Salvini, challenges Bovolone “Duel in the ballot then the match in Verona”
Matteo Salvini with the candidate for mayor of Bovolone Silvia Fiorini DIENNEFOTO
Matteo Salvini with the candidate for mayor of Bovolone Silvia Fiorini DIENNEFOTO
«The match ahead of the Verona elections in 2022? Bowls will be played after Monday’s results. For the moment I have not heard, I have not seen and I have not met anyone. Now I dedicate myself only to Bovolone and the other 40 municipalities that will go to the ballot on 17 and 18 October ». Last night, the federal secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, returned for the second time, in just over three weeks, to the small town of the furniture. But those who qualify as greedy revelations on the hypothesized return to the Carroccio of Flavio Tosi, “purged” in 2015 and now a possible challenger to the outgoing mayor Federico Sboarina, were disappointed. The “Captain”, welcomed by a crowd in the Crosare leisure center in via Ca ‘Persa – apparently chosen in defiance of superstition, perhaps precisely as an antidote to bad luck – after a stop at the Mozzo di Villafontana pasta factory “where pasta is produced only with Veneto wheat “has not dissolved the reserves. The former Minister of the Interior, after a hectic day in Rome Trieste, dedicated himself exclusively to pulling the sprint to Silvia Fiorini, the candidate of the center-right, united for the first time in the political history of Bovolone, who missed by a whisker victory in the first round. And that now he will be able to contend with Orfeo Pozzani, at the head of two civics who stopped at just over 40 percent with a difference of about 600 votes. In the middle there is the first party of the citizen of the furniture, or that of the 5,308 abstentions who have deserted the polls. It is to them that the Carroccio general staff – from the regional commissioner Alberto Stefani to the provincial commissioner Nicolò Zavarise passing through the vice president of the Region Elisa De Berti to the dozen freshly elected mayors of the territory – has addressed a heartfelt appeal to go to the polls at the second shift. An invitation that was also encouraged several times by the “Captain”. «Two weeks ago», Salvini observed, «there was very little victory, now we count on what was needed for the arrival in abundance on Monday». «Whoever votes», he then added, «whoever stays at home loses to an award-winning victory. I will gladly come back after the victory. Here there is a clear and precise idea of the city, there is experience, there is a good team ». And down cheers. “We are here to talk about the future of Bovolone, its hospital, its young people who do not have to flee the territory to go to work elsewhere”, he specified. «Of course, reaching 48.9% in the first round means that it was a divine plan. You must have 15 more days of patience ». Then a recommendation to the 43-year-old social worker paid to politics: “You have to get out of your head to be in the lead and start from 0 to 0. In these five days every single vote won will make a difference.” With this parenthesis closed, and before clear at the table in front of a plate of risotto – «I am hungry to death» – Salvini further put his position on Verona: «From the week we will return to talking about administrative. Veneto will go to the vote in two capital municipalities, in Padua, where we are in opposition but we are already building a good team. And in Verona, where I know that there has been some controversy, there is a few bickering too many, there is some division. I’m interested in the city beyond political equilibrium. I am not interested in party disputes, “he pointed out. “We will see the level of satisfaction of the Veronese with the outgoing administration and then we will start in November with the idea of forming a compact team”. But the phone rang, did you hear Tosi? «Until Monday», the federal secretary glissed, «I answer only to the 40 mayors in the ballot. I’m interested in public works, the citadel of sport, help for traders. I’m interested in the future of Verona ». Finally, an announcement with an incorporated thrust: «We will hold the Lega congresses in all the cities between November and December, by now we have more than 1,500 sections. Whoever is the regional councilor takes care of the Region and whoever is the secretary of Verona takes care of Verona ». Words that cut the head of the stomach ache inside the Carroccio on the sketchy pact with Tosi. And which seem to be aimed in particular by the Paduan councilor Roberto Marcato, who opposes the return of the former mayor of Verona to the League. «I reason», Salvini clarified, «of the present and the future. An autonomist movement is autonomist for that. Everyone does his job ». Then the hug to Silvia Fiorini, who collects the endorsement of the “Captain” and entrusts herself to the abstentions, the truth makes the scales in the ballot. •.