While the League announces that in the next few days Matteo Salvini will convene the Federal Council to talk about the future of the coalition and a medium-long term project - but only with those who are "genuinely interested" - Giorgia Meloni removes more than a pebble from her shoes after the re-election of president Sergio Mattarella and the "defeat" of the Northern League leader's strategy.
"The center-right has to be refounded and this is what I am working on from today - he scans in a direct Facebook -. To no longer be treated from top to bottom by an increasingly presumptuous left: pulverized in Parliament but a majority in the country".
"Nothing is lost - he adds - do not get discouraged, but we work, we must not bend: we must believe in what you say, if you believe in it, you do it".
Then his reading of how things went: "We lacked 55 votes but they could be found: I asked the center-right to present one of our candidates to the third call to prove they had our votes, but they told us that it was not possible , there were no conditions ".
On the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati “there was a lack of 70 votes from the center-right on the candidate from the center-right. So we got weak. "
At the last summit of his coalition, he continued, “we were all against Mattarella's re-election. So much so that I made a joke: 'We can't vote no to Mattarella', then I don't know what happened, and I still don't know ".
"WASTED OPPORTUNITY" - The leader of the Brothers of Italy is even tougher in an interview with Corriere: "Today the center-right as we have seen it is gone", is the attack. It was a "huge wasted opportunity" to be able to elect an area figure. "We had the numbers, as a relative majority, at least to give the cards. But many in the coalition did not want it," reconstructs the conservative leader.
He did not expect the fallback of the League secretary Matteo Salvini on the encore. "I didn't understand it, I find it incomprehensible. I found out from the agencies that Mattarella would have voted. The only hypothesis to which all the leaders of the center-right had said no with apparent conviction," he says. The two have not clarified: "On the other hand I don't think there is much to be clarified", explains Meloni. "Not at this moment", she, Salvini and Berlusconi are not allies, she says. "It seems to me that they preferred the alliance with the center-left, both for Draghi and for Mattarella".
And he attacks: "They traded seven years as President of the Republic for seven months of legislature, or if you want a salary".
(Unioneonline / D)