She is ready to race for the Europeans. He will not be at her side for the photo which aims to symbolize the unity of the centre-right, even if the electoral campaign will see the parties all against all to win the preference race. Giorgia Meloni arrives in the evening in Abruzzo, her constituency, and she refines the speech she will make to announce, in all likelihood, that her name will be her name at the top of the list in all the constituencies. But Matteo Salvini will not be there, having made it known, with an agenda update, that he will be video connected at the end of two days in which the candidacy of General Roberto Vannacci took center stage. Instead there will be others, from Lorenzo Cesa and Maurizio Lupi to Antonio Tajani, who is also running and who will then stop to present the FI candidates in Abruzzo.
No surprise, it was known from the beginning because the leader of the League had “mandatory” personal commitments, both sides said. But it was not specified at the presentation of the event and the announcement comes a few hours after the closing, to which Meloni wanted to invite all the allied leaders.
And the absence is one of those that still makes noise, while questions are being asked, even at Fdi, about the costs/benefits of the general in the field. After Minister Guido Crosetto’s attack, no one in Pescara is exaggerating too much, while the images of the numerous panels on all topics, from the electoral campaign from the birth rate to the Mattei Plan, scroll on the giant screens. Not even on the general’s words, especially on separate classes for disabled students (or on Mussolini as a statesman) who – they say from Abodi to Roccella to Santanchè – are not “shareable”.
Among other things, several cases have broken out. Tommaso Foti’s words on the student protests in universities against the agreements with Israeli universities (“mostly those who are out of course”, perhaps “it was better to send them out to dig?” asks the Fdi group leader in the Chamber) trigger the students’ response ( “in democracies protests and critical debate must be the order of the day”). While the photos of public managers immortalized with Fdi t-shirts with the slogan “Italy changes Europe” trigger questions from the opposition. After a debate on foreign policy, the president of Leonardo Stefano Pontecorvo and the head of the Cybersecurity Agency Bruno Frattasi smile on stage next to Crosetto. But the photo will also be there for the CEO of Fincantieri Pierroberto Folgiero while Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, will avoid the shot, holding the t-shirt which is also delivered to him tightly closed in his hand. “Sterile controversy” of the left, comments the head of the Fdi organization Giovanni Donzelli, recalling the ritual in Atreju of giving t-shirts to all the participants, “even to well-known exponents of the Democratic Party, who thank goodness did not join Fdi for this reason” . And Defense Minister Crosetto also explains on with the event t-shirt”.
Once the programmatic insights have been concluded, however, now it will be the leader’s turn. Superstitionally, no one confirms his candidacy but everyone hopes and believes so. In any case, Meloni will make a speech entirely focused on the “concrete” results achieved by the government in the first 18 months: “we are working for the Italians, give us strength” he will repeat as on other similar occasions in the speech which will mark the opening of the campaign election for the vote on 8 and 9 June. While they wait for it, the party is finalizing the lists, which will be presented between now and May 1st. Then she could participate in another major event to close the electoral campaign and little else, says those who have spoken to her in recent days, also because she does not want to give the impression of neglecting her first commitment, which is that of the government, in the weeks in which, moreover, the Italian presidency of the G7 also comes into its own. The campaign will be up to ministers, parliamentarians and party leaders, who could reproduce the scheme of the various Pescara panels in the territories.
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