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Nobody believes in rudeness. In the agreed move, few. So? In the center-right, the toto-interpretations of the last play of Giancarlo Giorgetti, a strong man of the League for many seasons, an economist who can also be passed in Europe, undersecretary of the Palazzo Chigi in Count I where Matteo Salvini occupied the Viminale, for months in the cold. with their leader. In fact, after long silences that allowed us to understand without saying it, last night at a rally in Vittuone, a town of 9 thousand inhabitants south of Milan, Giorgetti snapped: “I am going to vote with conviction in referendum No. Un simple court of parliamentarians in the absence of other reforms is unthinkable. ” A “result to avoid” not only “because it would give unlimited power to the party secretariats” but above all in an anti-government key: “It would be a favor to a government in difficulties, incapable of managing the economic reaction to the Italian system in the last months and in obvious shame at the next, which will be very hard. Conte’s government is inadequate. And that is why I will also vote No. ‘”A political objective to the nth degree, almost an attempt to push, while the constitutional dictates fades into the background.
Words reported by Ticino News and reached the press agencies just as Salvini, weakened by a morning of protests in Campania and with the prospect of meeting others at night in the center of Naples, rhetorically wondered “if it is still possible to oppose in this country”. “So, the number two of the Carroccio wisely chose the date, close to the vote, for maramaldizzare? Despite the distance of recent times, and the desertion to the Rimini summer party, the scenario is not very plausible . “Giorgetti is the free pitcher. At this stage he does not agree with Salvini,” admits a Major League Baseball player “But he knows him so well that he knows what can bother him and what not.” And the No to the referendum, widely shared among your voters, it certainly falls into the second category.
After all, Claudio Borghi, the economic advisor to “Matteo” who was the first to break with the party line, reiterates that he has received neither warning nor criticism. And then he was followed by two great names like Lorenzo Fontana and Andrea Crippa, by Alberto Bagnai, by the Lombard secretary Paolo Grimoldi, by deputy Massimiliano Capitanio. It is rumored, not since today, that the former minister, now senator, Gian Marco Centinaio, and even the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia would be against the court of the parliamentarians sic et simpliciter. But he stays away from containment, like Roberto Calderoli. And there are those from the center-right who read Giorgetti’s departure from an internal perspective as well: “Giancarlo has always played on horseback and a half. That is why he remained in the saddle from Bossi to Maroni to Salvini. Now, he sends signals to Zaia: he distances himself from Matteo without upsetting him. It’s a smart plan ”.
The signals, however, will reach the Northern League electorate first. That I could incorporate them. The latest polls on the referendum gave a Yes between 66 and 71% compared to a No between 29 and 34%. Among the Lega’s base, Nando Pagnoncelli’s survey of September 4 for the “Corriere della Sera” placed the Yes at 64% and the No at 36%. Not bad for a party that the leader has witnessed a “coherent” Yes (with the votes cast in Parliament during the alliance with the Cinquestelle) but lukewarm: “We are not the owners of the hearts and souls of the Italians who will vote”, “We are not a barracks.” We are not in the freedom of vote that Silvio Berlusconi had defended for Forza Italia, but we are close to it. Also because in social networks and in the sections of the territory a large part of the base does not digest the “gift” to the grillini. “If the No wins, the two ruling souls go on a collision course and the game is over,” warms a Padan MP.
Yes: but doesn’t he have any realistic hope of winning? “El No is not going to win – interrupts Gaetano Quagliariello, senator who has recently left the Forza Italia group to form a component of the mixed together with the men of the pro-Ligurian League governor Giovanni Toti – But a reformer is better than a populist yes “. The former “essay” of the reform commission commissioned by President Giorgio Napolitano explains: “I will vote Yes because representative democracy does not work that way and I do not want to leave the scepter of change in the hands of the Cinquestelle. But I’d rather win 60-40 than 98 to zero. If we close the gap, the day after the referendum a transversal reform strategy can be launched. That’s why Giorgetti’s move didn’t upset me. And from this point of view, I don’t think the Lega will regret it either ”.
The former undersecretary of Palazzo Chigi, then, would have been the point man to shake up the base. Reduce the gap. Put in difficulty (a little) the Cinquestelle of Luigi Di Maio and Giuseppe Conte, whom Salvini considers responsible, politically speaking, for all their problems. The shoulder is perhaps a dream, but a balm for the gloomy mood these days.
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