It’s as if you wanted to stop the waves of the sea with your hands. This is the feeling when scrolling through social media at the moment, seeing how posts follow one another seamless invitation to voteof all political parties. How then to apply the law of silence which is one law of 1956, or when television was just born? Nobody respected her.
The (theoretical) sanctions
There were those who and how against Matteo Salvini’s violation of the rules Angelo Bonelli, leader of the Greens, called for the intervention of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi. But the truth is the maximum penalty expected in this case it is a fine of 1,032 euros, assuming it is applied.
Elly Schlein, however, remained silent. The Democratic secretary showed up at her polling station in Bologna when it had just opened and dodged the reporters. The prime minister remained in her institutional role. After the video with the cherry gag, Giorgia Meloni limited herself to the polling station launch a general appeal, indicating the times to vote. The fruit gesture was a superstitious gesture, she had done it for the 2022 elections, when she had herself photographed with two melons. For these European Championships you chose the «Giorgia variety» cherries.
The other leaders
Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda they didn’t need flashes of imagination. The leader of Italia viva, allied with Emma Bonino’s +Europa, and the leader of Action, without allies, showed up at their seats respectively followed by their children. Who knows if one knew about the other: both Ester Renzi and Giulio Calenda are eighteen year olds voting for the first time. Ester Renzi, then, turned eighteen just yesterday. Curious coincidence, that you always have to put Renzi and Calenda in front of each other.
Emma Bonino at her polling station near Campo de’ Fiori she showed up accompanied by the secretary of +Europa Riccardo Magi. She also made an appeal without any indication of voting: «If you are at home, hurry up, if you haven’t done so yet, do it quickly, but go and vote. Everyone go and vote.” Even Magi limited himself to generic exhortations. From his seat in the Monteverde district of Rome he wanted to remember how this vote decides the future of Europe. Giuseppe Conte he voted in Rome, at the Virgilio high school. His comment entrusted to «X» was laconic: «I voted and you? Good luck to everyone.”
In the end almost all the leaders voted. Bonelli from Rovereto, while Cateno De Luca, leader of the South calls the North to Fiumendinisi, in the Messina area. And he approached the vote in the Sicilian way: before the polling station coffee, then beard and hair, claiming that the best polls are obtained at the barber.
Polling stations will remain open until 11pm and there is no need for predictions, even today social media will continue to be more effective than any rally. It is the Ministry of the Interior that must monitor electoral silence, also on social media, recalls Agcom commissioner Antonello Giacomelli. In what way we don’t know. When the law was written, in 1956, the Internet was not even in the predictions of the seers.
