La Roberto Maroni's decision not to reapply at the helm of the Lombardy Region was motivated by personal reasons which are, by definition, unquestionable. After that, while denying the existence of political motivations, he partially contradicted himself when he declared himself willing to take on other responsibilities anyway, if this proves necessary "in the best interests of the country". This last statement has rightly raised a number of perfectly legitimate but, I think, still somewhat superficial political interpretations.
Maroni's affirmation, in fact, entirely meritorious and understandable in the mouth of someone who had concluded an important political experience, instead appears surprising and contradictory (as well as very unrealistic) in the mouth of those who leave halfway through the work. And on top of that he does it after asking, with a costly and useless referendum, greater spaces of autonomy and greater powers to achieve it.
So what was the referendum, a scene? In the light of what is happening, one would say yes and the first not to believe it would have been the main protagonist.
If we talk about the "best interest of the country", in fact, which at this precise moment consists, as everyone can understand, in consolidating the foundations of its economic recovery and in strengthening its system of administrative and political decentralization, what other place can be more important than Lombardy, Milan and its large metropolitan area, the North of the country, in short? Isn't this the precise function of this area, what politics must support and encourage in every way? Wasn't this the political implication, if there was one, of the referendum challenge?
Judging by the behavior of Maroni or, better, by his slip of the tongue with regard to positions of responsibility, one would say no. Yet you think you can do something else, as if one could be prime minister, for example, or exercise any other political function at the national level without having this issue clearly in mind.
Evidently it is not possible and if this closes the Maroni question on the one hand, it opens up the Gori question on the other. That is to say the question of the centre-left's ability to occupy these spaces to affirm its own, original and more advanced government proposal.
Do not only do better than the League, as Gori's well-chosen electoral slogan says, but also do more and do something different.
