TREVISO – «If Rome were not to respect the will of the Venetians, who, like all of us, would still like Luca Zaia, a force deeply rooted among the people would certainly have a consensus that would not fear any confrontation». Alberto Villanova, regional councilor president of the Lega-Liga Veneta intergroup, launches the challenge within the centre-right. In fact, there is an either/or. In the lagoon the dream of being able to have a Zaia’s third term. If it doesn’t exist, however, let us know urbi et orbi che the Carroccio is ready to run alone, against everything and everyone, in next year’s regional elections. The objective, without mincing words, is to keep Palazzo Balbi. After last weekend’s European Championships, the competition with Fratelli d’Italia has become heated. Meloni’s party, counting the votes, would like to move on to having won the right to nominate one of its own men or women as president of the Region. But the League is putting its foot down more than ever. The fuse was lit by Alberto Stefani: the Venetian secretary of the League did not rule out the possibility of a solo path in an interview with the Gazzettino. “Territorial identity paths”, he calls them.
The dream of Zaia’s third term
The desire not to abdicate in favor of the allies, handing over the candidacy after the Zaia era, is anything but a joke. The confirmation comes from the burden placed by Villanova in the name of supremacy in the consensus on the territory compared to that on the general political level. «The strength of the League has always been and still is its strength today rooted in the territory. The hypothesis launched by the secretary Stefani in view of the next regional elections falls within this trend, which has always been the social object of a movement like ours, says the group leader. It is no coincidence that where the League presents capable and deeply rooted administrators , recognition from the voters arrives. And it is no coincidence that the governor of the Region, the highest expression of work in the territory, the most loved in Italy, is from Veneto”. That is Zaia. The analysis of the result of the European elections, compared to the Fratelli d’Italia numbers, goes accordingly. «We saw it clearly in this last round too: the strength of the symbol, in the wake of the moment, can bring an advantage in a national competition, underlines Villanova, but at a local level it’s the people, their history, their abilities that count. Even more so, this could be decisive in 2025.”
The centre-right
Paradoxically, now it is the Brothers of Italy who are preaching calm. «I believe that now we must dedicate all our energies to reuniting the centre-right is the invitation of Luca De Carlo, senator and regional coordinator of Meloni’s party, let’s focus on the runoffs. I, like the whole party, am focused on this today and don’t dedicate energy to anything else.” Relaxing tones from FdI’s point man in Veneto and one of the possible future candidates for the presidency of the Region in place of Zaia. However, there is a joke about the idea of the League running alone towards Palazzo Balbi: «The solitaire with the cards», De Carlo himself jokes, but up to a certain point.
Brothers of Italy
What is certain is that Fratelli d’Italia does not want to be indicated as the force that gets votes at a national level but is detached from the territory. «The work of Prime Minister Meloni and FdI is for the good of Italy, of the Venetians and of all Italians. Only in this way can we explain that from 32% in the 2022 political elections we went to 37% in the 2024 European elections, the first region in Italy for percentages of Brothers of Italy – he makes it clear Nicola Fantuzzi, mayor of San Polo di Piave, spokesperson for the FdI mayors, we remind our Northern League allies, terrified of losing the presidency of the Region, that in 2009 – when the previous year it had obtained just 8% of the votes for policies – the League he obtained the presidency to the detriment of the PDL which still held over 38%, thanks to a Berlusconi-Bossi political agreement. We believe that everyone must come to terms with the fact that today almost a million Venetians have unequivocally decided that the reference party in Veneto is the Brothers of Italy. With all due respect to all our allied friends, with whom we will discuss visions, ideas and projects for the future of Veneto.”
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