Regional, Emiliano wins without M5 and Renzi: between ‘minestrone politics’ and a weak challenger, this is how the Puglia Spring continues

Won Michele Emiliano. But himself, the one disowned by all government allies and against which even minority pieces of the Democratic party they turned their nose. She won as she planned to do, hugging everyone who could hug with a group of 15 list that held together the symbol of DC me Nichi Vendola. A precise strategy was already in place during the first term: a wink to the Five Star electorate and a strong hand to the former Alfaniani and Berluscones. “I was afraid of losing,” he admitted as he celebrated his re-election. And this despite a recycled candidate, Raffaele Dense, supported however by all center right. Lost the hot soup, won the Politics of Minestrone of Miche ‘. Carlo Calenda had called him “a bread cooked in which you can add a little of everything ”. She thought she was insulting him, but she had seen there recipe Victory.

Wide, in addition. The ballot boxes painted a face to the last vote, in which even Emiliano would have chased. In the first projection instead, the gap was already clear, wide, defined. A clear victory, driven by the province of Bari, celebrated already at dinner time. With enthusiasm for Puglia that “Don’t bend your back” but also the “Great sadness” for not being able to propose the same alliance as Conte government. “Also because I gave so much to the executive,” the governor correctly explained, “and I and Fitto are two very respectable people, but with very different stories.” Facing the lonely avalanche of Italy Long Live, remained very out of the competition with Ivan Scalfarotto about 2% and outside the Regional Council, and in no barricade of Antonella Laricchia and of the M5s, the anti-mafia magistrate on leave of absence did it himself.

He collected fifteen lists, including the Open Society-Association The Liberals, Retired and disabled and the VAT persons – and held together the scudocrociato of the DC Puglia and the hammer and sickle Left alternative. Citizenship with your name – With Emiliano, Popular with Emiliano, Emiliano mayor of Puglia – I am the “Second party” of the Region with more 13% preferences, only behind the P.S. He was also supported by Nichi Vendola, the man who fifteen years ago was the first to corner Fitto and open the Apulian spring. The former governor blesses his victory, but also warns of the need not to betray the trust received: “For Emiliano today there is a duty to relaunch the Southern challenge, even listening to the critics sometimes sacrosanct which referred to the action of the regional government. “

The challenge now comes, especially in decarbonizzazione Dell ‘Ilva, after a election campaign The old style of his more than 500 candidates played “house by house, country by country”. Thanks to which Emiliano managed to steal some disjoint vote in Laricchia and Fitto, which will close with less personal vows of those who have collected the lists in their support. “Helpful vote”, was renamed. Little things, yes. But in any case, the Five Stars came from those who were aware of the impossibility of a victory and also from the center-right more than someone thought what the leaders of Brothers from Italy me Go Italy. In other words, after 15 years of the center-left, the times were ripe because the region of Pinuccio Tatarella make the Right, but Fitto’s face was indigestible. Matteo Salvini had smelled and after having had to pick up the candidacy and stay away from the MEP as much as possible.

Governor for five years, already defeated after a health reform and 870 million euros derivatives to fill the gap in financial statements, his version shirtless me youthful look, now that you have 51 years, did not pierce the heart of the Apulians. He attempted some sort of removal work, speaking little of his previous tenure. Certain things, like shut down or downgrade 22 hospitalsAfter all, it’s best not to dig them up. The Apulians, however, must not have forgotten. And they preferred uncertainties and unsolved knots di Emiliano, the governor who posted his phone number on social media and promises to reply to anyone who writes him. La Primavera di Vendola has vanished without touching the cornerstones of vendolism that have transformed Puglia in the last fifteen years.

All of these elements have led to a reaffirmation that it is not that the unbridled success of a Zaia the By Luca but it is still clear. Thanks also to former opponents like Simeone Di Cagno Abbrescia, placed in the presidency ofAqueduct of Apuliaand his challenger in 2015 Francesco Schittulli, which now supports it. But also in the capacity to glimpse a weapon in the epidemiologist Pier luigi lopalco, went from fighting to COVID-19 to that for a seat on the Council. The only ones who rejected the courtship were the most courted. The Five Stars that Emiliano wanted also, from the first day of the first legislature, have closed the door in his face today as then. And now they are in margins, tightened in a percentage that will not exceed 10 percent – it means only one councilor – when two years ago they touched 50% in Policies.

They had a silver tray in front to direct and control, they preferred the testimony. However, Miche ‘starts from where she had finished her first term, without also closing a possible dialogue with them. Expanding, holding together, not dissatisfying is the guiding star: “It was a great political victory for Puglia – he said after the success – Now it will be up to us to interpret it correctly, giving every political force, to each electorate, to each nuance of thought of the Apulians fair representation “. It’s not even time to win, as Emiliano has the next chapter of minestrone politics ready.

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