League in Roccaraso without Vannacci. Bump and response with Francesca Pascale
The kermis sees party bigwigs (ministers, undersecretaries, parliamentarians) called to debate with militants and local administrators until 25 January. Controversy over a panel on end-of-life and ethical issues with the participation of Francesca Pascale, Silvio Berlusconi's former partner, who has always been close to the Lgbtq world
Key points
He calls for a vote 'for coherence' against the conversion into law of the decree on aid to Ukraine, despite the agreement found by the League with the other majority parties for a text in which priority is given to civil aid over military aid. He has a busy agenda (yesterday he was in Ventimiglia for a meeting organised by his teams at a conference entitled 'Security is not a slogan. It is a right') for theatres and squares of Italy.
Vannacci's absence at the Lega in Abruzzo
Yet Roberto Vannacci, deputy secretary of the League, is not attending the three-day event (23 to 25 January) organised by the Carroccio between Roccaraso and Rivisondoli in Abruzzo. It is a kermis that sees all the party bigwigs (ministers, undersecretaries, parliamentarians) called to debate with militants and local administrators on topical issues: from security to the referendum on justice; from the economy to schools. Vannacci's absence is a weighty one. And it marks a distance and probably a desire to emphasise his autonomy within the party.
Dissidents in the League
On the possible birth of his own political formation, the MEP has long kept his cards covered. "Never say never in life!" he declared yesterday in an interview with the Nem group newspapers, leaving the door open. At other times he had branded split hypotheses as 'political speculation'. The fact remains that in the Chamber of Deputies on 15 January two Leghist deputies (Rossano Sasso and Edoardo Ziello) preferred the Vannacci line to the Salvini line and, disregarding the party's instructions, voted against the majority resolution on Ukraine. Like them Emanuele Pozzolo, formerly of FdI, who when Vannacci came to the Chamber a month ago admitted 'a commonality of visions with many of the general's positions'. Too few to create an autonomous group in Montecitorio. Enough to imagine the 'vanguard' of a party to the right of the League, like the German Afd
The civil rights debate
The Abruzzo kermesse of the Lega Abruzzese is entitled 'Ideas in Motion'. A slogan (alongside the other 'Our strength is the territories') that is not accidental. The fact that there is ferment and discussion going on in the party is confirmed by the fact that the programme includes a panel on end-of-life and ethical issues with the participation of Francesca Pascale, Silvio Berlusconi's former partner, who has always been close to the Lgbtq world and has never been tender in the past with Salvini's League.
The Vannacci-Pascale back-and-forth
A presence that the 'hardliners' did not like. Including Vannacci, who adds sarcastically: 'I didn't know that Pascale, besides being a doctor and academic in civil rights, was also a fine political analyst'. But Pascale is no less harsh: 'Will Vannacci leave the League over the issue of rights? It's an alibi, in reality he built the split long ago, he used the League, Salvini and the entire League electorate to get his space. And this is politically terrible'.
