Who would have ever thought that secure Calabria, a stronghold of Forza Italia, would become a stress test worrying the center-right? The Vannacci effect, one of many. Because on September 27 and 28, the citizens of the single-member constituency 05 of the Chamber – Reggio Calabria are called to vote for the deputy who will replace Francesco Cannizzaro in Parliament, the Forza Italia member elected mayor of the city. In other times a game won at the table, today a first experiment to understand if Futuro Nazionale can really give the majority a hard time.
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The double slap
The unexpected element is called Domenico Giannetta, he has the reassuring face of a doctor and a long political experience within Forza Italia, with which in 2021 he was re-elected to the Regional Council with over 10,000 preferences and for which he was group leader until the end of August, when he was chosen as a candidate for the Chamber by Futuro Nazionale. With a double slap: the farewell to the party he represented and the switch to those who, from the right, are eroding votes from the coalition. Giannetta, in fact, challenges precisely the center-right candidate, Fabio Roscioli, not just anyone: he is the national administrator of the party, a historic lawyer of Fininvest and highly esteemed by the Berlusconi family. Alongside them run Frank Benedetto, an expression of the broad field, and Francesco Toscano, supported by the Democrazia Sovrana Popolare symbol.
Occhiuto’s anger
To measure the seriousness of the rupture were the hot words of the Forza Italia governor Roberto Occhiuto, which certainly were not gentle. First, he decreed Giannetta’s exit from the majority in the Region and then thundered: “My regional government has nothing to do with those who choose Roberto Vannacci.” In the crosshairs are the “mercenaries and traitors” who ride the “populisms.”
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Stefania Craxi’s lashes
The president of the Forza Italia senators, also very close to the Cavaliere’s children, Marina and Pier Silvio, increased the dose in an interview with Repubblica on September 9: Vannacci – the thesis goes – “currently acts as the fifth column of the left in parliament as in the Reggio Calabria by-elections. From this point of view, he is similar to the AfD which in Germany looks to the red-browns who support Sahra Wagenknecht.”
For the general “Reggio Calabria will be our Saxony”
It was precisely the general who evoked the German vote in a very different sense from the pages of Il Fatto, proclaiming that “Reggio Calabria will be our Saxony-Anhalt. We aim to win. Forza Italia has nominated a Roman lawyer who has never seen the Strait, catapulted there by the Berlusconi family. We, on the other hand, have a doctor who has been doing politics there for years and whom everyone knows.”
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