After Oscar di Montigny renounces to run for Palazzo Marino against Giuseppe Sala, the center-right in Milan is once again stuck at the post. Today’s summit has been postponed to a later date even though Matteo Salvini assured last night that “within the week there will be, not only the mayor, but the team for Milan”. Meanwhile, however, in the general stalemate in which the coalition has fallen, some “stone in the pond” someone tries to throw it. This is the case of Roberto Rasia Dal Polo, the first, already in January, to give his availability to the center-right – after being probed by Stefano Bolognini Commissioner of the League in Milan and by Salvini himself – who this morning on his very active Facebook profile a proposal: «Matteo Salvini could run for Mayor of Milan. In my eyes, after nine months of study and daily analysis of everything that happens in Milan, down to the smallest details, it turns out to be the only (indeed the last) move that the center-right can invent to get out of the swamp “, writes the manager of the Pellegrini Group. Who spares no criticism, albeit veiled, to the center-right: «Because, let’s face it, everyone is saying so much even at the bar (with all due respect to those who claim that people do not read the newspapers): we are at the comedians. Not being able to find a candidate or, better, a convergence between all the actors at the table on the many names proposed by the League (and not only) can be a much more devastating boomerang than you think in the center-right. The regional ones are one step away. Policies accordingly. And the whole center-right would lose us ».
For this reason, for Rasia Dal Polo «Salvini is the only big name who at this point could overturn the game table, messing up everything and everyone. Who in the center-right can say no to Salvini? From the point of view of the electorate, of course, it would not be a walk in the park. Matteo has a strong personality and for this reason he is divisive, but Milan is his city and he cares a lot. From a political point of view – he adds – someone said at the time that he was excluded, because he only had to lose in case of defeat ». An analysis which however does not convince Rasia Dal Polo: «Are we sure that things are still like this? Couldn’t it instead be that “move you don’t expect” that instead re-evaluates one of the main political leaders of today? He would come out clean, winning, a leader to the nth degree. He would know how to do it. Taking the field, putting your face and commitment to your city could be the first step for a new center-right, for a new League, for a new Milan ».
At the moment, the only name that remains of the wide range of possible candidates of these months is the former minister Maurizio Lupi who, according to a research by Antonio Noto’s Noto Sondaggi commissioned by the VersoZero Association, could play the game head to head with the outgoing mayor. Meanwhile, from the center-left they rejoice in the stalemate of their opponents. Fiano, Milanese deputy of the Democratic Party, commented on the news of the retirement of di Montigny: «The center-right in Milan has never, in my memory, been so in difficulty. In what in the epic of the Italian right should be the capital of the Lega, birthplace of Matteo Salvini, and of Forza Italia, where Silvio Berlusconi and his party were born, the capital of the North that works and produces against idleness of Rome … the right has not been able for months to demonstrate that it has a ruling class that presents itself to govern the city ».