The League’s Kiev. Salvini challenged Seriate: “It’s worse than the 1992 crisis”

The League has found its Kiev. It is located in Seriate, in the province of Bergamo. Thirty thousand inhabitants. It is a community that this October 8 had the tenacity to say what in Saronno, in one night, Thursday, the militants of the Carroccio were unable to pronounce (the questions were agreed). In a public meeting organized by Commissioner Cristian Invernizzi, another local League, a free and right man (and in fact excluded from the lists) 300 members spoke of “failure”. They expect the immediate convocation of the Lombard congress, well before the regional elections, and something new for the League, they want “the primaries” to choose the next candidates in the institutions.

What they think of the state of Salvini’s League is that the League is currently “going through the worst moment in our history, worse even than in 1992. We are in the lowest moment of the League, lowest since the scandal that overwhelmed it and which has led to Bossi’s step backwards ”. In a true analysis, those who had the opportunity to speak asked for “a return to identity”. This time “masters in our house” means that the Lega di Bergamo wants to be the mistress of being the Lega. “Where is the heart of the League?” was the catchphrase. A Bergamasco then didn’t make it and got free: “But do we want to say that Salvini shoots bullshit?”. Salvini, while all this was happening, was in Arcore with Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi to reason about the government. In Seriate no minister, no manager. The great absentee was Fabrizio Cecchetti, secretary of the Lombard League. If he wasn’t there, in Seriate, what is his place? What’s its purpose?

His Lombard management was unanimously rejected. Each Northern League player played the bagpipes. One: “We only collected shit figures.” The list of Salvini’s enterprises was thus drawn up: “The trip to Poland, do we want to talk about it?”. Another militant: “And the management of the election of the President of the Republic? Salvini was supposed to be a king maker and he made a king burger. We had five different positions a day ”. In this regard, we have unpublished news. Does anyone remember that Salvini met Mario Draghi in those painful days? Well, months later we can say how Salvini and Draghi greeted each other. Salvini: “I’ll let you know. For me your candidacy is fine ”. Draghi confided that he never heard from him again. And now Seriate again. Topics named: “Where is the structure of the League?”. The League, with a few exceptions, is governed by commissioners appointed by Salvini. And here’s the joke: “The most capable is incapable”.

In Saronno, on leaving, the leaders of the League declared: “It was a great moment of listening.” In Bergamo, their ears weren’t listening. A Northern League supporter says: “Witnessing what happened in Bergamo is now a duty”. Now every northern city has an informer, one who sends pictures, videos. He will continue.

• Carmelo Caruso

• Carmelo Caruso, journalist in Palermo, Milan, Rome. He started in La Repubblica, he wrote eight years for Panorama dealing with politics, news, culture. In 2018 at Il Giornale. Today in the editorial office of Il Foglio.