Veneto in Zoppas, Marcegaglia in Emilia-Romagna? Giorgia Meloni raises the stakes

What will happen shortly after the European elections when there will be regional elections, first in Emilia-Romagna and then in Veneto?

ROME – It’s not long now, in 24 days we will know the results of the European elections. And from the polls, in addition to knowing the names of the new MEPs, we will also know how many votes the individual parties have received, the political ‘weight’ they will be able to play in the coming years. All polls give Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy in first place, followed at a distance by secretary Elly Schlein’s Democratic Party. In the centre-right, the most heated ‘clash’ is between Salvini’s League and Antonio Tajani’s Forza Italia. The League today is the second party in the coalition but Forza Italia, which many believed to be doomed after the death of President Berlusconi, thanks to the tenacious action of Tajani has managed to occupy the space of ‘responsible politics’ and calm’, a strategy that sees them in clear recovery. Many pollsters already take it as a given, placing Forza Italia at around 10-12 percent compared to the League at around eight percent.

Leaving aside the broad and less broad Center-Left, divided and with the different tribes in constant struggle, which for this reason will not touch the ball, it is interesting to understand what will happen shortly afterwards when there will be regional elections, first in Emilia -Romagna and then in Veneto. It is no secret that Giorgia Meloni, even with her allies, has made it clear that the first Italian party at the level of Governors is very undersized. Piedmont which will most likely remain in Forza Italia, the League in Lombardy and the  Veneto, now with the Northern League member Zaia expiring who will necessarily have to go to Fratelli d’Italia. In Veneto, at the natural deadline, there will be a vote in 2025 but the regional electoral campaign has already started with the different positions. Listening to some transversal centre-right sources, at the moment the ‘right’ candidate for the Brothers of Italy has the characteristics of Matteo Zoppas, the new president of the ICE appointed by the minister Adolfo Urso born in Padua. But it is in Emilia-Romagna, a land that has always been governed by the left and the centre-left, that Giorgia Meloni has set her sights. Because bringing home that region alone is worth a 10. Not only a political victory but also a historical one. The current President of the Region and of the Democratic Party, Stefano Bonaccini, has decided to run for the European Parliament. So in Emilia-Romagna at the end of November we will vote to elect the new regional government. There is already war in the Dem house, at the moment internal sources always repeat only two names: Vincenzo Colla, regional councilor for economic development and green economy, with a history of battle with the metalworkers of Fiom CGIL; Michele De Pascale, young and enthusiastic Dem mayor of Ravenna. Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers cannot be wrong, the name must have weight, national value and outside the provincial party schemes. It is already being discussed, at the moment the name whispered by a reliable source is surprising: Emma Marcegaglia, today head of the family holding with three factories in Romagna, former national president of Confindustria. And in any case, at the moment this is the area of search for the big name that this time could really change the color of Emilia-Romagna.