“We tried. The swamp won again. A missed opportunity for Italians, but it was right to try.” The mountain of residual trust of Giorgia Meloni in Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini collapses on a vote. The Prime Minister feels it immediately after the Government was defeated in the Chamber, beside herself with anger. Then she publicly sounds a clear and strong warning to the allies in the post where she comments on the rejection of the preferences proposed in the electoral law by her party, Fdi, together with the centrists of Noi Moderati and Udc.
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The accusation: “Several votes missing in the majority”
The result of the votes on the amendment, Meloni writes, “says that the left and the opposition voted solidly against, but also in the majority several votes were missing, and this requires reflection.” Not that the Prime Minister had not considered the possibility that the preferences would be stopped also by the League and the Forza Italia members, never convinced of the entire reform, despite the reassurances that also came yesterday: this is proven by the Government’s decision not to put the trust vote, which in front of the Chamber’s no would have forced it to resign, and also by the absences of Meloni and many ministers, whose yes could have been decisive.
The vain request to be followed
However, the defeat stings, also because it was the Prime Minister herself, a few hours before the defeat, who claimed the amendment, attacked the secret vote and evoked “a truth operation to understand if those parties that have long called for the possibility for citizens to choose their own parliamentarians do so out of conviction.” A challenge to the broad field, but also to the leaders of her coalition: the explicit request to be followed.
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Salvini’s silence, Tajani’s minimization
It was not so. The professions of loyalty from the League (Salvini remained silent; from us “no snipers,” stated the group leader Riccardo Molinari) convince no one inside Fdi. Tajani’s statements aimed at minimizing the event (“Just a hiccup, it was not a fundamental issue”) even irritate. Tensions and suspicions towards the “draw party,” even within the center-right, abound. The hunt for the 32 snipers is open.
The anger and the choice to move forward with the law
The Prime Minister does not hold back her anger and agrees on the line with the party colonels, from Undersecretary Giovanbattista Fazzolari to the group leader in Montecitorio Galeazzo Bignami, first signatory of the sunk amendment. He makes it public at the end of the Conference of group leaders: “We move forward with the votes.” For now, Fdi states it wants to bring home the reform, which could be approved already today in the Chamber, since the opposition has withdrawn the amendments.
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