• Council of the League, Salvini: "I listen to everyone and decide"

  • Lega, Salvini: I listen to everyone and decide

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04 November 2021The showdown in the League started with a sort of armed truce awaiting the December assembly.

The first round is therefore won by Matteo Salvini by putting the 'rebels' in line.

First of all his deputy, Giancarlo Giorgetti.

"I listen to everyone and decide, as I always do", announces the secretary arriving in the Chamber for the federal council of the party, convened 24 hours before.

In a very armored Salvadori room and absolutely off limits to almost anyone, the "captain" speaks for 50 minutes.

And underlines the need to be compact and stay on the facts.



"I'm interested in talking about flat taxes or bonuses for separated parents. I'm passionate about concrete issues. That's all", he insists. Convinced that "the vision of the League is winning". Then, as the party says, everyone - including Giorgetti - express "total confidence in the leader's activity, vision and strategy".    



In addition to the two duelists, the third deputy secretary Lorenzo Fontana, the group leaders of the Chamber and Senate and the regional commissioners are at the meeting.



The governors are online, from Zaia to Fedriga. For the leader, however, the objective seems to have been achieved: to reiterate to everyone that the party line of via Bellerio is given by him, not by others. From taxes to work, which they want to defend in the maneuver, up to the new sovereign group to be built in Europe.



The result is therefore the armed truce that should last a month or so, until the programmatic assembly scheduled for 11 and 12 December (with parliamentarians, governors, mayors, government officials and MEPs), will not pull the strings. on the strategic line of the party. Salvini defines it as an opportunity to "sanction, update and decide the tracks on which we travel". Frozen battle but high tension, despite appearances.   



Beyond the 'dirty clothes to be washed', the council mainly discusses maneuvering and the maximum commitment on tax cuts: " 9 billion to give citizenship income to crafty and tax evaders is not respectful for those who toil and work - he harangues his Salvini - we will intervene in the Chamber to divert part of those billions on the tax cut ".



And he also warns about Europe: "The EPP has never been so weak, it is unthinkable to join the People's Party also because it is subordinate to the left. And we are alternatives to the left".

As if to say that the road traced together with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the Polish Mateusz Morawiecki is marked.

And it is certainly far from that suggested by Giorgetti.