Rome obsession with Meloni. The Prime Minister's party already working to regain leadership of the Capital

Rome , the capital, the city where everything started, seems to have become a small obsession for Giorgia Meloni , who took her first steps in politics here, lives here, and still has her main affections here. The bond with the capital for the two Meloni sisters is strong, very strong, and has also been reaffirmed by the rain of money that the government has decided to allocate for the capital, despite it being led by a mayor of the Democratic Party , a tangible sign that the interest of the nation is a priority above all else, and is not just a slogan for the prime minister. In recent days, the capital has returned to animate the life of the prime minister's party with the traditional " Piazza Italia " festival, which takes place from 3 to 5 July, at the Eur lake, in Viale America, and the chosen slogan leaves no doubt: "You're great. You'll be back, Rome".

Giorgia Meloni's party is aiming for the 2027 elections , an opportunity to return to govern a city lost in 2013, when Alemanno was swept away by Ignazio Marino's red wave, and failed to reconquer with the current prime minister in 2016 and again in 2021, with the people's lawyer Enrico Michetti, beaten in the runoff by Roberto Gualtieri . "We had fun playing with the claim - explains Marco Perissa, deputy and president of FdI Rome - because already last year we had started to deal with the theme of the transformation of the city, and its change strictly connected to the commitment of the Government. Rome is great, regardless of who governs it".

Opening the event are two national big names like Arianna Meloni , who some would even see very well as a candidate for the capital for 2027 (difficult but not impossible) and Giovanni Donzelli , who bluntly, in front of the elite of the party in the capital, state almost like a mantra that Rome must return to greatness and to do so, this is only understood, the center right must lead it. It is certainly not news that Rome has always been the beating heart of the party. And it is no coincidence that the great electoral test before the triumph of 6 years later, Giorgia Meloni operated by running, even against the opinion of many allies and even some leaders of her own party.

But now with her at Palazzo Chigi, everything seems ready to reconquer the capital after too many years in the hands of the left, and for Arianna Meloni the plan must be the same that brought Fdi to the government of the country. The recipe for having arrived at the leadership of the country? Consistency . Fratelli d’Italia is the party that is among the people. It is important to continue with this plan, we must not make the mistake of closing ourselves in the palace.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Kermesse was attended by the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate , Galeazzo Bignami and Lucio Malan, and the co-president of Ecr, Nicola Procaccini, born and resident in Terracina, but a Roman (and Lazio) by adoption, and obviously the president of Lazio, Francesco Rocca, and the president of the Lazio Regional Council, Antonello Aurigemma. And also the group leaders in the Lazio Region and in the Campidoglio, Daniele Sabatini and Giovanni Quarzo, the general secretary of Ecr Antonio Giordano, the vice-responsible for organization, Massimo Milani, the coordinators of Lazio and the Province of Rome, Paolo Trancassini and Marco Silvestroni.

The Roman demonstration looks a lot like a sort of pre-election rally even though the elections are so far away, but Rome is too important and this time it is forbidden to make mistakes like in 2022 when, precisely because of the rush, the wrong candidate was chosen. “ Rome is the most beautiful city in the world, I say this not as a Roman. A city that deserves better than the current administration, which makes it difficult to live in and visit, ” says Lucio Malan from Luserna San Giovanni, province of Turin. “We have the duty to present proposals for Rome. Lazio is governed by the center-right, Rome must also have this opportunity.”

This is to say that Rome is in Meloni's sights and must return to the sights of the party that is united with the capital almost in symbiosis. Clearly no one is talking about candidacies, even if there are a lot of names going around ( Fabio Rampelli, historical leader of the Colle Oppio section, where the political adventure of the two Meloni sisters began above all), like the last-minute name of the current sports minister Andrea Abodi (at the party the name of another minister Francesco Lollobrigida was also circulating, but they seem like simple suggestions, at least for now).

Of course, the name to be proposed must be one of the strong ones to hope for a reversal against the current mayor Gualtieri, who just in these days has expressed his intention to run again. There is time to think about the names, they reason at the top levels of Via della Scrofa, also because they must also fill the boxes of the other important administrations voting in the same period, such as Turin, Bologna, and Milan , together with the coalition allies.

And then in 2027 there will also be the political elections. But the Roman kermesse that will see five ministers parade in addition to the president of the anti-mafia commission Chiara Colosimo (another possible name, which had already been mentioned for the last regional elections , the suggestion of all-female power seems to be very fashionable at the moment), is certainly a starting point, towards 2027, a capital year in every sense, for a party that set out from the outskirts of the eternal city to conquer the country.