Exactly one week before the elections of 25 September , Matteo Salvini calls his people from the “sacred soil” of the Po Valley, Enrico Letta to Monza, not even 35 kilometers away.
"I, Giorgia and Silvio agree on almost everything and for 5 years we will govern well and together", the leader of the League marks the stage of Pontida , the meeting in the Bergamo area that marks the great comeback after the long Covid break. The last time in Pontida the number one of the Carroccio had just left the Interior Ministry saying goodbye to the government. Three years later, on the same stage, Matteo Salvini is ready to return together with the center-right.
"No jokes or changes of shirt. What is on the program is sacred", he reiterates. Then, for the benefit of cameras and photographers, he asks his ministers and governors to sign the 6 points in which he focuses the party's priorities . A commitment "to take this country by the hand" signed in front of 100 thousand militants.
The themes are those reiterated many times in the electoral campaign: from the stop to the expensive nuclear bills, from the flat tax at 15% and fiscal peace at Quota 41, from the restoration of the Security and just justice decrees up to regional autonomy.
Also on stage was the president of the Sardinia Region Christian Solinas ("We believe in the strategic alliance Psd'Az-Lega") and of Veneto Luca Zaia who was unleashed on autonomy, stopped at the referendum voted there in 2014. The Captain then launches a Another proposal: to cancel the Rai license fee from the electricity bills , which was introduced by the Renzi government and which according to the party is worth 1.7 billion a year. "It can be done, 10 other countries do it", explains the secretary and remarks: "Ninety euros for a pensioner and an unemployed person means shopping three times more".
LETTA IN MONZA - The Democratic Party pulls the final sprint in Lombardy and challenges the Pontida League from the central square of Monza , with the secretary Enrico Letta and 500 between mayors and local administrators: "There is no destiny already written - remarks Letta - if we want this destiny to change, and we want it ". "Pontida today has become a province of Hungary - says Letta on his arrival in Monza with the electric bus of the electoral campaign - while Monza is a European city and we do not want an Italy that is linked to Hungary as Salvini wanted to propose today. to do".
In Piazza Roma there are many center-left mayors , from that of Milan, Beppe Sala, to that of Florence, Dario Nardella, up to those of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori, and of Ancona, Valeria Mancinelli, while Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome and Antonio Decaro, mayor of Bari and president of Anci are connected. In all there are twenty interventions by the first citizens and administrators before Enrico Letta climbs up on the stage to conclude the event.
For the secretary of the Democratic Party , Monza is the "symbol of what will happen on Sunday" because it was precisely in the capital city of Brianza at the administrative offices in June that the center-left tore the city from the center-right , with the victory of the mayor Paolo Pilotto, even if the polls gave it at a disadvantage. "We are in Monza - explains Letta - because we have decided to choose a city that symbolizes good governance but above all a city that the right was sure of winning in the first round". This is why Monza becomes "the square of the rescue" and the Democratic Party "the only real big national party" because Italy that gathers in Pontida "is not going anywhere - continues the secretary - there is no Northern party against party of the South because Italy is one and united ".
(Unioneonline / D)