(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Matteo Salvini apparently is at the showdown. After the farewell of the Lega's social campaign guru Luca Morisi, inventor of the "beast", the debate within the party among the top exponents is, at times, very hard and does not bode well when there is a real test bench on the horizon, the administrative elections of October 4 and October 5.

Matteo Salvini on Luca Morisi, under investigation for possession and sale of drugs, defends the friend who "made a mistake" and distinguishes between those who take drugs and those who deal. "For me, those who sell drugs sell death". But he remarks: "Holding a political speech that has nothing to do with a person's life is a free attack on the League 5 days after the vote ".

There are many reasons for friction that highlight a clear distinction between the ruling class of the north, with Giorgetti as leader, and that of the central south to which Salvini is increasingly trying to anchor. Hot topic on which Giorgia Meloni e Matteo Salvini the support of Michetti in Rome in an anti Giorgetti key converge decisively: "If he knew anything about Rome (reference to Giorgetti ed), he would know that Calenda will never get to the ballot, so I don't understand the meaning ". "He (Michetti ed) has the competence to start from the suburbs, and not from the salons of Calenda ", remarks Salvini on TV. The vitriolic response to number two in the League, Giancarlo Giorgetti who, in a statement, had praised Carlo Calenda, an opponent in the administrative elections of the capital where the center-right presents himself united with the candidacy of Enrico Michetti.

Also on the slope openings there is another dissonance within the League. The leader Salvini opposes the prudence of the governors of the north: "We open everything because if the green pass makes you safe and you can go to the stadium and the theater, you can do it at full capacity". The Friulian governor Massimiliano Fedrigaon the other hand, it shares the decision of the Technical Scientific Committee on openings and defines it as “balanced”. And underlines: "The proposal of the Regions was perfectly received by the CTS even in the percentages that we had reasonably suggested".

On the name for the after Mattarella al Quirinal Salvini extinguishes Giorgetti's initiatives in the bud: "I don't have much time to read the interviews", that of Giorgetti yesterday in print which reports the hypothesis of Mario Draghi at the Quirinale with early elections. "That sooner or later we go to the vote, and I am preparing to be up to the government of the country, says democracy“, Salvini pressed. Then, the lunge: "Unlike others, I do not wear a jacket or 'Draghi' or 'Mattarella. It is a lack of respect for them. In February we will talk about it again".

To rejoice in the situation within the League are Pd, M5S and in some ways also Fdi by Giorgia Meloni. We hope that the party of via Bellerio will soon find a synthesis to be able to face the next electoral challenges compact around a single leader. The next appointments are crucial for consolidating and supporting Matteo Salvini's political choices or decisive for radically changing the party's route, making it more and more northern-style.

The showdown