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Il Carroccio remains “firmly the first party of the center-right” but this is not enough. Not if the objective is to reconquer the government of Italy
by Barbara Fiammeri
Il Carroccio remains “firmly the first party of the center right” but this is not enough. Not if the objective is to reconquer the government of Italy
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Luca Zaia keeps repeating that he is not interested in leading the League. Matteo Salvini insists on recalling that the list of the Venetian governor, who has detached his party by 30%, refers to “militants” of the Carroccio. But they are phrases of circumstance, dictated by the need not to open more failures now after a tough electoral result for the Captain, never in difficulty like now. His leadership is no longer indisputable. And not so much in the League but as the main candidate of the center-right, where Zaia (unlike Salvini) was able to obtain a transversal consensus, beyond the League and even beyond the coalition parties. As it happened in Veneto.
The “Captain” is no longer invulnerable
It was Zaia himself who highlighted this, claiming the option of privileging deeds over words, the government in and for the territory to the detriment of “rallies”. An election that the voters have understood, so much so that “so many voters of the Democratic Party voted for me that if there were national, political elections, they would not vote for me.”
What if, on the contrary, Zaia led the League, the center-right also at the national level?
Here is the question that even before this electoral verdict was whispered inside and outside the Carroccio. And now that the Captain’s invulnerability has faded, those same voices could be raised even higher. Also because not everyone on the right came out with broken bones. Despite the crushing defeat in Puglia (not compensated by the victory at Marche), the electorate rewarded Giorgia Meloni by giving new impetus to the Brothers of Italy.
The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, also made Bingo, bringing his list to the top of the center-right coalition. The League, on the other hand, has lost a lot of votes everywhere in the space of a year, that is, since the last European Championship. Of course, as Salvini rightly points out, Carroccio remains “firmly the first party of the center-right.”
