As for the cities of the North, everything suggests that the PDL lists would suffer from the lack of an alliance with the League. In recent days Calderoli has made it clear that the pact with Berlusconi "is dead and buried". These are the reasons why he takes the hypothesis of not presenting lists in the name of the People of Freedom in the next electoral round, albeit an administrative one.
After all, it has been a while since the Knight hasn't hidden that he likes that name (People of Freedom) and that acronym (PDL) less and less. Thus, one could first hide behind local lists, in order not to lose a minimum of contact with one's electorate. And after the elections we could look for a new name, a new acronym, and perhaps a more compact management team. Certainly it is not a show of force that of a relative majority party that presents itself to the administrations in indirect disguise. It's a bit as if Milan, waiting to have a better pool of players, decided to field the Primavera team. The risk is that fans and voters become disaffected.
These things, but also other things, should be discussed this evening in a super-summit of the party convened at Villa Germetto. Of course, the temptation not to collect a result that is expected to be negative for one's party is far from unfounded. However, the question remains whether a decision in this direction does not end up weakening the secretary Angelino Alfano above all, who needs strong credibility and an equally convinced support from his party, to lead the negotiations on institutional and electoral reforms, which has just begun with the Pd and the third pole.
The League could also encounter some problems for the next administrations. And certainly the decision to put the Maronian Flavio Tosi, the outgoing Northern League mayor of Verona, out of the leadership of the so-called Po Valley parliament, is certainly puzzling. As if to say, sometimes politicians have to beware above all of friendly fire.
