Veneto, Zaia king of the polls scares the League. Here are all the movements of the Salvinians to weaken the governor

They have snatched the councilors, they have made the name of the coalition symbol disappear and now they ask all members to vote for the party’s list and not their own. La Lega and Matteo Salvini continue to study strategies to reduce the unbridled personal consent of Veneto Governor Luca Zaia and limit the collapse of the Carroccio as a party.

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The secretariat’s diktat was sent to the members through a note sent by Commissioner Lorenzo Fontana, who reiterated his commitment to “protect the official list.” The message is clear: support only the candidates of the League and not those of the Zaia list, nor the other satellite teams. The latest Quorum poll indicates Luca Zaia with 68.4%, the absolute master of Veneto, with Arturo Lorenzoni center-left candidate at 19.6%. For Noto, the polls are even between 71 and 75 percent. With such a wide margin of consensus, with the popularity that the governor of Veneto has acquired with the emergence of Covid thanks to the 130 days of daily press conferences, there are at least two assessments worth mentioning: on the one hand, the party wants reiterate his strength regardless of the individuals in one of his fiefdoms, on the other, Matteo Salvini may not like the advancement of a political figure that can also be spent on the national stage.

A month ago, the kidnapping of all Veneto regional councilors by Salvini caused a sensation. The administrators, who come out of the five years of government of the region with a full promotion, represent an important consensus fund. Federico Caner in Treviso, Roberto Marcato and Giuseppe Pan in Padua, Cristiano Corazzari in Rovigo, Elisa De Berti in Verona and Manuela Lanzarote in Vicenza with Nicola Finco, will therefore be candidates on the official list of the League. And the symbol of the coalition? Another at least unusual theme: a pendant with the word Veneto 2020. From the name Zaia, not even the shadow.

“That will be printed on the ballot”, the local leaders of the League try to mitigate the controversy. “It was a choice consistent with the commitment expressed by our directors during these five years”, explains Lorenzo Fontana from Mattino di Padova. “It seems reasonable to me that the sections undertake to protect the official list. This is not a political distinction: on both sides there are exclusively members of the Veneta League, but we want to balance the opportunities of our candidates, aware that the Fortunately, the Polls attribute a broad consensus to Luca. He himself shared this choice without hesitation, we discussed it calmly and no serious disagreements arose. In any case, there was some discussion in the compilation of the lists, but we got through it without drama. “