What will happen if no one wins in the next elections on March 4? "Without winners, the most correct solution would be to continue with this government and to allow another electoral campaign, not very short, of at least three months" to then go back to voting in October. This is what was claimed yesterday, during the presentation of Bruno Vespa's latest book, by the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, who instead ruled out the hypothesis of a grand coalition government with the Democratic Party, "because in Italy the left is still too left”.
Berlusconi's move – who made a sensational gaffe on Mussolini (“He wasn't a dictator”), trying to correct himself in extremis (“It was a joke”) – immediately displaced the League with which tension was already mounting for the vote against expressed in the Senate by FI on the Molteni law which cancels reduced sentences for very serious crimes, such as rape and murder, and in the face of which Matteo Salvini rose up announcing that "at this point, we say stop at all tables and the meetings with Berlusconi”.
But it was the hypothesis of supporting the Gentiloni government, albeit briefly, after the vote in March that sent the shaky center-right alliance into a tailspin. "We never with Gentiloni: we will never betray the voters" thundered the deputy secretary of the League, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
As usual, Berlusconi, who had previously dismissed Salvini's frequent surges as "whims", then attempted to take cover by arguing that temporary support for Gentiloni in the event of no winners in the next elections "is only a hypothesis , not a wish, because the Constitution provides for it".
But the tension is high under the sky of the center-right even if the electoral convenience will take care of putting the pieces back together. However, the secretary of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, is concerned about the lacerations, who sends Berlusconi and Salvini to say: “Do we want to be together to give Italy a credible guide or not? Let's meet to clarify by Christmas ”.
Perhaps the approaching holidays will calm things down a bit, but the post-electoral cohabitation between Forza Italia and the League promises to be very difficult if not impossible right now. And many are beginning to wonder what kind of alliance would be the one that dissolves one minute after the vote.
