Liguria, the experiment of the candidate Giallorossi in the kingdom of Toti. Between politicized emergencies and boycotts, Sansa runs the risk of being a “scapegoat”

There are a few days to vote and in Liguria, but the outgoing president Giovanni toti is already launched inorganization of the toast with whom, on Monday night, he feels confident of celebrating his re-election with his followers. The months lost by vertices of Pd and M5s by choosing a unitary candidate they seem to have exhausted potential voters from a political area which, in Liguria, would also have reason to be more united than at the national level.

On the political use of emergencies – “They argued among themselves.” Thus Toti dismissed the controversy for his stubborn refusal to public confrontation with the rest of the candidates: “I have much more to deal with.” The “other thing” is the emergency of the Coronavirus that is pushing back the province of La Spezia in the nightmare confinement. Covid, which was the subject of an electoral shock, with criticism about the too low number of tampons (the entire Region does less than the province of Trento alone), about the low capacity to track infections, about the underestimation of risks and inefficient use of resources.

All the criticism that, from the top of the 20 points ahead The weather in Ferruccio Sansa given by polls in early September, the current president is not worth your attention. What Ligurian center-right understood very well is that if one can wisely avoid any co-responsibility and manage government funding and compensation in person, the perennial state of emergency can easily morph into an efficient factory of consensus production.

The damage caused by hydrogeological instability, the reflected light offered by the reconstruction-spectacle of the Morandi bridge (which Toti would have preferred to build with Aspi) and the pandemic are only the three most recent examples. Misfortunes monopolize public discourse and those who hold power enjoy unique opportunities for media overexposure, being able to propose themselves as someone trying to solve problems while the opposition forces are forced to limit criticism, so as not to be accused of defeatism, condemning themselves to political invisibility.

Seen up close, Giallorossi’s alliance looks like a “real thing” (despite everything) – In Liguria, the coalition between the M5, the left and the Pd has its roots in five years of opposition side by side in the regional council, theoretically capable of making everyone understand that united you win, divided you lose. However, this obvious banality do not download the applicants yet Jep Gambardella of local politics, who are unable to “participate in the parties” as “invited” municipalities, but prefer to “have the power to make them fail” if they do not win the most coveted seats. So the stop on Sansa imposed by Renzi forced her Ligurian squad to dance alone, while at Cinque Stelle’s house a similar operation tried to replicate the former leader of the group. Alice salvatore, who with her “common sense” tries to win the vote of “that kind of grillini” who, like her, have not contested the steel pact made with Salvini, but instead pull their hair out at the idea of ​​sharing a program with the center to the left. Toti looks smugly This shows that it can offer you higher margins of advantage, while The weather in Ferruccio Sansa is consoled in the belief (we will see how well founded) that the Giallorossi electorate demonstrates broader visions than those of the leading groups of the Pd and M5 and, in fact, will vote precisely to send a message to those who feed the partisan disputes “even when they are programmatic reasons to do it. “

The leaders are there but you can’t see them – Although the independence of the candidate Giallorossi from the parties that nominated him will easily expose him to occupying the thankless role of perfect scapegoat in case of defeat, the “big names” of the parties who claim that they came one by one to Liguria to “put on a face.” To keep them in the shadows, letting himself be reached during his initiatives in the Region instead of organizing ad hoc meetings is Sansa himself, convinced that the support of the party leaders is less important than the events scattered throughout the territory designed to expose your own program. to “cure” and lead the undecided to vote. On the other hand, it would seem that also Toti is limited to attend by a “sense of duty” to the lush incursions of Liguria sovereign duo Meloni-Salvini, with whom he does not seem enthusiastic about having to share an electoral success that he hopes to win above all with the result of his orange list.

For his part Beppe Grillo seems to persevere in the line of gradual detachment from the events related to his political creature despite finding himself in the dual role of sponsor of the Giallorossi alliance and neighbor of The weather in Ferruccio Sansa. but still a message of support From the comedian to the candidate could make a difference: someone says they will arrive, even at the end of the photo, but for now everything is silent.

An unusual campaign between mega-posters of Berlusconi’s memory and unconventional initiatives – The anti-contagion limitations have moved the electoral campaign from the streets to social networks, Facebook and Instagram in all. Outside the web, Toti’s campaign is mainly carried out on local television, where the role of President of the Region does not cease and continues the “SpotPolitik” of the series of inaugurations to which the Ligurians have become accustomed in these five years. Giovanni Toti has chosen to combine an impressive variety of posters promoting television appearances and Salvin’s use of his social channels, alternating controversies with selfies between food and followers. “The President’s list” throughout the territory. The campaign The weather in Ferruccio Sansa, carried out with a handful of volunteers and activists (led by the journalist of the Republic Marco Preve) who leave every morning from the headquarters of the electoral committee established in Port Authority Circolo of Genoa to reach the most diverse villages in Liguria. An authentic tour de force country by country, accompanied by the candidates from your lists in the territory, who present ideas and proposals to you and are in charge of organizing your public meetings.

A region in free fall, but anger gives way to resignation – When he was chosen, Giovanni toti declared that it would revolutionize the destiny of Ligurian healthcare. Five years after Court of accounts photographs a ruthless situation: “In 2019, the Liguria region presents a deficit of 64 million, the worst after Molise. The health system registers expenses that constantly exceed income, with a very high cost per capita compared to services of medium-low quality ”. It would appear that the search for the “Lombard Model” has led Ligurian healthcare into a dead end. These deficiencies are compounded by an impressive growth in inequalities, the known problems with infrastructures that paralyze traffic (all promised works are stagnant), while the number of young people forced to emigrate increases look for work and those who stay do not have children, with a population seniority index that makes Liguria the oldest region in all of Europe.

Perhaps also in relation to these reality data (which depend only in part on who manages the Region) the population of Liguria stands out at the national level in the rankings of use of antidepressants, mirror of a general tendency to resignation.

now for something completely different – The weather in Ferruccio Sansa proposes a government program completely different from the one that the Ligurians have seen in the last 20 years, in which they have alternated with the government of the center-right and center-left, which with different tones and nuances have carried out substantially a similar vision of health (piece to be privatized for piece) and the development of the Region. In a climate of widespread precariousness, that “something completely different” represented byGiallorossi alliance and independent candidacy de Ferruccio Sansa seems to inspire many more fears than hopes. On the contrary, Toti’s candidacy, which relaunches the policies of recent years covering them with optimistic slogans about the future, promises the maintenance of consolidated balances and seems to be able to intercept the sentiments of prudence and self-preservation of its electorate.