After the post-European “mutual compliments”, in the aftermath of the ballots rags fly between Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein. She is the prime minister, with a video posted early in the morning on social media, who was the first to launch the attack. The FdI leader returns to defend, as a “patriot”, differentiated autonomy and accuses the opposition of being “nervous” and using “irresponsible civil war tones”. Meloni recalls those in the Chamber who evoked Piazzale Loreto – «in practice I should be massacred and hung upside down», the underlining – and the «proscription lists of the left» on the parliamentarians from the South who voted for the Calderoli bill « to incite hatred towards them.” In short, for the prime minister, there is a left that is becoming radicalized and that uses “violent words and ways” to mount “a desperate defense of the status quo”. Schlein, however, does not intend to fall into what he likes to call the ‘jukebox trap’ of the prime minister. «I don’t know what film Meloni is seeing, it’s not the first time she’s raised alarms. Everyone analyzes the defeat with the tools they have. I understand it’s difficult to digest the resounding defeat and the attempt to get people talking about something else after a 6-0 tennis win”, he cuts short. In short, the dem leader intends to continue to carry forward in a “stubbornly united” way the battles supported throughout the electoral campaign. «The message to Giorgia Meloni is clear: enough with the cuts to healthcare, enough with the autonomy that is splitting the country. The message is renewed: ‘We’re just getting there,’ she insists. The FdI leader also criticizes Schlein about the premiership. «They accuse us of authoritarian drift, then it turns out that Achille Occhetto’s PDS also proposed it about 30 years ago. In practice, Achille Occhetto was much ahead of Elly Schlein”, she attacks.
Also in this case the reply from the Democratic secretary is not long in coming. “Meloni seems a bit short on arguments to me,” he cuts short, before pointing the finger at the proposal from the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa for a “reflection” on the electoral law for mayors and a revision of the double shift. «It’s not like elections are abolished when you lose – he thunders -. He doesn’t run away with the ball in his hands. It’s not the voters’ fault that the right lost, it’s their fault. We are not on board, and we find it serious and inappropriate that the second-largest state official talks about changing the rules a few minutes after the defeat, the sense of the institutions is missing.” There is also irony in the different reading of the results from the two sides. Donzelli says they won 4 to 3? «I want to offer Davide Baruffi’s availability to understand how the elections went», says Schlein, leaving the dem local authorities manager to think about numbers. «I take the abacus but it’s easy – he replies -, we went from 13 to 13 to 17 to 10. Sometimes you have to defend the bin even when it’s empty». «We also questioned ourselves – added Schlein -, Donzelli was going crazy and we didn’t understand, but he was wrong. We scored a tennis-like six-nil in the capitals and took six cities from the right, while they took three from us.” Tomorrow, in the Chamber, during the communications ahead of the European Council, a new confrontation between the two leaders will take place. In fact, after listening to the prime minister, Schlein will declare his vote for the Democratic Party. M5S leader Giuseppe Conte will also speak. Because, assures the PD leader, “united we win”.
