Regional elections 2020, Tuscany decides everything: it is the Ohio of Italy – Politics

“Even if fear will have more arguments, you choose the hope“There could not have been a more apt phrase to wait, with an extra pin of confidence, from the Bastiani fortress of P.S, something’s wrong. The sentence of Seneca elected by the mayor of Florence, Darius Nardella, writing his last appeal to fellow citizens and Tuscans to shout once again that “the winning model is from our Region.” The problem is that this time the desert is not of the Tartars. There really is someone on the horizon. the center right is storming the Tuscan fortress. It never happened, but did not even imagine, in 50 years of history. From 1970 until today, via di filata, a series of presidents of the Region with the left (PCI) and then the center-left.

Regional 2020: how to vote

And last night, as evidence of the warning, they were there two full squares in the historic center of Florence where the coalitions wanted to show their strength and values. Listen to the center-right with the big names (Salvini, Meloni, Tajani plus the civic list of Tuscany) young and old, ordinary people. A tide of tricolor. All standing for Berlusconi’s message, sing “Giorgia, Giorgia”, applause for “Matteo we are with you”. From the Democratic Party and members, the climate is more ordered by anti-Covid regulations (all seated) with symbols of the American primaries (Bruce Springsteen as the soundtrack) and hugs with the previous Tuscan governors in the front row. From the series “We are history”.

Guide to the referendum

Tuscany is not just an administrative vote for which five years ago more than half of the voters preferred to stay at home. This time we lookto turn off to win an extra vote because under the banner of victory you could get close neighbors. Really a photo finish. So that Susanna Ceccardi, presidential candidate of the center-right, opponent of Eugenio GianiTuscany’s leading candidate for the center-left accuses the Democratic Party of becoming a tour operator “renting coaches to take the elderly to vote.” But who would have thought that the fate of Tuscany would be intertwined with that of the national government, in the destiny of the nazarene, to the balance between Salvini and Meloni? Very few. Also because, according to analysts, Giani started with a 8-10 point lead last February, before the closure. Gnawed at by the ‘lioness of Cascina’ or dispersed by the center-left coalition (from the ecological left to the Renziano center) that woke up from lethargy only after August 15. Therefore, the focus is on Tuscany.

The attack on historical power also ended in the pages of the Financial times as an example of a possible Italian political transformation. The firefighters scattered among the government forces are not enough to say “the regional vote will not affect” because everyone knows that Monday night could be the darkest tunnel for the Democratic Party. “All those responsible, no one backs down. You win or you lose all together“It is repeated from dem headquarters in Florence. The accounts are made at the end. Everyone is involved. Renzi pulled out claw and slogans, the Democratic Party rang the bells and went door to door like when the PCI took the Unit from house to house on Sunday morning and the parish priest was angry.

Calls for a separate vote fell on deaf ears. First of all the 5 star movement (“We will fight until the next day” repeats Irene Galletti, candidate for president grillina) and Toscana on the left (6% in the last regional). A defeat in Tuscany would give life to the OPA over the national secretariat and wipe out the local summit (more ex Renziano than Gypsy). He would have the options and strategies of the center-left process: Renzi would also end up on the bench because he himself gave Giani the first blessing. “If I have to bet twenty euros, I will bet on Eugenio again,” he says in Florence’s Piazza Santissima Annunziata. Lorenzo Becattini, coordinator of the Tuscan Democratic Party secretariat as he takes the stage for Giani’s final meeting. “Our people will not betray us.” Susanna Ceccardi’s coalition believes in it, they want an explosion. The change is there, the forecasts say so. There is no longer any shame in Tuscany to be on the streets of so many cheering for the center right. There is pride and a sense of belonging. And it is already a victory.