Salvini warns Vannacci and dictates the line, less slogans and more pragmatism

General Vannacci, if he decides to tear it up, is already archived. The Matteo Salvini, who closes the three-day confrontation between national leaders and local administrators organised by the party in Abruzzo (between Roccaraso and Rivisondoli), never mentions the general in his speech. But he does utter clear-cut words: 'History teaches that those who leave the League end up in nothing'. And it matters little if the reference, as he later clarifies to reporters, is not to the deputy secretary and MEP ('I'll see him this week') but to the two deputies Davide Bergamini and Attilio Pierro, who recently left the League to move to Forza Italia.

The fact remains that with his warning to mariners, the 'captain', who had staked his cards on Vannacci at the European elections to revive a party in debt of oxygen and votes, does not seem in the mood for regrets should the rumours of the general's split (who on the hypothesis of creating his own party has recetiously declared: 'Never say never') materialise. Moreover, Salvini has good reason to claim the success of the League at the last regional elections in Veneto (first party with 36%) to tickle the Lega pride ("we are still healthy, even if they thought we were dead, we closed 2025 with a membership growing by 34%"), motivate the militants ("there are captains and generals, but the strength of the League is the troop") and dictate the line in view of the 2027 political elections.

A political line under the banner of pragmatism. Few slogans. A few attacks on the opposition ('who are only now waking up on security issues'). A few stylistic jabs at 'journalists' and magistrates. Much space to the League's ability to be 'concrete', 'transforming votes and ideas into actions'. A League that 'affects and decides'.

Salvini's is a punctilious list. It starts with the aid decree for Ukraine ("for the first time this year, the defence of civilians took the primary place over weapons). It continues with thestop to the trade agreement Ue-Mercosur ("we demand reciprocity on rules and quality controls") and the scrapping of tax bills. It continues with Operation Safe Streets ("it is thanks to us that the current 6,800 military personnel have been confirmed, but at least 10,000 are needed"), with the 20 million allocated in the budget law for separated fathers who lose their housing after divorce, and, of course, with the security decree ("we are asking for 100, then we will synthesise with the other parties", but "within the limits of the code" girls and boys in uniform "should have an even freer hand").

Not forgetting the referendum on the separation of the careers of magistrates, for which the League is mobilising, on the understanding that 'it is not the point of arrival, it is a passage', because 'the real point of arrival will be the civil responsibility of magistrates'.