it starts from the Viminale (but there is a plan B) – Corriere.it

Matteo, take care of it. The League from Matteo Salvini the desired signal of unity and compactness. He had requested it himself, waving the page of a newspaper with an unfriendly title and commenting grimly: In a dramatic moment between war, Korean missiles, gas, emergency bills and inflation, a page opening against me. There is a bad climate. Just a hot head…. Beyond the theme of personal safety, what his parents have received clear and strong the concept: let us not lend ourselves to the narration on divisions. And so, the MEP Alessandro Panza tells him that he was too Zen on the internal protests and had too much patience, the Lombard secretary Fabrizio Cecchetti expresses the bitterness for the internal controversies, Salvini cuts short: Not the time for quarrels. We will take the measures once the government is complete.

And so, the Northern League federal council provides the allies the list of functions to which the party aims, the ministries that should characterize the activity of the governing League. Not that of the ministers, because, as always, no names were made. But it is the Northern League colonels who reiterate the need for the secretary to the Interior Ministry: We believe Matteo Salvini is the most suitable figure to fill that position, says the group leader in the Chamber Riccardo Molinari. And the same does Giancarlo Giorgetti: It seems to me a natural candidate. Salvini listens to the many who enumerate the reasons why he would be the best possible candidate for the Interior, thanks, but he does not let slip more: Doing what the country needs. Only later, to those who ask him, he replies something like: If they don’t want me to go to the Viminale, that’s fine. But they have to tell me to my face. Many in the party are convinced that the secretary has a plan B anyway: he will not hang himself in the Interior Ministry but a note arrives late in the evening: No renunciation. There are those who, like Luciano Durigon, raise the question of Salvini’s role as vice premier. It is also useful to reiterate the Northern League positions with the utmost force: for example, the whole forward reiterated yesterday on flat tax and Quota 41.

Then, in fact, we talk about the ministries. Agriculture, extensively hinged in the country from the Alps to Lampedusa. The name that circulates is that of Gianmarco Centinaio, former minister in Count II and today still undersecretary of the same subject and former minister. And then the Infrastructures, one of the ministries of doing, which could be destined for Edoardo Rixi, who was already deputy minister. And then, regional affairs, the department that should hold regional autonomies in baptism. Here the person in charge should possibly be from Veneto and possibly a woman, says one of those present, cutting out the assignment from Erika Stefani, who is also already present in Conte I with the same assignment. Stefani is also Minister for Disabilities today: and the dicastery is another of those considered strategic by the League, which had also nominated the president of the Italian Blind Union Mario Barbuto to the Chamber. Luca Zaia suggests to re-propose all the outgoing ones as a whole, to underline the good work done.

The Venetian governor also raises the question of the Ministry of Health which in the coming years will be increasingly strategic, but here Giancarlo Giorgetti who warns: It will also be a probable source of problems. There are also those who put it this way: The ministries we have indicated are the right ones. Also because we are not the party that has to take on the worst problems. For this reason, in the end it seems that there will be no particular claims even on the delegations to energy, even if the group leader in the Senate Massimiliano Romeo has raised the issue. MEPs Zanni and Dreosto urge not to forget the mandate for European Affairs, Giorgetti does the same with Sport. Undersecretary of Justice Jacopo Morrone bitterly says: We do not deal with Justice, but Justice which then deals with us. Here the candidate would be Giulia Bongiorno, but the leaguers are convinced that Giorgia Meloni’s choice is for the former prosecutor Carlo Nordio.