ROME Meloni on tour for the European Championships. Georgie? No, Arianna. Ready go. From Monday the “sister of Italy” will travel the length and breadth of the country to energize the “patriots” in view of the EU vote and plunder preferences. Cars and trains already booked for a militant trip of the prime minister’s older sister and increasingly helmsman of the party in via della Scrofa, where she has been active all her life, since the days when Giorgia used to put up posters around the headquarters of the Roman right in Colle Oppio, ankle boots and bomber jackets.
Meloni: «Write Giorgia and let’s change Europe. Left in opposition as in Italy”
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She will also be on the field, Arianna, in this month of electoral bullfight towards the polls on 8 June which could revolutionize the political balance in Brussels and will also rearrange them somewhat in Rome, that’s for sure. First appointment: Isernia, Molise. And it is here, on Monday, that the round of plein air rallies will begin to launch FdI’s Eurocandidates and also chant the motto pronounced by the sister-premier on the stage in Pescara, from the beach where she made the fateful announcement two weeks ago: « Write Giorgia on the card.” Then it will be the turn of the Marche and immediately off to Puglia, under the beating sun of Lecce, to fly to Sardinia to Cagliari and then back to the centre-North.
A whirlwind studied in detail to inaugurate a new phase for Arianna, now stable on the command bridge in the party that leads the centre-right, responsible for membership and, since last August, on Giorgia’s indication, also of the secretariat. It’s not a debut and woe betide you to tell him that. Nothing more offensive for someone who has marked his territory for a lifetime, meets militants – increasingly “adoring”, at local conferences they asphyxiate her with selfies and requests for a thaumaturgical touch, a caress – and defines himself as “a soldier”, who loves to work “behind the scenes”.
But it is also inevitable to see, in the Meloni-tour of the “lady of the party cards”, a new page in her political story. Arianna has long tried to deny herself the spotlight – “I’m shy”, she said in Pescara to the Messaggero, once again denying her candidacy with FdI, in Europe or in the Lazio by-elections – she can no longer deny herself. Some of it is the reporters, who suddenly crowd the local conferences, even the dinners and lunches with the militants in which Arianna participates in search of a key, a signal between the lines in the speech of the sister of Italy.
Times are changing a bit and forcing her too, as Giorgia has done all her life, to look at the camera. The baptism of fire in Viterbo, historical fortress of the Lazio right and of the Meloni sisters, at the end of April, amidst handshakes, applause and chants from the leaders at the somewhat read, slightly improvised speech of “Ari”. Tomorrow he will appear at Officine Farneto, in Rome, for the launch of the EU candidates in Lazio and who knows he might not go on stage. From Monday the leap in quality. Nothing is left to chance in the party barracks of the Italian right and certainly not Arianna’s tour. Drawn on the geographical map to bring Meloni’s voice and brand to the electoral campaign in those territories where he can drive and make a difference.
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In the red Puglia of Emiliano overwhelmed by media and judicial scandals, a handful of kilometers from Bari, the capital shaken by the Decaro case and the right is really hoping for a push in the municipal elections in June. Dearest region, Puglia, at the “magic flame” of the prime minister. Even the rally in Cagliari of the eldest of the Meloni family brings with it some expectations. Because together with the European elections, in June, here we vote for the renewal of the city council and the right must try to do an encore, now that the era of Paolo Truzzu, the Melonian mayor who was defeated in his candidacy for the presidency of the Region last February, has passed. And Giorgia? She won’t be there, but she is well aware of the tour that awaits her sister. From the stage in Abruzzo, on the beaches of D’Annunzio where she launched her candidacy, the prime minister had put her hands forward: “I will not take a single minute away from government activity with the electoral campaign.” Duty first, at Palazzo Chigi. Arianna will (also) take care of everything else.
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