French elections, Schlein: the right can be beaten. Salvini: the heap built by Macron doesn't have the numbers

The coup d'état in France, with the gauche triumphing in the second round of the legislative elections and Le Pen's Rn relegated to third place, the big loser, finds Italian politics, predictably, on different sides. The left rejoices. It is frost, dressed in caution, on the right. Overall, Italian politics was taken by surprise.

Between resistance and desistance: the Italian left plays with words. 'Extraordinary result for the united left and a beautiful response of participation. The right can be beaten,' exults PD Elly Schlein, secretary of the Italian Democratic Party. "The great participation of the French people rewards the popular and progressive proposal of those who have never had any doubts about peace, the defence of social rights and the protection of the most fragile," Giuseppe Conte chimes in, reading "a signal of democratic drive that today speaks to the whole of Europe". "The New Popular Front wins and saves the Republic from the onslaught of the extreme right," added Nicola Fratoianni, who sees in the transalpine vote "an indication of hope" for our country. "Fear has won. Macron's gamble has turned out to be a winner,' says a more pragmatic Filippo Sensi who extols 'the cordon sanitaire against the worst of the European right' and then, caustically, the Dem senator comments: 'At Palazzo Chigi someone is toasting. With a thinly veiled reference to the friction between the government allies in both domestic and European terms.

"And I believe you," plays along Claudio Borghi of the League, who responds to Sensi with a smiling emoticon. The Lega player is long the only one in the centre-right to speak out on the French vote, calling it a 'masterpiece in reverse of Macron' who leaves France 'to a left-wing-dominated heap'. A viaticum for a victorious Le Pen ride in the next presidential election, he predicts. For the immediate term, however, 'we await with open arms Rn among the Patriots' to build 'finally the real alternative to this rotten EU'.

"The 'all against Le Pen' pile-up built by Macron that wins elections but does not have the numbers to govern". League leader Matteo Salvini says this on social media. "And in Parliament in Paris 143 RN MPs will arrive, never so many in history with a growth in votes from 33% to 37% between the first and second rounds, remaining the largely most voted party, in the silence of the media. The 'all against one' reduced the number of seats, but not the consensus for Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, to whom I send a big hug."

"The lesson of the French elections must make everyone realise that the extreme right or the right alone is condemned to lose because all the other forces are ganging up against it. The only antidote is to have a strong centre, allied and alternative to the left'. Thus Forza Italia secretary Antonio Tajani in his speech to the party's national council.