Posted Sep 27, 2022, 4:02 PMUpdated Sep 27, 2022, 5:55 PM
The legislative elections have a unique and great winner: Giorgia Meloni. His party is the only one to have progressed since the last election. More than a victory, it recorded a real triumph with a leap from 4 to 26%. A feat which can be explained by the collapse to his advantage of his two allies of the right-wing coalition Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi and the League of Matteo Salvini.
Tired of the first and disappointed by the second, right-wing voters voted for Fratelli d’Italia. Despite his hegemony over the conservative camp, Giorgia Meloni will need his two declining allies, who will ensure him an absolute majority in Parliament, to govern.
It is a shipwreck for the ambitions of “Capitano” Matteo Salvini. The one who had taken his party from 4 to 17% during the last legislative elections and up to more than 34% in the last European elections is humiliated. He collapsed below the psychological threshold of 10% with 8.9% of the vote and plunged the League into full psychodrama.
Matteo Salvini under fire from critics
In its historic bastions in the north, Fratelli d’Italia records double, even triple its results and it even comes in third position behind the Democratic Party. ” We will remember who betrayed corporations by bringing down the Draghi government “, had yet warned Enrico Carraro, the president of the Venetian employers.
” We pay for having participated in the government of national unity while Giorgia Meloni took advantage of her status as the only opponent “, is justified Matteo Salvini. An unconvincing explanation. ” We are going through a difficult moment and we must face it seriously without being afraid of criticism from activists, says Luca Zaia, Governor of Veneto, the analysis must be serious and not liquidated with banal arguments. “. It should be carried out during a congress demanded by leading party figures, including MEP Gian Antonio da Re for whom ” our defeat has a name and a first name, that of Matteo Salvini. Let him pass his hand! “. Eventuality for the moment excluded by the principal concerned.
As for Silvio Berlusconi, at 86, the Cavaliere is still in the saddle. The polls predicted a rout, he suffered an honorable defeat with just 8% of the vote. Enough to allow him to return to sit in the Senate from where he had been expelled following his conviction for tax evasion. What above all to make himself indispensable to Giorgia Meloni to guarantee him a stable majority.
Whoever presents himself as the Padre Nobile of the Italian right wants to vouch for the seriousness of the future government. ” Our referent in Europe is the EPPdid he declare. We are the guarantee that Italy will look to Brussels and not to Budapest, that it will apply Draghi’s recovery plan and that it does not run a populist risk. »
The constitution of the government will be delicate
For the moment Giorgia Meloni does not issue any comment and displays a rare sobriety following her triumph. She claims to be immersing herself in the files that await her, in particular economic, and to think about her government’s list. ” It will be made up of the best because it has no room for error, promises his right arm Guido Crosetto. Traditionally, each party in the coalition claims its importance, but we will not allow any compromise “.
Giorgia Meloni’s entourage has already made it known that Matteo Salvini’s desire to return to the Interior Ministry will not be satisfied, just like that of seeing Silvio Berlusconi preside over the Senate. The latter also wants four ministries of weight for his faithful including that of Foreign Affairs for Antonio Tajani, former President of the European Parliament. The negotiations promise to be difficult. Giorgia Meloni will have to come to terms with his small, inexperienced team, while his allies, despite their weakness, can count on their pool of ex-ministers. The leader of Fratelli d’Italia will above all have to manage allies in crisis who will not hesitate to assert their divergence in order to stand out.
