In the end, the so-called broad front, after the roar in the Chamber as if it had won “a World Cup,” according to the metaphor used negatively by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, risks finding itself a victim of the same illusion experienced on a large scale after the government’s real defeat in the referendum on the justice reform. Now the hope of oppositions divided on everything, starting with who will be their own alternative prime minister candidate leader, relies on the mini-defeat on an amendment, and not on a vote of confidence in the executive, on the electoral law reform, albeit on a central issue like preferences which, however, was already known to be a source of divisions within the center-right.
Certainly, as Meloni says, a “reflection” is needed within the majority and the center-right has not recorded one of its best performances at all. But, in the meantime, yesterday article 1 passed, which is the true heart of the electoral law reform that establishes the majority bonus, to ensure that whoever wins governs and puts an end to the “grand coalitions” that no one voted for, formed in the Palace, and indicates the prime minister candidate on the ballot. With the aim of preventing that “swamp” that Meloni accuses the left of wanting to defend.
The oppositions, divided on everything, rejoice for the majority having gone under the other night by only one vote, now the “right more to the right” agitates like a specter, after the vote that yesterday saw FdI vote for the Vannacciani amendment on preferences, a vote together with Maurizio Lupi’s Moderates, who claim, like FdI, to have given it for consistency on the preferences issue, but which is frankly difficult to see as part of an organic political alliance with Vannacci. Or in any case, to the oppositions asking for immediate elections, it spontaneously comes to ask: but who is your prime minister candidate?
All this while transitional technical governments are dreamed of, early elections in September risking even the Budget law, and much more. Hypotheses from “paper” chatter flatly rejected as unfounded, not very “serious” by an observer from the center-right area like the director of the newspaper Il Tempo, Daniele Capezzone, who was also a politician for a long time, a former long-serving parliamentarian who lucidly and unemotionally knows how to decipher the moods of the Chamber.
The center-right certainly managed the preferences issue badly, but as for the roar of joy coming from the opposition front, one can always use the famous saying that the situation is serious but not serious.
