The political climate is heating up day after of the administrative runoffswon by the center-left in all cases six the regional capitals to the vote. Celebrating the result, the dem secretary Elly Schlein launches the challenge to the majority: “There was one failure of the right on the territories due to the wrong choices of the government and its allies. The message is clear: we are coming. Enough with cuts to healthcare, with low wages, with autonomy,” he says in a press conference at the Nazarene. For Schlein, the outcome of the municipal elections “shows that the right can be beaten. We won in all six regional capitals, in one you’re at zero tennisand we have three female mayors (Vittoria Ferdinandi in Perugia, Sara Funaro in Florence and Marialuisa Forte in Campobasso, ed), which makes me very happy. We have demonstrated our ability to build winning coalitions around credible candidates. They will no longer be able to say that they are united and we are divided. Was a team victory“, he claims. And he insists on the unity of “wide field” with the 5 Star Movement and the Green-Left Alliance, taking up the appeal already launched from the stage of the demonstration on 18 June in Rome: “The time of vetoes is over, we will continue stubbornly unitary. Let’s get used to doing theanalysis of the victorybecause we will continue to beat the right.”
For his part Giorgia Meloni attacks with a video published on social media and dedicated todifferentiated autonomy, the flagship reform of the League definitively approved last week. Regarding the law, says the prime minister, “the opposition uses irresponsible people civil war tones because he has no arguments on the merits. I think that the violent tones that the left uses on autonomy, but also on all other reforms, are nothing more than a desperate defense of the status quo. We promised to change things and we will move forward without being intimidated. Regarding the premiership they accuse us of an authoritarian drift, then it turns out that Achille Occhetto also wanted it, thirty years ago, in practice Occhetto was ahead of Elly Schlein”, he provokes, referring to the constitutional reform proposal put forward by the then leader of the PDS in 1994. “I don’t know what film Meloni is seeing, it’s not the first time he’s raised alarms. I wouldn’t want it to be an attempt to distract attention from the results of the right by talking about something else”, is Schlen’s response to those who ask her for a comment on the prime minister’s accusations. “I don’t follow you on this because I’m not a jukeboxbut we are fighting on substantive topics, there is not one in which alongside the criticism we have not proposed the alternative. I understand that it is difficult to accept the resounding defeat, but it is not referring to us, they have never been our tones”, states the dem secretary.
