The League is not the CSU. The comparison between the two parties does not hold, unfortunately for Italy

With undeniable tenacity, Il Deputy Prime Minister Salvini launches a hammering implicit appeal to radical right-wing voters: Melons he is betraying you, he is institutionalizing himself, he appoints ex-Dragians, I am your true champion instead. After all, it was Salvini who opened his lists at Casa Pound years ago. That’s why he opened the challenge to the prime minister so far in advance also on the next European ones. Her way of speaking to the radical right does not allow for nuances: if you are comfortable with allying yourself with the socialists after the European elections, then you prefer Schlein to Le Penwhile I’m the real friend and ally of the leader of the French and European right.

Tajani replied that Madame Le Pen is not even mentioned, the desirable agreement is between the European Populars and the Conservatives of which Meloni is president. The reply from Guido Crosetto, one of the founders together with Meloni of Fratelli d’Italia, is more reasoned. Crosetti he confirmed that the post-election goal is an alliance with the Popolari, but if there were no numbers then it will be necessary to seriously evaluate the alternatives, first and foremost with the European liberals. A reasoned answer. Because if Salvini’s attack on Meloni produced one positive thing, it is that the Italian media were forced to explain that in reality the numbers for the European turnaround are very risky. Even if Sanchez loses the upcoming Spanish election, the majority of European governments would remain led by popular or socialists, and the appointment of the president of the Commission passes to the European Council decided by the governments, a venue in which Meloni’s group and that of Salvini would in no way have veto power. Salvini knows it: his purpose is not to change the course of European politics, it is only to accumulate a new weapon to be used against Meloni in view of the policies, accusing it of messing up in Europe. And here he could end the analysis. But there is a passage from Crosetto’s interview which deserves further study. Attempting an irenic approach with Salvini, Crosetto says that basically it would not be unnatural for the League to adopt a similar attitude to Meloni in Europe. Crosetto has always thought of the League as the closest thing in Italy to the CSU, historic Catholic party, leader in Bavaria, nationally federated with the CDU. In light of the facts, a risky comparison, since Salvini distorted the original DNA of the League. Having recorded the worst electoral result since 1950 for the CSU in Bavaria, Söder has tightened his power to govern the Land alliance with the Free Electors: (FW) a liberal-conservative movement very active on human rights, defender of decentralization but equally capable of saying that the school offer entrusted to the Laender ended up breaking the equality of opportunities in Germany, greener in its policies than the CSU and proponent of a serious system of integration of immigrants based on the points system on which Canada has based what is today the major strategy in the Western field for attracting immigrants and not rejecting them, adopting an explicit criterion of preference in the choice of economic immigrants, and leaving aside the right to asylum which is a separate chapter to be guaranteed. The effect of FW is to make Bavaria today the Land that better contains the growth of the racist-sovereign right of AfD than the rest of Germany, where instead in some territories it is now the second party and sails over 20 percent of the votes. Maybe Salvini’s League was something like the Bavarian Free Electors, who belong to the European family of Liberal Democrats. Salvini instead demands that Meloni embrace Le Pen and AfD, something that not only Macron but not even the CDU-CSU will ever be able to do in Germany. Meloni already has the Polish cat of the PIS and the Hungarian one of Orban to peel. If he embraced Salvini’s path he would end up in the corner, and would lead Italy straight to us.