The nickname varies with latitudes, but the unprecedented sense of loss is the same. The doge, the sheriff and the gladiator. Their power seemed inscribable. Instead, it is about to set. It will vote in October, it seems. The exact date matters little, though. They fought to the end: interviews, provocations, appeals. It is not served. Two mandates can be enough.
It dissolves like this The muscle kingdom of Michele Emiliano in Puglia. The curtain falls on Macchiectistic Empire by Vincenzo De Luca in Campania. Tail securities also for Luca Zaia’s undisputed domain in Veneto. Nobody has embodied the three territorial supremacy better than the three deposits: geometric and plebiscite. Scarce national ambitions. Total domain in protectorates. Abject, suddenly, looks like an apocalyptic event.
See Michele Emiliano: one decade as governor, another as mayor of Bari. Twenty years on the breach. And no desire to get aside. Hic Manebimus Optimesaid that centurion, in the face of the intention to transfer the Roman Senate. And also the gladiator of the Tavoliere is divinely in his Puglia, despite some stumbling blocks at the end of his career.
The most choreographic is the professional Liaison with the crackling Nancy of the oil, hired as an ambassador of the region in the world. He accuses him of having made the provolone, moreover in the absence of the agreed contractual renewal. In short, a kind of Boccia-Sangiulian affair with turnip greens. Or not. The contours fade. Emiliano also fades. Then the investigations into the loyalists. Until the incredible boast of having asked for protection from a sister of the boss Capriati for Antonio Decaro, the undisputed heir: mayor after him and now candidate governor.
“I know all children to me” In fact, he repeats, while the mandate drips. “I was the prior, I will be simple friar” adds the Apulian president with modesty. Armed with this unprecedented humility, it is therefore ready to “Give a hand to the center -left”. Aims to the full preferences to the next regional ones, where he will apply how simple councilor. It is about to say, simple. His civic list, name on the card “With”boasts dozens of local administrators throughout the region. In short: The “Emilian model” perpetrated Saecula Saeculorum.
There is worse. In the elections it could face his illustrious predecessorhe too is very busy avoiding oblivion: Nichi Vendolaalready governor in the previous decade. He also aspiring adviser, therefore, with identical and remarkable closets.
The indiscretion runs from Old Bari to Japigia: he will be the leader of the left Italy, the part of the part of which he is president. Unsurpassed master of the Aulica Supercazzola, Vendola explains: «It is something that questions my conscience, because it is not only the party that asks me. I am receiving a continuous stress on the street “. In short: it was for him, given the famous austerity, he would gladly decline. But they evoke it like Cassano in good times. What can it do, if not to give in? «Resisting in every way to the candidacy proposal that the companions of Puglia address me. But I’m a party man … “. In short, it seems that it will be motionless.
A further detail adds more pathos to the irreperable returned: The illustrious contenders hate each other. When they asked Nichi if he saw himself in coalition with Michelone, he did not hold back: “Do you have a reserve question?”. At the moment, however, the only reserves seem to them: passed by center forward on benchesfrom Viceroy in Gregarifrom indispensable to redundant.
It seems little about the Psychodrama that lives the sheriff. De Luca He has been afraid in Campania since 1993, when he was elected mayor of Salerno for the first time. Three reconfirmations followed and then the current decade as governor. Given the North Korean attitude, an exotic nickname gave him: Vin Chen Zin. He, President-Cabarettista, gatrated: “We are on the Kim II-Sung line”.
He wanted to recover forever, against all adversities. He hoped until the definitive sentence of the Consulta: impossible. And now, later thirty -two years of reckless powerwhat do you do? Elly Schlein hates him. In his honor, he coined the worst anathema uttered in these two years spent at the helm of the Nazarene: cacicco. A medal, for Don Vincenzo.
Despite the 75 years of age, he is ready to challenge any adversity. AND The last of the Japanese. Like Hiroo Onada, the nipponic army’s retirement lieutenant who fought the Second World War for another 29 years.
First point. Will it not be him? Then it must be someone like him. A very faithful, to put it euphemistically. Certainly not a name dropped from Rome. The chosen one, rather, must be “Able to hold and continue the program started”. Imagine. Elly wants the exact opposite: absolute discontinuity.
But Campania is decisive for another reason: trying to strengthen The slender alliance between Schlein and Giuseppe Contethe leader of the Five Stars. Gaetano Manfredi, mayor of Naples, is the illustrious example of the Concordia episode. He urges repeating the region, with a candidate very welcome to him, among other things: The former President of the Chamber, Roberto Ficoalready Arcigrillino. That is: the politician most hated by the sheriff.
What a break. “I cannot support people in discontinuity with our programs” threatens De Luca. «For example, if someone tells me that he wants to close the Acerra waste -to -energy plant, I can’t agree. Let’s go back to the waste on the street? “. Here, do you know who someone is? Fig, of course.
As, Vin chen zin meditates the horse move. Cann’t he run for the third term? Well, indeed bad. But the associates could apply. And maybe he too. To scar. To break out. Its three lists, let it leak, would vary 15 percent.
To break the dreams of glory of the wide pitch, it would even launch A Deluchiano Ortodosso to the presidency. Even if, as expected, even the unspeakable begin to reposition themselves. See the regional councilor Franco Picarone. Until the day before the sentence, he was more devoted to him than the same offspring. Now informs: “The five -star alliance is good and right”.
After all, wherever you breathe air from the end empire. Even in Veneto. Zaia He fought with audacity, hoping for the unlikely miracle. He took it very badly, but he just has Fifty -seven years. In Italian politics, at that age, you are still young.
Unlike the two southern viceroy, it enjoys transversal estimate. The League leader, Matteo Salvinisuffers a bit its remarked autonomy. However, the votes of Veneto had the shack keep the shack in the north.
The doge of Conegliano governs by three mandates, thanks to the derogation granted by a diabolical quibble. Boasts a gigantic consensus. The last time, in 2020, he triumphed with a stratospheric 76 percent. Then, at the last European, the unexpected happens: Fratelli d’Italia flows: 37 percent.
For this, Giorgia Meloni’s party dreams of one of his candidates. In the face of the churies resistance of the allies, however, it is willing to grant continuity. In return, he will get the candidacy for Lombardy in 2028. On the chosen one, of course, Zaia will have to rest the sword: it will therefore be the secretary of the Liga Veneta, Alberto Stefanior the mayor of Treviso, Mario Conte?
And what will the doge do? The mayor of Venice? A little, perhaps. Even if it would be the only way not to move away from the well -beloved region. Or the president of theEniPerhaps? Too much representation for an action man like him.
So, it would only be Rome: a ministry, sooner or later.
Also here, meanwhile, the first signs of failure are seen. The Carroccio has already lost two regional councilors, passed between the Melonian ranks: Marco Andreoli and Silvia Rizzotto. Three more would be ready to follow them. Zaia thus recalled his prophecy: “Five years ago, when I nominated them on the list for the regional ones, I said:” In the last six months of mandate, some of you will go away “”.
Much more than a doge. Almost a messiah.
