Who won and who lost the European elections (not only in Italy)

With ballots not yet completed, as I write, but far enough ahead to allow a realistic vision of the results, it can be said that the European elections of this 2024 have marked the defeat of German Chancellor Scholz, and of the left represented by him, at a continental level, and of French President Emmanuel Macron, overwhelmed in France by Marine Le Pen’s right.

At the Italian level – unfortunately with voter turnout falling to 49.67 percent from 54.5 in the previous electoral round, in 2019 – there are two winners. On the right is naturally Giorgia Meloni, who rose from 6.5 in the previous European elections and from 26 in the 2022 political elections to around 29, if not higher. The Northern League allies were about twenty points behind, and were overtaken by the Forzi supporters thanks also to the emblematic vote, to say the least, of Umberto Bossi for his extremely loyal past to the party that was once owned by Silvio Berlusconi, and now now firmly led by Antonio Tajani.

On the left, the winner in Italy is the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, who brought the Nazarene – despite a leap by the red-greens of Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli to well above the threshold of 4 – to around 25 percent of the votes, exceeding , beyond the modest 19 percent of the policies of two years ago, even the 22.7 of the previous European ones. But above all, relegating the 5 Star Movement to below or around 10 percent, from 17.1 in the previous European elections and from 15.4 in the 2022 elections.

Giuseppe Conte, the former prime minister and now president of Beppe Grillo’s party, has imposed – his kindness – a “reflection” in the face of the “unquestionable” and negative evaluation of the voters, to whom he had proposed , despite clarifications and reductive jokes, as federator, leader and the like of a possible alternative cartel to the center-right led, now more than before, by Giorgia Meloni.

The Prime Minister, or just Giorgia as she prefers to be called, naturally made a point of boasting about her success, which was even more gratifying for her in the face of the difficulties caused to her at the end of the electoral campaign by her competing allies and even by the brothers themselves. party, let’s call them that. And she plans to preside over the G7 in Puglia in a few days like the peahen, complete with an unfolded wheel proposed by Emilio Giannelli in the front page cartoon of Corriere della Seradespite calling her Le Pen in the title, winner in France – I repeat – over a Macron who was also forced to resort to early internal elections to attempt an albeit unlikely revenge.