Not the mortal embrace with the Movement 5 position, but the definitive conquest of the center-right. E’ This is the horizon that Matteo Salvini's moves seem to indicate, after transforming the League (Nord) in the first party of the first coalition that emerged from the elections of 4 March. The meeting with i 5 position – the first party – it is a necessity due to the lack of a numerical majority in Parliament. But it is also something more. Both Salvini and Luigi Di Maio intend to manage the birth of what they consider the third republic, no longer only disconnected from twentieth-century ideologies but also disconnected from ties with traditional political families. And to do it both leaders, Salvini and Di Maio, they banded together to weaken their opponents: on one side Silvio Berlusconi, on the other, the Democratic Party. And to rewrite the rules of the game: an electoral law with a majority bonus that can be certified in the next elections, when they will be there, a new bipolarism. Their. A strategy that may not even pass through a political government between the League and the M5S, which would kill off all the novelty in one fell swoop.
Who and how will go to Palazzo Chigi, but, we will only see it in the next few weeks. What is certain is that Salvini has had in mind for a long time a centre-right that some would rename "Lega Italia". The name is not important, as much as strategy. From the end of 2013, the secretary of the Northern League has worked on the construction of his national proposal, no longer limited to Northern Italy. It has adopted unifying slogans: against the sovereignty ceded to the European Union, against new migrations, against Islam. He caused scandal with his speeches based on the desecration of politically correct. And he inaugurated what he always does well: a permanent electoral campaign, which came down to the South, passing through the regions of Central Italy which rewarded him with often double-digit electoral results. Salvini represents the new right. Not just the radical one that has been talked about in recent months. His extreme message reached a moderate electorate left without references, and therefore ready to rely without intellectual hesitations. Salvini therefore also represents a new centre-right, which no longer has its totem in Berlusconi.