The Veneto node. Giorgetti: "Everyone with Zaia". Salvini: "Don’t question good governance"

Everyone at Zaia’s side? “Absolutely yes“: this is how minister Giancarlo Giorgetti responds as he leaves the federal council of the League. To those who ask him if a framework will be found with the allies, Giorgetti replies: “But yes, it has been found…”.

So the third mandate, yes or no, continues to be discussed. “We don’t say yes or no to Zaia, the debate is on the third mandate, us we think two are more than enough to do the necessary work. Tosi? Proposed to the coalition, we did not nominate him”, explains the MP and Forza Italia spokesperson Raffaele Nevi to Rai Radio1, guest of Un Giorno da Pecora.

“Our point of view is that those who are chosen directly by the citizens should not have mandate limits so that in the end the sovereign people can evaluate whether they have administered well or badly. We note that this position is ours alone. But, considering the matter Zaia or De Luca, the problem in Veneto is political, if Zaia can no longer run, but the League has governed well, then who owns the Veneto region?”, is the question posed by the leader of the League, Riccardo Molinari, to Agora up Rai 3. “If Meloni wants to keep the center-right together he must do like Berlusconi, not only look at the contingent electoral moment, but must evaluate the specificities of the individual parties. Given that the League has always been characterized as the party of territories and autonomy , the centre-right allies should take this peculiarity into account. This is how a coalition is held together.”

But what did the governor of Veneto say two days ago? “The reading is not ‘Zaia wants to run alone’, the reading is ‘you have 10 months to think and find a solution’ – explained Zaia -. I am sure that in the end common sense will prevail also because all the conditions for a fibrillation that risks becoming dangerous. Anything could happen in 10 months.” No threat, nor ultimatum on the subject of the third term but a clear warning: “Obviously we hope for a unified race but it is essential that there are the conditions to do it well… And one says so that he has already done solitary races” explained the president of the Veneto Region, recalling the one in 2002 when he ran alone in Treviso, defeating the forecasts that gave the centre-right 40% and ending with a run-off Zaia – Democratic Party. As if to say that the center-right really wouldn’t want a new tug-of-war of this type, much less after an election that elected it with more than 75% of the votes in 2020.

“It is human and understandable that each party, approaching the elections, camps with the ‘desiderata’. That FdI or FI ask to take part in this match I do not find it a crime of lèse majesté but it is a question of understanding the point of failure. I think that we we governed well, but if I don’t agree, tell us that we didn’t do it, but then we will part ways,” Zaia finally added. One thing is certain for the governor: “It is unacceptable that they talk about blocking mandates and the risk of centers of power mouths that have been fed by Parliament for 30 years“.

Salvini: “Do not question good governance”

If another center-right party claims the candidate for Veneto, is there a risk that the League will run alone? “In these two years of government, the League has been absolutely loyal to the government in every vote. And the stability of the Italian government is a heritage that Europe is envying us and which is rewarding us economically. So it doesn’t a government that will last all five years is under discussion”, stated Matteo Salvini interviewed by Bruno Vespa on Cinque Minuti. “One thing – the Northern League deputy prime minister then points out – is the political vote and another thing is good local administration. If the good governance of the League and Zaia in Veneto for years has been recognized at an international level, questioning it for political reasons and Roman choices would not seem useful to me. I am sure that with the allies we will find a solution, as we have always found, and I am sure – concludes Salvini – that no one wants to question one of the most virtuous governments in Europe to put a flag somewhere”.