ANCONA – The long wave of the elections risks hitting Palazzo Leopardi. In the Marche the League managed to avoid being overtaken by Forza Italia, placing itself behind only the elusive Fratelli d’Italia. And this has reinvigorated the regional secretariat of the Carroccio which was one step away from being defenestrated. But to truly stay afloat, it must regain ground where it has almost completely lost it. In the legislative assembly, precisely, where the party underwent a significant pre-election diaspora and now no longer has the golden share it won at the 2020 regional elections with the help of votes.
Before the polls
A few days before the European and administrative rounds, three regional councilors left the League in open controversy with the regional secretary Giorgia Latini: Marco Marinangeli, Lindita Elezi and Mirko Bilò (the latter given a step away from Forza Italia). For the moment the trio is placed in the mixed group, which is about to become even more crowded. In fact, with the election of Northern League member Luca Serfilippi as mayor of Fano, Giovanni Dallasta, who has already left the Northern League some time ago, will enter Palazzo Leopardi. Thus, the ranks of secretary Latini’s team are further thinned. Translated: if before the League could count on a relative majority, now it has gone significantly lower in terms of numbers, crushed by the specific weight of FdI and the internal crisis. Now Giorgia Meloni’s party can count on eight voting councilors (including the governor Francesco Acquaroli), while the Northern League has slipped from nine to five. An imbalance that will practically no longer allow the League to touch the ball. Secretary Latini knows this well, she doesn’t want to be pushed into a corner and seven months after the council’s attempted reshuffle, which collapsed against Acquaroli’s shield, she is apparently working on a new coup. A coup, this time: essentially, he would have asked (to use a euphemism, it seems that the language was different) the Councilor for Culture and Education Chiara Biondi to resign and return to sitting on the bench as a councillor. It is no mystery to anyone that there is bad blood between the two, but the motivation for the diktat is different: Biondi’s step backwards would throw Elezi out of the assembly (she entered the Palace only after the promotion to councilor of the now former party colleague), causing the League to regain an advisor. A punishment for the spill and an extra point in the regional abacus, in short. Great maneuvers to try to bring the checks and balances of the majority back into balance.
The previous
Between saying and doing, however, Acquaroli is involved, who doesn’t even think about touching his council. And if he managed to block the first coup when the League had strength in numbers in the Council, why should he give in now that he has an absolute majority? It is true that the Northern League of the Marche did not collapse in the European elections, but with its 8% it will hardly be able to dictate the line to the governor in FdI’s share, with 32.9% of the votes. The math is not an opinion. Not even political geography.
