Small reminder for the political forces that today, rewarded by consensus, feel their unshakeable weight and therefore their power is not eternal but still solid: at the Regional elections of Basilicata five years ago, M5S and Lega put together – at the time they governed together – they took 40 percent of the votes, in the European vote a few weeks later even better: 53 percent.
Five years later the Movement and the League, in the same region, took home just over 15 percent of the votes. The Northern League always led the coalition Vito Bardi winning six seats, the 5 Stars ran alone electing three, reduced to two respectively for both.
The splash speaks well of the crisis of two parties which, from being the fulcrum of a new political structure after the 2018 policies, now find themselves the lame ducks of their own coalition. And if in the game of communicating vessels of the centre-right the League’s loss is reabsorbed by the allies (FdI doubles the League, Forza Italia almost and it stings a lot), in the centre-left those votes simply disappear into thin air. To think that only two years ago, at the political elections, the M5S, driven by its campaign in defense of citizenship income in Basilicata, maintained absolute political primacy, with 25 percent of the votes: 61 thousand. He has a third left, 20 thousand, equal to 7.7 percent. Except that by virtue of 2022, the Movement has had good times and bad weather in recent months with its center-left allies, forcing the Democratic Party to change the presidential candidate in the running: Angelo Chiorazzo leave, then try again Domenico Lacerenza but he too gets shot and then in the end he folds up Piero Marrese (who also earns 5 percent compared to the total number of lists supporting him). A terrible show for the Lucanians, seasoned among other things by the choice – which proved to be the deciding factor – of Action to move to the centre-right.
In the general semi-silence of Via di Campo Marzio in the face of the debacle, the second in the space of a few weeks after Abruzzo, and in the face of putting one’s hands ahead of Giuseppe Conte against ‘controlled voting’, that’s right Riccardo Magi of +Europa which puts its finger on the wound: “Conte is recognized as having a political weight in determining strategic choices that is absolutely disproportionate to the weight of the consensus he has”. All things considered, this is the worst outcome of the elections in Basilicata for the Movement: having demonstrated that vetoes, impositions and controversies, the strong influence on the leaders of the Democratic Party, was not supported by the votes.
