L’AQUILA – Not just utilities, now also unpaid rent: for Fratelli d’Italia the eviction notice arrives from the headquarters in via Pizzo D’Oca in L’Aquila.
While the programmatic conference of the “Italy changes Europe” party is underway in Pescara – in which all the leaders of the centre-right and the full team of ministers and parliamentarians are participating – in the capital there is an attempt to quell further discontent and not to undermine the balance and relationships recently put to the test after the outcome of the regional elections, but in addition to the embarrassment of the separation of the current due to arrears, new sensational indiscretions emerge in the party led by the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, elected precisely in the L’Aquila-Teramo constituency.
In short, a serious hiccup that risks leaving FdI without a headquarters in what is considered the fortress of the Brothers of Italy, who elected the prime minister to crown a rise that began in 2017 with the election of Pierluigi Biondi, first Melonian mayor of a regional capital, reconfirmed in 2022.
Nobody is exaggerating, from within FdI we are witnessing a shift in responsibility, and in addition to the rent, which would not have been paid for months, the “oversight” of not having paid the last bills weighs heavily, a circumstance which has already forced the Melonians to move, in recent weeks, the first meeting of the new provincial coordination to the Nero Caffè bar, right in the city centre.
And so internal sources limit themselves to reporting that in recent years there have never been any problems in the management of the headquarters, which has always remained open, and that the problems arose with the handover, after the congress phase and the settlement of the new coordination.
But the difficulties of the leading party in Abruzzo, at 24.10%, in the L’Aquila area at 26%, are not limited only to the management of the headquarters in the regional capital and the tensions that have emerged with even more force in recent weeks have slowed down the enthusiasm for the historic second mandate of the President of the Region Marcus Marsilioalso from FdI, reconfirmed on 10 March with around seven points ahead of the centre-left candidate, Luciano D’Amico.
And it is precisely in L’Aquila, where the second party after the Democratic Party is surprisingly going against the trend, that the discontent over the failure to elect a candidate is concentrated, with Alessandro Piccinini And Tiziana Del Beato 5,443 and 5,043 votes respectively, in fourth and fifth place. In front of them are the preference record holders Mario Quaglieri, with 11,748 votes, and Massimo Verrecchia, 7,758, both Marsicans, and Anna Maria Rossi, of Sulmona, with 5,491 votes.
Hence the allusions, reported from many quarters, often entrusted to social media: “There is an ethic in everything that is done and those who trample on everything and everyone to achieve their own goals do not win”, we read between the lines of one of those discussed post by Piccinini, former municipal councilor of L’Aquila and former president of Gran Sasso Acqua, who also requested a recount of the ballots due to alleged errors in the minutes.
And the reassurances received from the provincial coordinator are not enough Claudio Gregorimayor of Barete – “We are a strong and united team, and together we have shown that we can achieve great goals” – to erase weeks of friction and “trips” that would have penalized the candidates from L’Aquila.
To throw fuel on the fire, in recent days, Giorgio De Matteis, FI deputy provincial secretary, who after a heated back and forth over the issue of parking in the center of L’Aquila, defined Gregori himself as “confused and distracted” underlining: “it would be better for him to take care of Barete and pay the bills”. With Gregori himself who then threatened lawsuits.
Just the umpteenth episode of the ongoing conflict in the center-right of L’Aquila after the complicated battle against each other for the formation of the new regional council.
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