Meloni beats Salvini: on Trento and Friuli there is a total rift in the government on the third mandate
Government challenges autonomous law
Even if the Padanians downplay it, the split in the cabinet is the prelude to an all-out war with FdI which aims to take over Fedriga's Friuli
Sooner or later it was bound to happen: behind the most visible but actually harmless divisions of the majority there is one that seems local, therefore almost secondary, and is instead much more serious than the others: the one on the third mandate. On that front the prime minister is not willing to give an inch. She had demonstrated it with the challenge of the Campania law on the third mandate , which automatically shot down any hope of the Venetian viceroy Zaia to run for the fourth time. She confirmed it yesterday by challenging the law of the autonomous province of Trento that would have opened the door to the third mandate of president Maurizio Fugatti. The rift is full and for once undeniable.
The League ministers voted against. The party that expresses the deputy prime minister and the minister of Economy is openly opposed to a choice by the prime minister. Salvini downplays: "There is no problem. These are local issues". Fugatti rages but agrees: " It is an act against the autonomy of Trentino. The League ministers have tried to defend the prerogatives of our territory but I do not deal with national issues". The ruling of the Court that agreed with the government and struck down De Luca 's Campania law automatically extends to Veneto but not to Trentino, a province with a special statute. On the contrary, both Fugatti and the League parliamentarians Cattoi and Testor maintain that the ruling of the Constitutional Court on Campania "between the lines" states that the special autonomies " have exclusive legislative power on this matter ". Precisely because it concerns regions and provinces with special statutes, the Court's decision, in this case, will automatically also be reflected in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, whose Northern League governor, Fedriga, is also aiming for a third term. The very connection between the Province of Trento and the Friuli Region actually explains the earthquake that suddenly overwhelmed the region led by Fedriga.
On Sunday, the councilors of Lega, Lista Fedriga and FI resigned. They are not resignations but the willingness to proceed on that path if the governor decides so and if the dispute with FdI is not resolved. The casus belli is an interview in which the tricolor minister for Relations with Parliament Ciriani expressed very harsh judgments on the management of the hospital in Pordenone, still not operational despite having been inaugurated in December. In reality, the indignation over Ciriani's attack is above all the excuse that allows Fedriga to prepare the ground for a crisis and new elections soon. Fedriga can in fact run for the third time if the government falls before reaching the halfway point of the legislature. Everything therefore suggests that the governor wants to wait for the outcome of the standoff over the Province of Trento and then, if necessary, resign and return to the vote before having passed the halfway point of the legislature. But the Friuli affair is also marked by local power struggles: this explains the resignation of the blue councilors, even though FI has always been the most hostile party, even more than FdI, in its third term.
Not without good reason, the opposition thunders against the government and shouts that when a deputy prime minister votes against his government, it would be a duty to open a crisis. In reality, there will be no crisis. The same cabinet has beaten the League with one hand, and with the other has approved the bill on Lep , a fundamental step forward to give the go-ahead to Calderoli's differentiated autonomy, or what remains of it after the surgical cuts of the Consulta. On the subject, however, Sergio Mattarella also made his voice heard yesterday, and very loudly. Yesterday, in Veneto, the president urged to fill "the intolerable gaps between the different health systems" and stated that autonomy is "effective and advantageous for the community when it involves the exercise of functions and competences according to a reasonable application of the principles of subsidiarity, adequacy and differentiation ". A clear request to proceed with maximum caution on autonomy.
But even if a crisis in Trentino and Friuli is not among the real possibilities, the wound will remain open. Because Veneto is in the middle: even without being able to run directly, Zaia is determined to confirm the Lega leadership of the white stronghold. Giorgia is equally determined to wrest the Region from the Lega. Of all the problems of the majority, this one risks being the thorniest.
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