milan, once in the center-right, and to the candidate of the Democratic Party allied with the Five Stars, Pierfrancesco Majorino yesterday harshly attacked by the blue governor Roberto Occhiuto for "unhappy words on Calabria".
If the center-right wins, practicing Lombardy will re-determine the same outcome as the Policies of 25 September for a "third pole" that would remain at the crossroads, now waiting for the 2024 Europeans, in the hope of some crack in the government coalition.
But Silvio Berlusconi, who has always, since the 2016 referendum, never thought of lend himself to Renzi's manoeuvres, was more than clear: “They will never be able to divide us. They have not succeeded for 30 years, since I founded the centre-right”. And going to Milan the other night on stage with the premier and president of FdI Giorgia Meloni and the deputy premier, minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, with Maurizio Lupi leader of "Noi Moderati", he also plastically confirmed with its very presence the cohesion of the coalition.
And so Salvini who yesterday both on TG5 and at the end of the electoral campaign in Lazio with Rocca and the ministers of the League relaunched: "We will govern 5 years plus 5". Each force of the plural coalition is physiological then that in the three-pronged scheme of the Policies it emphasizes its own role and identity. But even if the result were to be more or less confirmed as in September, with FdI having already doubled the allies even in the North, those internal fibrillations amplified and feared by the opponents do not seem to be in sight. Even if now there will already be a de facto judgment on the 100 days of government. As the premier himself said. And the road to the executive is not all rosy. All the more so because it has been under siege by pressure above all from the media which, however, does not seem to be reflected in the real country. But the center-right remains very cautious about turnout at the polls. Salvini each time emphasizes the fact that "the media and TV give little information about these elections, not surprisingly now that the left is in difficulty".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/opposizioni-elezioni-regionali-lombardia-lazio/ on Thu, 09 Feb 2023 06:21:24 +0000.