A little less than a week after the vote and 24 hours after the pochade that forced the new mayor of Brescia Laura Castelletti to postpone the official appointment for a day due to the lack of paper from the Electoral Office printer, the prose necessary to set up the new administration forcefully takes the place of the poetry of a clear victory of the coalition gathered around the PD. Hand in hand, the defeated oppositions also seem to be experiencing a paralysis which is the prelude to a showdown between the allied alignments.
Castelletti: for 10 years in the Giunta without a party
Laura Castelletti (let's not forget it) he has been sitting on the council for 10 years without direct references to a party if not a vague socialist youth militancy, trained at the school of Ettore Fermi, the architect who for over 30 years has directed and guided the urban development of the city with interposed professional offices. This time Ours will have to do everything by herself starting a unravel political issues which peep out from hour to hour in its solid and vast majority. First in a PD which claims the majority of members for itself of Giunta and a central role for its newly elected members who combine the number of preferences with the extraneousness of membership. On the other side the very sensitive rib of the Catholic and Christian Democrat world inherited from Mino Martinazzoli and made vigorous by the decade of outgoing mayor Emilio Del Bono he intends to react strongly to the shifting of the Party line launched to the left also in the city by the Schlein secretariat and by the combative returns of article1. In the galaxy of allied lists the request is no less. We expected the news in the Council of a lady from Brescia who had long since moved to Brussels to work in the secretariat of Emmanuel Macron and his Renew Europa deployment. The lady, indicated by Calenda, hastened to declare that she wanted to resign from the City Council and to return immediately to Belgium where children, family and work awaited her. The subrogation of the second elected would not be a problem at all if it weren't for the long and cumbersome shadow of Mariastella Gelmini ready and determined to take revenge and to claim. There is in the background, like a storm, an activism of Emile Del Bono in alliance with that of Bergamo and other Lombard cities aimed at reinforcing an alliance to prevent Schlein from extending its hands on its traditional roots in the white provinces of Lombardy. We will see.
The silence of the defeated
Among defeated the silence is getting loud. Even in the confidences the analyzes of the dry defeat are scarce and approximate. Not even the reasons for a triumphalism distributed in full hands until the eve find their own why? Was it perhaps thought of being able to go upriver 15 years after the conquest of the Lodge without having plowed and then re-sown the soil of the civil, economic and cultural society of the Cities? The reasons and strengths of that isolated city victory have never been studied in depth, preferring to keep alive the glories of that season to guarantee the increasingly scarce political spaces of the City to a few. At that time (si licet) the driving force of a combative Berlusconi, the reign of Formigoni in the Region and the organisational, economic and loyalty-inducing power of the Compagnia delle Opere were added to the CL candidate: so strong and intriguing as to occupy with one of his high manager even the general management of the powerful Brescian Industrial Association. On these pillars was added, on the eve of the elections, the public endorsement of Joseph Camadini, the other side of the economic-political-religious Janus who had the undisputed opposite profile in Giovanni Bazoli: profiles that are not conflicting but otherwise converge in unum! Well all these conditions have not existed for years. Reviving the triumphs of yesteryear citizens with a photograph of outdated characters immortalized around Rolfi sounded like the antechamber of the failure registered in a few days. In these ten years (except FI which has forfeited Meloni's electoral result) it center-right alignment not only has it not been able to renew itself but it has not been able to open up to the new engines of the city society by now identified in the services and tertiary sector. The two universities. The two large city hospitals. Professional Orders. Economic engines such as the multi-powered A2A or BresciaMobilità. These are the subjects that determine and govern the growth and development of the capital after the definitive disappearance of secular banks such as San Paolo and Credito Agrario. What have the men of the city's center-right been able to do if not claim some seats on the Boards of Directors where by Statute it was a mandatory fact? There electoral test of this myopia or opinionated inattention to the new social dynamics? The large municipalities of the Province in the same electoral round as in Brescia moved arms and baggage to the centre-right.
Laura Castelletti will have how to commit herself in the coming years. Surely because the facts will determine a strong turnover of his interlocutors and his opponents.
