that’s why he smiled for the mini split in Lombardia-Corriere.it

Matteo? He smiled. And he continued to do what he was doing.

A faithful of the Northern League secretary thus recounts the leader’s reaction to the news that three regional councilors of Lombardy had left the party group precisely in the Region that was the cradle of the League.

Within a few hours, Roberto Mura, Antonello Formenti and Federico Lena were expelled by the Disciplinary and Guarantee Committee.

Curious that in a party the neighbors of the secretary rejoice at what happened. Why does losing three councilors two months before the elections (and last week the first, Gianmarco Senna), put the loyalists in a good mood? Of course: Mura, Formenti and Lena had now seemed to have one foot outside the party for several months. Now, they have both of them out.

But what is priceless, according to the Salvinians, thehaving put the Northern Committee in serious difficulty. The current within the party which, in the name and with the participation of Umberto Bossiwanted to carve out a role of opposition to Salvini’s leadership under the sign of the North.

But yesterday’s maneuver seems to have been clumsy. The big question among Northern League supporters is the following: why did the three councilors use the name and symbol of the Northern Committee only to be disavowed within a few hours by the promoter of the current Paolo Grimoldi, also in the name of Umberto Bossi? Something certainly didn’t work and the forward flight seems not to have been shared by all Northerners. Moreover, in the League they swear that at the beginning the document also bore the signature of another councilor, Massimiliano Bastoni, who instead did not do it on purpose.

The fact is that the no of Grimoldi the initiative of the three councilors is not enough for many Salvinians. For example for Igor Lezzi, deputy and commissioner of the old Northern League: It’s not enough to say it’s not good. The three who came out used the North Committee as their name and attached the symbol. And therefore, now Grimoldi must clarify. To say if he is working with these three people to divide the League. Or, if not, I expect the complaints because they fraudulently used the symbol of the committee.

The Salvinians, on the other hand, breathe a sigh of relief for another reason. The announcement of the new group and the symbol arrived yesterday in the Region via pec a few hours after the calling of the regional elections for 12 and 13 February. Forming a board group just beforehand will allow the three directors not to have to collect signatures in support of any list they wish to present.

But yesterday’s showdown, with the disavowal coming from Umberto Bossi via Grimoldi, even the president Attilio Fontana got out of the way. Because if he had been offered support for the re-nomination by a list with the seal of Umberto Bossi, it would have been much more difficult for him to say no. It is not for nothing that yesterday the former Minister of Justice Roberto Castelli, founder of the internal group Autonomy and freedom who also gave some help to Gianluigi Paragone’s Italexit, regretting the escapes and expulsions underlined: We are convincedly aligned alongside Governor Fontana.