In Milan 35% of crimes are committed by foreigners. Everywhere, citizens demand security. This is how some mayors react, while the government prepares decrees against young delinquents. This is what the fate of the next votes will depend on.
In the alleys around Montecitorio, between discreet meetings and noisy tables, nothing else is talked about. When will we vote? Politics fibrillates. After the approval of the Stabilicum, the elections seem to be approaching. Is it better then next May, combining the session with the administrative elections? Or June? The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, dismisses the inexhaustible chatter: “Surreal”. He suggests that he is looking forward to the natural expiration of his mandate: autumn 2027, therefore. Whatever happens, the electoral campaign seems to have already begun. And the polls confirm: the decisive issue will be safety. After the worries about price increases, the anxieties are the aggression on the doorstep, the indiscriminate threat, the degradation of the city.
Violent, bullies, illegal immigrants. And the now mythological Maranza, of course: from Vigevano to Misilmeri, their brutal criminal actions echo daily. From a social phenomenon, praised by rappers in triacetate, it is now an established emergency. The mayors, besieged by violence and complaints, begin to issue stentorian ordinances. The decision of Paolo Longhi, the Melonian who leads Legnago, is destined to set a precedent, for example. In the municipality of Verona, he revoked financial contributions to the families of two young men accused of attacking a tobacconist and mugging an elderly woman. The group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber, Galeazzo Bignami, then presents an even more stringent bill to Montecitorio: the subsidies must be removed automatically by law, without letting the administrators decide. In Cadoneghe, in the Padua area, they instead denied citizenship to a woman: she didn’t understand Italian well. It’s a lock pick. The denial could also be extended to the less peaceful.
The rocky and pyrotechnic mayor of Terni, Stefano Bandecchi, exemplifies: to become Italian you will need to know national history and culture. Mario Conte, calm Northern League mayor of Treviso and president of the Anci in Veneto, sinks: it is necessary to remove citizenship not only from Maranza people, but even from their parents. And in Parliament the Northern League proposes not to grant it to foreign minors who commit crimes, starting with drug dealers and criminals. The welcoming, very broad camp, which covets the votes of immigrants, is obviously indignant. From the dioscuri of Avs, Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, to the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein.
Yet, as the progressive turbo who hopes to face the prime minister likes to repeat, the “numbers are stubborn”. Precisely. The latest Crime Index of Il Sole 24 Ore confirms that almost half of the crimes reported are concentrated in large cities: Milan, Florence, Rome, Bologna, Turin. All led by the center-left. The Lombardy capital, where crimes are on the rise, tops the ranking. And crimes committed by foreigners are growing: those reported, arrested or stopped have reached 35.1 percent of the total.
Next year there will also be voting in many of these cities. In Milan the electoral campaign is already roaring. Precisely in the name of safety. Already in the summer, General Roberto Vannacci decided to launch the candidate of National Future: the former peer on leave Carmelo Burgio. This is followed by announcements of “roundups” in Rogoredo, the drug forest. With the general promising: «With him Milan will return to being the city of the Madonnina and not of the Maranza. Trust Burgio and you will see him turned inside out.” Now the center-right is also under attack. The League launches MEP Silvia Sardone, already crowned in the gazebos, the undisputed standard-bearer of the fight against maranza and Islamism. Forza Italia replies with the elegant Matteo Perego from Cremnago. And the leader of Noi Moderati, Maurizio Lupi, also remains on track. Who will win? In the polls the resolute Sardone seems to be winning by a landslide. As proof of the priorities snubbed by the expiring mayor, Beppe Sala. The League therefore boldly calls for primaries, not exactly a specialty of the house.
The center-left mentions the topic with caution. The only and very large exception thus becomes the former Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca. The “sheriff” is back in town. As soon as he was re-elected mayor of his Salerno, he begins an all-out fight against his bitter enemies: illegal car parkers, vu’ cumprà, illegal immigrants. He even establishes a fierce team of twenty brave policemen under his strict control. Once again: order and discipline. Someone on the left understands the nonsense. And he indicates him as the only one capable of redressing the fortunes of the spineless Campo Largo.
The government instead relaunches. Close to the vote, the approval of the anti-maranza decree is also expected: interventions against youth gangs and extension of preventive detention to minors. At Palazzo Chigi they are convinced of this. The global economy is struggling. The wars continue. The energy crisis bites. We must persevere with safety. Fratelli d’Italia organizes gazebos and initiatives. After approving the ban on the burqa at school and the cap on foreigners in classes, the “No one remains hidden” campaign begins: a collection of signatures “against the use of the full veil in public places”.
It’s not just Italy that is preparing to vote. Between autumn 2026 and 2027, eight European countries will go to the polls. And everywhere the fight against immigration will be decisive. In Spain, after the resignation of the socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez, there will be elections on November 29, 2026. The polls give the People’s Party at 32 percent and the right-wing Vox at 19. Together, they would have an absolute majority. The leader of the nationalist party, Santiago Abascal, promises immediate repatriation and remigration. And after the invasion of Ceuta, his consensus grows. Forcing the EPP to move to the right so as not to hand the country back to “Vinavil” Sánchez, so called due to his attachment to the Moncloa sillón and already at the helm of the «Frankenstein government» with Hamas fans and Catalan secessionists.
The right seems destined to triumph in France too. The Rassemblement national flies. And Marine Le Pen remains the favorite in the polls for the presidential elections in April 2027. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz should remain so until 2029. But the government is losing pieces and the CDU is losing seats. The victory of Alternative für Deutschland in Saxony-Anhalt was sensational. The ultra-right triumphed with 44.6 percent, while the Teutonic Christian Democrats collapsed to historic lows. But the future, for the chancellor’s party, seems even more troubled.
And in Italy? So will we vote in spring or autumn? The dispute, as we have seen, has begun. The government, despite the contingency, is preparing a budget with fewer taxes: for the middle class and young people, above all.
And then there’s security. A lot, damn it and immediately. As the Italians hope. On these promises, Vannacci built Future National. It evokes remigration and intransigence. In a few months, one proclamation after another, his party reached eight percent. Now it would be decreasing, pollsters certify. And the center-right swears that there will be no agreement. Certain differences remain apparently irremediable. See the foreign policy of the general, accused of pro-Putinism for the proposal to buy Russian gas.
The growth of the Futurists, however, convinced the Brothers of Italy and the League to start ahead. Security and immigration, the historic workhorses. The general’s advance may slow down. In the meantime, it is urgent to fight the bad guys in triacetate.
