It’s here to stay. Beyond a referendum on justice, the opposition wants to change it to a policy that is fairer to the government. «Only Italians can send me home». Giorgia Meloni goes up decibels from the stage of Tim Teatro in Bari. We are at the last rally of the centre-right for the regional elections on November 23 and 24. And the prime minister took the opportunity to wind down the referendum campaign on toga reform in the spring. This is not a vote against him, as happened to Matteo Renzi nine years ago, he explained. “What are they saying on the left? “Vote no in the referendum to send Meloni home”. But, gentlemen, calm your souls: Meloni, together with the government, will reach the end of the legislature and then ask the Italian people to be judged by the totality of their work”.
TARGET
Robe, CGIL, left and technician. Meloni carefully chose his target in front of two thousand militants gathered in the audience. He returned to attack Maurizio Landini and again carried out a general strike against the Maneuvers called for December 12: «The seventh in three years, always on Friday. Don’t let us have a revolution on Tuesday…» Flags waved and applause erupted. They serve to boost Luigi Lobuono, the businessman launched by the center-right against the gunboat Antonio Decaro, the former mayor of the Apulian capital with half a million preferences in the European elections, the great hope of the broad camp led by Pd-Cinque Stelle. This is a tough challenge for the center-right group in the upcoming elections. But it wasn’t lost in the first place, the prime minister told his supporters. “No outcome was written from the start, no destiny was written.” One by one the coalition leaders took turns taking the stage, the theater walls were covered with posters of shows past and future: Tullio Solenghi, a Gospel choir, tribute bands for Queen and The Beatles, photos of Gigi Proietti, Ligabue and Paolo Conte. They preceded their leader. Lobuono left, with kisses thrown at the audience and hands raised to the sky, like actors at the end of a performance. “The left in Puglia has forgotten the most vulnerable groups, we will deal with it.” But Puglia, here, remains in the background. The applause meter rewards Matteo Salvini. “And Ponteee?” an enthusiastic Northern League supporter shouted from the tunnel. “Bridge? It will give jobs to a lot of young people from Puglia… if they let me do it.” Legitimate defense, fiscal peace, “ideology-free” schools, the “Captain” lays out his cards. And the wild card remains the same as always: immigration. He praised the “Remigration” movement, Trumpism 2.0 which in Europe is converting people to the far right and proposing deporting irregular migrants. «Don’t you respect our history and our Constitution? So get out of the way” shouted Salvini to a standing ovation from the people of Bari. Maurizio Lupi mocked the leftists: «They have ruled Puglia for twenty years and they say that radical changes are necessary..». Antonio Tajani started like this. «There are so many of you, we will fill San Paolo!». It was the stadium in Naples. “Santo Nicholas!” the people of Bari corrected him. The mistake occurred during a tumultuous election campaign that next Friday will come to a halt in the Campanian capital. CGIL was again targeted, “he wants Landini to be the secretary of the Democratic Party in the future” said the Italian leader. To then defend the “manslaughter” maneuver (copyright Giorgetti) carried out by the Bank of Italy, the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Court of Auditors: «We do not want the middle class to become a poor class» said Tajani, claiming personal income tax cuts. This was the terrain Meloni chose for a key part of his speech from Bari. When it comes to finances, the left “has a broken abacus.” Instead he took out a calculator. He showed the numbers: additional funding for health services, increased health care benefits after the law went into waiting lists, tax cuts for “those who earn 2,400 euros a month and maybe have three dependent children, we want to help them”. And if the left accuses him of a “Maneuver” of 18.7 billion euros, the prime minister’s answer will sound like this: it would be a “Manovrone” without the “40 billion euros a year that we have to pay because of Conte’s superbonus”. Between the lines, a blow to the “technical” hand that has befallen his fourth financial company in recent days. “A ploy for the rich? It takes courage to say something like that.”
LEFT AND MAKE-UP
This is the peak. Until the challenge of justice. “Let’s free the judges from the shackles of politicization. We want a judiciary that is not regulated by anyone, free.” But be careful not to overly politicize the appointment. «Vote based on reform content». There is time for personal confidants. «One night a philosopher on TV said that I won because those who did my make-up were so good. Basically you chose me because I wear good makeup. Despite the fact that I did my own makeup and didn’t do it well, do you realize how shallow the reading of these armchair intellectuals is? The left does not listen to the people.” Below the stage, the very loyal secretary, Patrizia Scurti, signaled to him that it was time. The prime minister nodded. «Sorry guys: my plane is leaving». The group took selfies and left in procession for the airport.
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