Regional Valle d’Aosta, Lega party but could end up in opposition. Face to face between the center-left and the autonomists

AOSTA – Special not only in the statute but in its electoral modalities, the Aosta Valley has scrutinized the votes for the Region and for the 35 councilors just today. And opening the package he discovered that the League is the first game in terms of detachment, with a percentage of more than 23 percent. But as in Valle the vote for the Council does not automatically express either the president or the government, it may also happen that Salvini is the first party but then it goes to the opposition.

The real surprise, in fact, is the figure obtained by the left coalition, Progetto Civico Progressista, in the second place thread with the Valdôtaine Union on the border between 15 and 16 percent. In the end, it will be the autonomists who only apparently pulverize themselves to decide who will have power in the Aosta Valley: League or left?

While the M5S falls through the crack and does not even go to the town hall, the Valle d’Aosta vote shows that dear old more or less cross-sectional coalitions fill the barn. Autonomy, in power for decades before a kind of political suicide and a shower of scandals, is in theory the first party: count, not weigh.

If, on the contrary, we weigh, we discover that the old Augusto Rollandin is the true immortal of the vote: 72 years, six times regional president in a period of fifteen years, printable for the Antimafia after being sentenced to 4 years in the first degree and 6 months for corruption, Rollandin founded his last party in August and practically doing everything himself surpassed the 6 percent mark.

Ineligible (until November, when Severino “will expire”) and on balance until second and third degree sentences, the Emperor can still sit at the table and say yes, no, maybe. A triumph for whom many have left for dead and that, instead, not only is still here, but manages to be followed by many people from the Aosta Valley despite inquiries about ‘Ndrangheta and Casino.

Now it’s like the Palio di Siena: riders must come to an agreement, knowing that a barely close pact can be overturned between the ropes with a better offer. It looks like the cow market but it is just the old politics, mummified but eternal, with its liquid spirit and the vital instinct of a purebred horse. But perhaps the most significant data of the Valle d’Aosta elections is yet another: the return of the people to the polls despite Covid, the fear of getting sick and discontent with politics.

In fact, 70.51 of those with the right to vote voted, five percentage points more than in the 2018 elections: these, for the first time in the history of the Valley, were ahead. And they were a sign: now there are two months to interpret it, the pallium of the dead neighborhoods is going to last so long. Then, without agreement, the vote would return, but you will see that these horsemen will find a way to understand each other. Including shaken horses.