The first projections leave no room for doubts: Lombardy, as emerged yesterday during the counting of the Senate ballots, will remain in the hands of the centre-right coalition, led by Northern League leader Roberto Maroni. It will not be the overwhelming majority in Formigoni's time, but the first projections give the PDL and Lega candidate the lead with 43%, against the 35% of challenger Umberto Ambrosoli of the centre-left. At the moment, grillina Silvia Carcano would be in third place with 13%, more than double what appears to have been achieved by the former mayor of Milan Gabriele Albertini.
Roberto Maroni therefore wins, and with him that League wounded by the scandals and disappointing results of Piedmont and Veneto. Vince Maroni, despite the move, at this point decisive but highly contested by the base, to confirm the alliance with Berlusconi at least in the Lombard stronghold.
It is in fact the "thaw of the pdl votes thanks to Silvio" on which Maroni had bet all his cards. However, how does the League now put it in the other regions, especially in Veneto, where from the point of view of politics, the alliance with Berlusconi has been paid dearly? "If this alliance - say many within the party - will allow us to govern in Lombardy with Maroni it will be worth it, in the light of this strategic result".
Strategic yes, but which risks giving a lot of work and many headaches to both Tosi and the governor Luca Zaia. Giancarlo Galan, the former governor who had to give up running again for the political reasons of the presidency of the League in 2010, is forging ahead. First, he observes that "there has been a collapse without precedent in history and it is that of the Northern League". Then, without wasting time, he raises the issue of the reshuffle: "I expect that tomorrow my friends from the Veneto PDL will go to Zaia and tell him that there is no way that, in a relationship that sees us two to one with respect to the League, the president of the junta and the councilor for health belong to those who have one”. And that is, always the Carroccio.
