“I have about ten names for post-Zaia. It could even be a woman.” In his tours around the North-East Matteo Salvini lets slip a word that he had never said: “after”. Because until yesterday there was Luca Zaia’s present and Luca Zaia’s future. Always there, immovable, at least for the League, the bulwark around which to build the strenuous battle for the green light for the third term for the regional presidents.
Until yesterday, in fact. Because indirectly, but not too much, the Northern League secretary seems to have shelved the campaign to lock down the Doge in Venice. He is no longer in the future of the Serenissima, there is a shortlist of names that Via Bellerio is weighing so as not to be found unprepared for what now seems inevitable for Salvini: dumping Zaia and his aspirations for a reconfirmation.
Sources close to the governor tell of an atmosphere that is anything but calm in the governor’s area, deeply irritated by words that sound like a white flag for his aspirations. To the point that in the evening, after long hours of silence, the League was forced to put a patch on it with a note that did not go beyond the minimum wage of “Zaia is a heritage” and “the limit of two mandates limits the freedom of choice of the citizens”. Words that do not reassure the Northern League colonel, on whose future Salvini seems to have now put a tombstone.
