Who wants to untie the League?
What you read and what you don't read in newspapers (even center-right ones) about Salvini's League. Paola Sacchi's italics
Maybe it's due to the fact that these days we go to bed early in the evening and even reluctantly – since we are still hospitalized to get ourselves back in shape after a routine orthopedic operation – but, we confess, last night we were put back to bed by very nice nurses who asked us what we had particular pains, because we appeared a little more "annoyed" than usual. Well, I couldn't explain to them that I had just learned, after reading the newspapers of the last two or three days, that Matteo Salvini is basically accused of having some responsibility also for the Erba massacre.
Obviously a paradox is used to convey the idea of the almost unanimous media aggression taking place against the leader of the League, deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport. Almost unanimous because not only the usual left-wing media took to the field against him, treated as a sort of Olindo of the former Northern League. Practically everyone, starting from the Gedi Group with La Repubblica , which solicited the signatures of leading editorialists who were distressed (even them!) by the fact that Salvini-Olindo had killed everything that remained of the corporate name of the Northern League.
And, again against Salvini, the same Repubblica interviewed one of the co-founders of the Lombard League with Umberto Bossi, Giuseppe Leoni, who called him an "idiot" and a "fascist". But it didn't end here. A phrase from the same leader of the League group in the Chamber, Riccardo Molinari, was also used against Salvini in an interview a few days ago with Libero Quotidiano . Molinari, who vigorously defends his leader, also launches a clear accusation against FdI regarding the candidatures for the Regional elections, which particularly focus on the third term issue, i.e. the re-nomination of Luca Zaia in Veneto. These accusations, however, disappear from the headlines, which do not indicate the object – that is, the prime minister's party, usually treated with more than velvet gloves – against which they are launched.
And so, in the title of Libero a sentence appears amplified – reported without being too much argued – on the exhortation that Molinari himself makes to the entire party, without directly calling the leader into question, to move forward with greater clarity along the line that for the League must remain that of the defense of entrepreneurs, VAT numbers etc. Point. The phrase, although reported too briefly and concisely to be part of the title, appears almost thrown out only in one of the answers after half the interview. And instead it was amplified by directly calling Salvini into question in the headline and then, predictably, it was reported in a cascade by the left-wing media, who dismissed it as a real attack by Riccardo Molinari on Salvini. “It's the press, beauty”, one could say with a famous phrase. Salvini, like all leaders, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the other Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, to stop at the centre-right, may also have made mistakes, no one is perfect. Let alone in politics. But the fact that even a center-right newspaper finds itself using a somewhat Rep -style treatment to him with the game of headlines is something that has never been seen before for any leader of the coalition currently in government.
In all of this, obviously the very small detail that Salvini saved the League from a more than real risk of extinction, from 3%, almost 4%, now towards 2% in the polls, disappears. A situation with paradoxical aspects, such as the media treatment given to him, which made an editorial in defense of Salvini himself by Alessandro Sallusti, director of "Il Giornale", also of the triad owned by the Angeluccis with Libero , appear as a somewhat exceptional event and Il Tempo , but remained 30% owned by Berlusconi. Here, Sallusti reiterates something that has been obvious for some time, even for a child: they are trying once again to use the League to undermine the entire center-right. A sport that has now been going on for almost 30 years.
Once they even succeeded, when Umberto Bossi pulled the plug on Berlusconi one. Which, in our small way, given the increasingly massive attacks on the "Captain", we had also written a few days before Sallusti. But, judging by the clash taking place in the centre-right – with FdI and FI lined up against the League over Zaia's re-nomination in Veneto, because he is guilty of being one of the people with over 70% of the votes – it seems that this elementary truth is sometimes ignored account in the same center-right. Which until proven otherwise, based on the electoral numbers of the Politicians and not the polls, remains a three-pronged coalition, where the majority party has not broken through to 30% and the other two, although much reduced, remain decisive. With Salvini's League which, as the second center-right party, has almost a hundred parliamentarians.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-vuole-slegare-la-lega/ on Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:56:05 +0000.