After a few days in which Putin held the peace mission, Salvini relaunched another peace project but fiscal. In a few hours we have gone from a plan that foresaw up to the involvement of the Pontiff to an initiative that, instead, deals with tax bills for about 15 million Italians for amounts that are about a thousand euros in total – as stated by the Lega leader himself – on which he proposes an amnesty, perhaps limited to interest and penalties. In short, another order of problems and magnitudes. We have gone from a dramatic issue like the war in Ukraine to an entirely internal front like that of the scrapping of files. Many people read in these initiatives the need to regain approval from Italian public opinion but Salvini should keep an eye on his party as well.
In fact, the frost to his diplomatic initiative, even before the government and the chancelleries, came from the Carroccio, where more or less all the main exponents – for example, even Zaia – said they knew nothing of that peace mission that it seems to have been built with consultants outside the League. Here is the point. Is it possible that such an ambitious project with a significant impact on the choices of international location is not discussed and possibly shared with the party? It is true that his leadership is not questioned, but thinking of being able to skip all the internal steps exposes him to criticism, especially in the area closest to Draghi. Even Minister Giorgetti said that those of the leader are “suggestive proposals but it is necessary to act in concert with the Executive”.
Even Meloni – who also wanted to specify that she had not criticized Salvini – is certainly not on his side. Therefore, with that announcement he caused a distance within the League and also in the coalition with FdI and part of Forza Italia and it will not be easy to get out of it. As we said, the Carroccio has always been a compact force on its leader but the phase is changing. In the sense that slowly we are approaching the elections and therefore the knot of the lists. Here, as long as Salvini was grinding consensus and was able to guarantee places for everyone, he could count on loyalty but what will happen now that, according to the polls, he is below the levels of 2018? If those percentages of around 16% were confirmed, not only he will no longer be able to ensure seats for everyone but even the seats are reduced due to the cut in parliamentarians that will come into force with the next legislature. Here all the impatience that has remained hidden could emerge.