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November 09, 2019 What a few hours after the launch of Italia Viva was just a tease through social media, now becomes a "suggestion" for the center right. It is Mara Carfagna who says that the hypothesis "Forza Italia Viva", in the event that Matteo Renzi slipped off the government majority, could become a viable road. And to make this possibility even more concrete is the overall reasoning that the exponent of Forza Italia makes about the present and the future of the center-right. A complicated moment for the blue party increasingly dominated and in pursuit of sovereign formations. A position of subordination that seems to be close to Carfagna: "What angers me is the psychological subjection to sovereignty, which is harmful for our party, Forza Italia, for its reputation and for our international position", he explains adding that it is necessary to rebalance a situation that sees the center-right sacrificed to the right-right. We have seen, he explains, with the Segre case: his party abstained from the Senate vote for the establishment of the Commission on racism and anti-Semitism requested by Senator Liliana Segre. "There was enough to vote for," Carfagna said. A mistake was made for the psychological subjection to the sovereign allies ".A regret equal to that deriving from the choices of Forza Italia in Umbria, with "the cancellation of the law on homophobia" as the first act of the new center-right government. And again: the demonstration in Piazza San Giovanni on 19 October, where the only flags with Alberto da Giussano flying were. "A demonstration opened by a lady who said she would put Greta Thunberg in the car does not represent me. In Piazza San Giovanni there was only the symbol of the League, but no one in my party asked why or did she say or did we put all symbols or no symbol ". The road indicated by Carfagna is, therefore, that of a moderate and liberal party that does not pursue sovereignty, but constitutes its alternative. That is what Matteo Renzi says about his new political creature.
The streets of the senator from Rignano and the deputy of Salerno could cross paths, as she herself admits. On one condition: that Renzi slips away from the "left" majority that supports the Conte government. "If Renzi declared that he no longer wanted to support this left-wing government, but to have other ambitions, Forza Italia Viva could be a suggestion," says Carfagna.
An opening that Renzi catches on the fly, declaring to leave the door open to Carfagna as to any other exponent of Forza Italia who wants to change politics. Two arguments that only appear to be compatible. From the words of Carfagna - which only a month ago had sent back to the sender the offer to enter with a strong role in Italy Viva - a scenario seems to emerge that sees Italia Viva and Forza Italia as allies in a moderate center-right.
Behind Renzi's words, on the other hand, the will to launch a 'Opa' against Forza Italia parliamentarians and voters seems to emerge. "Doors open to anyone who wants to come not as a guest but as a manager. It applies to Mara Carfagna and to the other leaders of his party, but we do not pull the jacket", are the words of the former scrapper. To confirm this, a Tweet of clarification also arrives in which the vice president of the Chamber emphasizes that his "political field is and will remain the center-right. Between my path and that of Matteo Renzi there can be no overlapping. He is in the other half the field and supports a left-wing government ".
And while Matteo Salvini hopes that "whoever made the minister thanks to the center-right does not go to the left for the love of seats", the waltz of declarations between the two triggers the alarm inside Silvio Berlusconi's party and not only. Very hard, for example, Anna Maria Bernini, leader of the Forst senators: "Renzi tries to launch an unlikely Opa on Forza Italia. Who can trust a political merchant who has transformed transformism into an existential figure?"
Lega and Fratelli d'Italia, on the contrary, respond by opening the candidacy of Carfagna for the presidency of the Campania Region. "Mara Carfagna is a leading figure in Forza Italia and would be a candidate to take into consideration," says FdI leader Giorgia Meloni. "Carfagna is a very capable woman who has shown herself to be good and prepared," says Lucia Borgonzoni, a League candidate in Emilia Romagna, for whom Carfagna would be an excellent candidate for the center-right in Campania.