“Let’s win the Champions League” –

Edoardo Romagnoli

02 June 2024

“We gained the championship, now we win the Champions League.” Giorgia Meloni in her function as coach harangues the crew gathered in Piazza del Popolo, the identical one which Fratelli d’Italia selected to shut the 2022 political marketing campaign. Giorgia’s folks responded current even when on the numbers offered by the celebration, 30 thousand, and people of the Police Headquarters, 20 thousand, 10 thousand folks dance. Rino Gaetano sounds from the audio system, interspersed with the electoral advert «I vote for Giorgia» and the now well-known skit with Vincenzo De Luca (“I am that bitch Meloni”). Within the gazebos arrange across the sq. designed by Valadier, tricolors, FdI flags, “let’s change Europe” t-shirts and “Italian pleasure” caps are distributed. In the present day is Giorgia’s day and it’s no coincidence that the federal government representatives don’t go on stage and stay in the midst of the group, Nordio full with a hat. The one on 8 and 9 June will likely be a referendum between two totally different concepts of Europe, “the ideological one” of the left and “our concrete and proud one”. Meloni calls her folks collectively for these final days of the electoral marketing campaign and units the bar at 26% (the share with which she was elected Prime Minister) figuring out that the actual goal is to have the ability to get as shut as attainable to 30%; a not so distant speculation provided that within the European elections, traditionally, the vote is polarized favoring the governing celebration and its direct opponent. «Let’s elevate the stakes, we’re at a turning level, now let’s make historical past» shouts Meloni from the stage. A speech that lasted greater than an hour through which the tones alternate, gentle and loud, ironic and offended, the posture of a major minister and the dances to the choruses of the group chanting “Giorgia, Giorgia”.

Is there even time to take away a number of pebbles out of your shoe, one above all? DeLuca. «Ought to an insulted girl react or submit? Or does it solely apply as a result of I’m a right-wing girl and he’s a left-wing man?”. Then he turns on to Elly Schlein, asking her to account for the phrases of the PES candidate Schmidt who outlined the European Conservatives as a non-democratic power. «Elly do you agree or not? Do not run away at the least this time. If I’m a dictator, what do you do, the armed wrestle to depose me?”. Schlein chief of the Democratic Occasion which acknowledges “democracy provided that they’re in cost”. Those self same democrats who discuss TeleMeloni “as a result of TelePd is over”, which “massacres” Prime Minister Edi Rama for the Italy-Albania Pact. Who chases the leaders of half of Europe in the hunt for somebody who can distance themselves from them, solely to then hand over following “15 EU nations out of 27 have requested to copy the Italian mannequin”. The message is straightforward: “They dismantle, we construct.”
After the Democratic Occasion it’s the flip of the 5 Stars who “have betrayed all the guarantees made” and have gone from “those that needed to remodel Parliament right into a glass palace to a consociational celebration of the First Republic”.

And when “the fog of propaganda clears and solely the reality stays, the left has no selection however to mud off the monster card.” The ambiance heats up greater than the Roman Saturday solar has already finished and a girl within the entrance rows can’t stand it, feels sick and is taken away by the 118 operators. It’s the solely second through which Meloni interrupts himself, besides one other pause for a brief sip of water. The Prime Minister retains the stress of his folks excessive, asks them to commit, not to surrender: «I gave up every part I might hand over simply because I did not wish to disappoint you, I ask you in alternate for simply 5-10 minutes of your time to inform me that you’re by my facet”. As a result of these European elections, her candidacy as chief in all of the constituencies is certainly a option to lead the celebration in these elections however additionally it is a medium-term check to grasp whether or not the nation remains to be together with her or not.