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A ghost that in the meantime, however, has emptied the coffers of what continues to be the oldest and longest-lived party on the political scene, Umberto Bossi’s Northern League, born thirty years ago from the union of territorial movements, forcing it to take a turn dared. off: the Salvini Premier League was born in 2018. Debt-free but no longer from the North, secessionist dreams, “Padania first”. Goodbye to the soccer choirs against the southerners and invocations to Vesuvius. The Paraviking mythology of Pontida has also been weakened. To conquer the caliber of a multifaceted national party following the model of Marine Le Pen’s Front National, avoiding the resentful nostalgia of the Senatùr and the cords of the first who wanted to exhume the original symbol. The new nationalist and sovereign League cuts expenses and dispenses with public contributions (like everyone else), withdraws Radio Padania (of which Salvini was also director), while the historic newspaper La Padania had already closed its doors in 2014 (in April The latter was resurrected as the online newspaper La Nuova Padania, run by former Northern League player Stefania Piazzo, but with no ties to the match).
On the other hand, the organized structure in the territory that has allowed the League to “drain” consensus, especially on the left, remains intact: the capillary network of sections, not only in the Northeast, many were opened in the South at the time from the list “. Noi with Salvini” and the “landing in the south” organized (with little success) by Senator Raffale Volpi. In “red” Tuscany they are found in Lucca, Prato, Arezzo, Florence, Pisa, Livorno, Massa Carrara, Pistoia, Siena. As in all the provinces of Umbria, Marche, Emilia Romagna. Tight sections, often formed by a local secretary or commissioner and managed with the help of volunteers. However, money that goes into rents, bills, administrative expenses, electoral campaigns. Money, in short, necessary for political activity that always and still warms the hearts of militants. Salvini knows this, and he is a worm that does not leave him alone.
If the investigation in Milan – yet another – proves that there was embezzlement, that 400 thousand euros ended up in unauthorized pockets, the entire financial architecture of the party will shake: Alberto Di Rubba is the administrative director of the group in the Senate. Andrea Manzoni is the group’s auditor in the Chamber, while Arturo Maria Scilieri is the accountant in whose office the new “Lega per Salvini” movement was founded and domiciled. A trio of names that inevitably made the Ligurian magistrates prick up their ears on the 49 million euro trail while Tom Thumb followed the breadcrumbs. But also to the militants and voters of the Northern League who, although faithful, do not appreciate scandals, much less economic ones. And they just digest the “extra slippers”.
Salvini doesn’t stop because he can’t stop. It surpasses the regions that will vote for their governor next week. He hopes – he almost trusts – in the conquest of Tuscany, which would be worth the electoral party point. That is why he bites his tongue, he does not polarize the confrontation. On October 3, the first hearing of the Open Arms trial awaits him in Palermo, due to the decisions made in the Ministry of the Interior. The parliamentarians of the Northern League have already been previously alerted: an appointment in Sicily, all for one and one for all. As long as there are no other problems. And while the “lioness” Susanna Ceccardi manages to destroy her rival.
If this were not the case, and if Raffaele Fitto could also evict Michele Emiliano from Puglia, the leader of the League would find himself in double trouble. The judicial. And that of two regions, Puglia and Marche, in the hands of an ever stronger Giorgia Meloni and, in fact, more insidious.
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