A penalty kicked into an empty goal in a half-empty stadium that some teammates weren’t happy about. Confirming all predictions on the eve, Francesco Rocca became the new president of Lazio, a region where only 37% of beneficiaries vote. Slightly more than one in three voters confirmed the true victory of the Brothers of Italy, the centre-right catch-all list that received more than 33% of the vote, with Lega and Forza Italia picking up the crumbs.

The expected defeat, however, differs from expectations for the centre-left, which the Democratic Party approves of its usual percentages and actually improves. The Third Pole is terrible, Action is a faded memory of the Calendar List that could be the first party in Rome in the 2021 municipal elections. Instead, another 5% is a sad threshold that cannot be reached. But even if Sparta weeps, Athens does not laugh. Yes, because Giuseppe Conte’s party, who aspires to be the beacon of the left, is drastically shrinking, abandoning his former Prime Minister candidate and leaving Giuseppe Conte alone to comment on an electoral defeat. a master.

These are data left on the ground by Lazio regional officials, who are waiting to learn of the council’s new composition, redesigning the balance of power at this hour, and prompting reflection on the building of Lazio’s future government.

abandoned stadium

Would you go to a game where you already know the outcome, where players are more dependent on singles for their own good rather than putting on a show with game ideas worth paying for and applauding? All this after a disappointing Champions League final in which the team that hadn’t played in five years was clearly victorious? Faced with such a picture, a stadium (a cold winter in the week of Sanremo songs) one-third full already seems like a feat. However, the numbers are impressive and show that Rocca (but the same goes for the mayor of Gualtieri, who won in 2021, remember) is a president voted for by only a small minority of Lazio citizens today. And this will not fail to take into account in his government.

Penalty with empty net

Rocca’s win was a penalty kicked into the empty nets. This time, Meloni chose a safe name for the spot, keeping an eye on the pole hit (always with an empty net) by the folks’ tribune Enrico Michetti. Rocca received 50% of the vote, driven by the national wind and their opponents’ divisions, and entered an internal rivalry over “who is more important despite the defeat”. An advantage, domination, a state of extreme power that drives the centre-right leader to stay on the bench: with Rocca Meloni we have seen far less than expected, less than we thought needed. Rocca benefited from the internal unity that was missing five years ago, thanks to the Scarpone pact (always rejected between Zingaretti and the former mayor of Amatrice Pirozzi, but capable at the time of decentralizing the decisive vote). -right) and a candidate ejected from Milan. The outgoing governor barely survived even then. In ways similar to Rocca’s, a handful of votes gave him a second term after his first win in 2013. Even then, Zingaretti, after Polverini’s management, found an empty rook where he only had to push the winning ball.

Losers announced

Ten years later the Zingaretti administration is archived. Alessio D’Amato and the centre-left also bordered on defeat. The percentage of votes won is even higher than its predecessor, but this time much less than a unified centre-right. Some democratic currents, disillusioned with the election of the presidential candidate, and others, now more preoccupied with the general rehearsals of regional and municipal congresses, now in an arrogant show of strength, lacked the impulse of all the spirits of the coalition. capitol In 2021, the pressure from the mayors’ outstanding star player Carlo Calenda was missing, a little over a year later he was demoted to the audience of a match in which he was the first to choose not to play, and confined himself to tweeting from an anonymous subordinate. The miracle of D’Amato would not have succeeded even with the grills in the team, because this time from parts of Giuseppe Conte’s party, despite the brand propaganda of Rocco Casalino, it is necessary to comment on a defeat.

Conte disappeared after beating

Yes, because that meager 10% is a beating for Goffredo Bettini, who is blessed by the eternal lord of the Roman left and aims to kickstart his bid to take over the Democratic party with the Lazio regional elections. For those who send their followers to the negotiating table of the centre-left to tell them that there is no longer a single sun around which alliances revolve. For those who overthrew a national government and broke an alliance in the region in the name of waste-to-power plant charity. As little as 10 percent is such a defeat to dematerialize Giuseppe Conte, the father and master of the former Five Star Movement, in the commentary stage, that as of today it is weaker than Virginia Raggi’s party, but also weaker than Roberta Lombardi’s party or even hers. appeared. With higher percentages than those collected by Davide Barillari, the candidate elected by all three advocates of the people.