The showdown begins in the center-right. Only Forza Italia candidates win. “Salvini and Meloni make the left seem more credible”
It is a really bad day for Giorgia Meloni And Matteo Salvini. The two contenders for the leadership of the center-right collect a clear and painful defeat, moreover by winning only where the coalition has presented a candidate of Forza Italia, which until a few weeks ago was (understandably) considered the weak link in the chain.
To revive the ambitions of the party of Silvio Berlusconi I’m Roberto Di Piazza, Mayor of Trieste, e Roberto Occhiuto, which happens to the lamentation Jole Santelli to the Presidency of the Calabria Region.
Their success is also the disavowal of the “civic” line on which Salvini had spent a lot of time in view of this round: both are in fact political candidates in every sense, as well as DOC forcers.
Roberto Di Piazza he is in his fourth term, a success that makes him a symbol for the entire city and not “only” for his political side. Undoubtedly a moderate who, according to the parliamentarian FI Alessandro Cattaneo “It comes from our values and interprets them best” (and he said it before the ballot).
Even wider the victory of Roberto Occhiuto, a deputy of FI who, in order to have the support of the entire coalition, had to accept the ticket with the Northern League Nino Spirlì, who performed the role of “acting officer” after Santelli’s early death.
The flop of the center-right boosts not only Forza Italia, but also a minor formation like Good Right, which with its leader Filippo Rossi he comments bluntly: “As we wanted to demonstrate, the populist sovereign traction center-right hands over the country to the government of the left. Salvini and Meloni are the right that is more convenient than the left, a right so irresponsible that it will never be able to govern a large country like Italy. Their extremism makes the left – without merit – more credible “.
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