Lega, from the rapporteur of the maneuver to the group leader in the Senate: all the tensions in the party

The air is getting heavy in the League. Starting from the maneuver. With the requests sent to Giancarlo Giorgetti to increase the allocation of the three-year fund by 850 million for pensions, to allow people to leave at 64, and to eliminate cuts in schools. Pressure on the Minister of Economy also passed through the rotation of the Northern League rapporteur for the budget law. Alberto Gusmeroli (head of the party's Economy department and head of the Finance commission) has in fact replaced the "Giorgettian" Silvana Comaroli, who was also rapporteur two years ago, in the running. A turning point that provoked criticism from the opposition ("So Salvini commissioner Giorgetti. I find it unworthy that the president of another commission commissioners the deputies for a redde rationem in the League", attacked Elena Bonetti of Azione).

The showdown in the party

The post-Congress showdown began at Palazzo Madama. With the majority of the senators of the group having signed to ask for the removal as group leader of the "rebel" Massimiliano Romeo (the most popular to take his place is the Friulian Marco Dreosto), sponsor of the candidacy of Massimo Garavaglia and leader of the Northern dissidents defeated at the congress which reconfirmed Matteo Salvini as leader of the party ten days ago. Romeo has no intention of resigning and is waiting for the redde rationem in the group meeting before taking a step back. Among the hypotheses that have been circulating is also that of the Lombard League being placed under commissionership, again led by Romeo, to send an even clearer signal against the leader of the protesters of Salvini's leadership, in tandem with the governor Attilio Fontana.

Political secretariat to be defined

The showdown was greeted with "regret" by Garavaglia: "Evidently - he attacked - there is no desire to unite as I thought had emerged from the congress", but to "widen the gap in positions in the party". His entry into the League executive is now more difficult. After Salvini's opening entrusted to Bruno Vespa's book ("if Garavaglia agrees, he will enter the secretariat"), while waiting for the proposal to be made official, the former Minister of Tourism had in fact linked the possible acceptance to the recomposition of internal tensions. Former Doge Luca Zaia would be available to accept Salvini's invitation to join the team. But there are no recent official contacts between the two. Among the names in question are the outgoing deputy secretaries Claudio Durigon and Silvia Sardone, and the group leader in the Chamber Maurizio Molinari. But the identikit of the 9 members of the new body wanted by the Northern League leader to "expand the team" is still a puzzle.