The great absentee is still Silvio Berlusconi. From Forza Italia they let it be known that the former premier will connect via zoom at the end of the summit. In his place is Antonio Tajani who assures on the state of health of the coalition: the center-right returns to meet for the autumn municipal, is united and will present itself “in a compact way with only one candidate in each city.” In truth, the summit in the offices of the League in the Chamber recalls those of the old Union of Romano Prodi with long and flooded tables. In addition to the FI coordinator together with Licia Ronzulli, Matteo Salvini is hand in hand with the deputy secretary Andrea Crippa and the local authority manager Stefano Locatelli. Giorgia Meloni assisted by Ignazio La Russa and the group leader Francesco Lollobrigida. There is Gaetano Quagliariello for Idea-Cambiamo while the Ligurian governor Giovanni Toti is in video link. At the table there are Maurizio Lupi (We for Italy), Antonio De Poli and Lorenzo Cesa (Udc) and also Vittorio Sgarbi for the Renaissance.
They will have to decide on the candidacies of the big cities, but above all they will have to find a minimum of calm Salvini and Meloni after the recent clashes on Copasir. The Northern League did not want to give the presidency to Adolfo Urso of FdI accusing him of being a friend of Iran, but Giorgia promises about this, he does not intend to speak. If anything, why Matteo would have made her believe that only her yes was missing from the candidacies of Albertini in Milan and Bertolaso in Rome, accusing her of blocking the center-right, when instead the two were not willing to come forward.
In short, a bluff for Meloni played by Salvini more and more nervous of the exponential growth of FdI that many polls give second Italian party, after having bypassed the Democratic Party and having lit the arrow of overtaking against the Carroccio. But today the summit wants to be the constructive part of this phase. And the first thing to decide, in addition to pretending to love each other again, is to decide whether the candidates must all be civic, as had been decided. Because Silvio Berlusconi, the great absentee today for continuous health reasons, would like to nominate a politician like Lupi in Milan or alternatively Gasparri in Rome. Salvini and Meloni instead keep course on the civics. You focus on the lawyer Enrico Michetti, director of administrative justice and popular voice of the Radio Radio broadcaster, much listened to in the neighborhoods, by football fans and on taxi cars. A survey was carried out by Tecnè / AdnKrons which gives the approval of Michetti to 38% (behind Raggi with 24% and Gualtieri to 35%). It was also probed against the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, senator of the League and Michetti still wins 35% to 33%. It seems that the League has another civic to propose, the president of the Rome Chooses Rome movement, Raimondo Grassi, architect, urban planner, entrepreneur in the renewable energy sector. Candidacy that seems to have faded after the dissemination of those polls that give Michetti strong.
For Milan, however, the female candidacy seems to emerge, that of Annarosa Racca, president of Federfarma Lombardia.
She had said this morning that “the hypothesis of my appointment is not yet concrete, but it is a great and important recognition not so much for me, but for all the Milanese and Lombard pharmacies”.