Bossi al Foglio: “Salvini must talk to me. Those he kicked out are returning”

“Salvini has to talk to me”. Umberto Bossi stings the leader of the League. The old boss of the Carroccio is at the buvette della Camera in the company of his son Renzo. He greets the reporters. And with a faint voice he retraces last Saturday’s initiative, that of the Northern Committee meeting at the castle of Giovenzano, in the province of Pavia: “It is a current of rebirth: Salvini had sent them all away. Now people are returning”. Bossi’s scratch enters chaos and is reshaping the internal power of the League.

If on the one hand Salvini’s disappointed met on Saturday, on the other Sunday was the day of the territorial congresses in Lombardy. Assemblies that have not fully rewarded the leadership of the secretary if not the deputy prime minister. In fact, the war of tiles produced surprising results: it won the congresses of Varese and Pavia but lost those of Brescia, Lodi and Cremona. Bells of widespread discontent in the Northern League homeland. And that give Bossi a breather in these hours, ready to meet the secretary for an agreement or perhaps to challenge him on a much more complex terrain: that of the regional ones in Lombardy. Where Letizia Moratti has already said she expects the old Senatùr with open arms.

• Simone Canettieri

• Viterbese, 1982. On paper since September 2020 as editor. Eight years for the Messenger (in the news and for the politician). Even earlier in Emilia Romagna as a correspondent (between the birth of the M5s and the earthquake), in Florence as editor of the Nuovo Corriere (dealing with crime and judicial news every morning). He started in Viterbo at 19 with skating and minor football, then at 26 he got his first job. He has written for Oggi, Linkiesta, travel and gastronomy inserts. He collaborated with RadioRai, but also with local television and radio stations that never paid. Agnes 2020 Award for printed paper in Italy.