League, Vannacci urges: members of my teams will be able to run for office
In the evening, league sources clarify: there is no case, the Vannacci teams are not an alternative to us
Key points
The 'Vannacci team', the rib of the 'Il mondo al contrario' association set up in support of the League's general-vice-secretary, will not be able to do alternative politics to the Carroccio. This is the message that came from the federal council meeting in Milan on Tuesday 21 October.
Vannacci: my team members can apply
But today the general relaunched. And to those who spoke of a stop to possible candidacies, he replied: 'At the moment there are 170 Vannacci team committees in Italy and one in Istria, I hope that there will be 200 before the end of the year and if someone who is in the team wants to present himself at the next elections, he will be able to do so, it is within his legitimacy to do so. Then, seeing that the principles expressed in my book are largely superimposable to those of the League, I hope that they will present themselves with the League'.
League sources: Vannacci team are not an alternative to us
In the evening, party sources threw water on the fire: 'The realities animated by the general are not alternatives to the League,' they clarified, 'Suffice it to say that in the next regional elections in Veneto, four members of the military's association are candidates on the lists of Salvini's party. So they cut it short: 'There is no case on Vannacci's team. Moreover, among the Leghists, it is stressed that nominations are always ratified by the secretary, it is not enough to run for office.
Latent tensions
The aim is to restore calm in the party, after a federal council (Vannacci did not attend because he was attending a plenary session at the Strasbourg parliament) in which there was no shortage of moments of tension, with some bigwigs' peremptory tones towards the Vannacci team. Especially from the 'old guard' of the North, more linked to the issues of autonomy and federalism, the secretary Salvini was asked to put a clear stake in what is seen as a parallel structure and 'hostile to the League'. The comparison made is with the 'Let's rebuild the country' foundation launched by Flavio Tosi: it ended with the expulsion of the then mayor of Verona.
