Lega, discontent in Varese: “Salvini did everything wrong in Europe”

“Salvini did everything wrong in Europe. Italy irrelevant”. Lega, discontent rises in Varese

“It was a huge mistake to put the League in opposition in Europe in 2019” and if “to err is human, to persevere is diabolical”. It's trenchant Marco Reguzzoniformer president of the province of Varese of the North league and former group leader in the Chamber of Deputies at the time of the last one Berlusconi government.

Asked by Affaritaliani.itReguzzoni, today president of the political association “I Repubblicani”, administrator of a company active in the purchase and restructuring of real estate and CEO of Biocell Center Corporation, a company active in the field of study and research on placental stem cells, is an exponent of that dissatisfied deep North. He is keen to point out that the League “is no longer my party” and “I haven't had a membership card for ten years”, “I'm fine like this”, but that's not the point. The problem is “not having political weight in Europe”, as well as in Italy.

The latest slogan thrown out there by will be of little use Matteo Salvini to ask his government to “do more” for them farmersreceived yesterday at Palazzo Chigi by the prime minister Giorgia Meloni. The latest small and belated battle on the Irpef exemption for the agricultural sector does not change anything. The land workers are already angry and more than what he promised Melonsis that Affaritaliani.it published yesterday morning in preview (Irpef exemption under 10 thousand euros), it will not be granted.

It's late, in fact. And the leader of the League knows that the result that emerges from the European elections will not only be an opportunity to try to renegotiate the balance of power within the majority of Centre-rightbut also an appointment to try to keep the base of the Carroccio who in the North is increasingly impatient with his secretary. The ailments of farmers they are nothing if you put your ear to the territories.

In particular in Varese, the province from which the number two of the League and Minister of Economy comes, Giancarlo Giorgetti and where it comes from Reguzzoni. There the fibrillations begin to appear with a certain frequency and have a very specific reason: the irrelevance of League. In Europe, Italy does not influence or guide community policies. The opposite of what the Northern League promised. The intolerance also has other reasons: Salvini's vertical secretariat that listens little and proceeds with propaganda.

“There's no point in being in Europe without sitting at the tables that count,” says Reguzzoni, who praises the foresight of Melons to hook up with Populars and flirt with Ursula von der Leyen. “Matteo is intelligent – ​​he clarifies Reguzzoni -, but you must listen to the discontent”. In 2019, the League's record result at the European Championships was almost useless. “What's the point of putting 23 European parliamentarians in opposition?” asks the former Northern League group leader in Montecitorio.

It's no longer enough to put a few million euros in Budget Law and announce urbi et orbi that the Bridge over the Strait will finally be built when “purchasing power is reduced” and in the South it will be the workers of Calabria and Sicily who will set up the work (a hypothesis which seems truly remote today). The intemperates, defined by some as “tantrums”, on the Bobsleigh track are no longer enough 2026 Winter Olympics That Salvini he wants in Cortina, even if the costs would be much more onerous, as Giorgetti admits, “regretted” having nominated Italy as a candidate at the time of the first Conte government.

And even the autonomist project is no longer enough to keep the Northern League members happy. The Calderoli bill, after mediations with the majority partners, was watered down compared to the original idea of ​​federalism. The season of turbo-propaganda must end. This is what the pragmatic entrepreneurs of the North who look to them as a model are asking for Luca Zaia. “To err is human, to persevere is diabolical” is a phrase which, 4 months after the European elections, resembles a warning to Salvini and to his secretary.