What is stirring in the center-right
After Berlusconi's sentences about the "leader" Salvini, Meloni makes the controversy re-explode in the center-right. Paola Sacchi's note
After a few days of silence, Giorgia Meloni's thrust arrives to revive the waters of the center-right. The president of the Brothers of Italy to Silvio Berlusconi, after the words of recognition to Matteo Salvini, says: "The leaders are not decided at a table, thank God the Italians decide them". Then, he launches a suspicion : "The purpose of Lega and Forza Italia is to hold me back?". An admission: that sentence in which the Cav recognizes Salvini to be "the only true, sincere leader" he would not have expected.
In short, in the center-right the hard controversy re-explodes, with tones that have not been remembered from the days of the Quirinale. And this with the administrative deadline ahead, with the Regionals in Sicily in the lead. As we had already anticipated, the president of Fratelli d'Italia strenuously defends the reconfirmation of the outgoing president Nello Musumeci, as well as in Verona that of the outgoing mayor Federico Sboarina, recalling the principle according to which the outgoing are reconfirmed. He doesn't send her to say “Giorgia”, in the online interview, a long direct line with Il Messaggero . While still (at least until late yesterday evening) there is not even a date on the horizon when the center-right could bring together its leaders in a summit.
In Sicily, where Salvini launched the "First Italy" list, appreciated by Gianfranco Micciché, because in this way "it will help us bring civics and civil society", there are also different nuances in Forza Italia itself, where there are those who say that instead Marcello Dell'Utri would prefer the reconfirmation of Musumeci.
But the point is: where is the center-right going? Probably, at least for the administrative authorities, the puzzle will hardly come together again. But the leadership "war" that shakes the center-right, to the sound of polls, is really the right way for a coalition which, albeit already divided by the governmental choice of FI and Lega on the one hand and of the FdI on the other, in fund on content continues to have, albeit with different nuances, many key points in common? And above all, how will the coalition, given by all the polls clearly superior to the left, present itself to the Politics of 2023?
It is evident that the "non-marriage", as Meloni dismisses it, between Berlusconi and Salvini in fact cements what was once called "the axis of the North", between FI and the League, even though Salvini's League has long been national. But, above all, the point for Berlusconi and Salvini, the center-right of the government, seems to be to counter the new bipolarism that would like to redesign the Democratic Party on the basis of Putin's war on Ukraine: on the one hand Enrico Letta on the other Giorgia Meloni, represented like the two “atlantist” opposites. While, as the leader of the Lega Riccardo Molinari recalled yesterday in the Chamber, "it is tedious to have daily lessons in Atlanticism and Europeanism" from a party where there are "the heirs of a political tradition that perhaps in the past some consolidated relationship with the The Soviet Union had it ”.
So, no to the attempt to redesign a bipolarity so that everything would be to the advantage of the Democratic Party, with an interpretation of the war in Ukraine bent on forcing the Italian political framework. While, in a parliament, which Mario Draghi thanked for his support in view of today's European Council, Senator Maurizio Gasparri, a leading exponent of Forza Italia, warns: “Draghi will be judged on the major issues”. Starting with the war in Ukraine, where however Gasparri sees "too many Biden and few Kissingers around the world".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giorgia-meloni-centrodestra/ on Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:44:09 +0000.