Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani’s promise: what the party intends

«I’m convinced that within one, two years we’ll reach 20 percent, just because we have some good ideas…». Antonio Tajani closes the “three days” of Paestum, which began with day B in memory of Cav, between the memory of the golden times and the fireworks. The legacy left by the founder of the FI is heavy, the European elections are approaching with the risk of failure just around the corner, and the secretary is trying to raise the bar, indicating a double-digit target, which seems very ambitious. António’s “new direction”, as his supporters call him, officially begins today with the National Council giving the green light to an iron fist against “defaulters” (those who do not pay the fee of 900 euros per month will lose their party positions), the shielding of the symbol with Berlusconi’s name inside and the expansion of the secretariat to 4, including the vicar (the most voted), “greater powers” in provincial congresses called for the first time to also elect national and the Messina Bridge named after Silvio, a symbolic work for the relaunch of the South.

Tajani effectively opens the parliamentary phase, which for now sees him as the only candidate, guarantees that he wants to “build on marble” his “political project”, made “not of slogans”, but of “concrete proposals”. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister makes his voice heard in the audience, closes ranks, tries to reassure those who feel like Berlusconi’s orphans, invites them to remain united, thus sending a message to internal currents in the run-up to the elections Europeans, because he knows very well that what was signed at the Ariston hotel, headquarters of the Forzista event, is not a true peace, but rather a truce (for many armed). And the vote in Brussels will be the watershed that many fear and that the Italian number one wants to transform into a new beginning. “I’m optimistic, I’m convinced that the more time passes, the more we will grow and the more people will realize that there are serious people here who don’t talk nonsense”, he guarantees. Before him, Licia Ronzulli took the stage and has remained discreet until now. The leader of the group in the Senate (considered the leader of the area in competition with the predominant Tajani supporters, who form an axis with the supporters of Marta Fascina), shows a peach to mock the Esselunga commercial of a “left without ideas”, launches a olive branch to the secretary (“I trust António, he looks at our future”) and proposes extending membership for a month to still allow anyone who wants to register, “without this choice having any effect on the times we are given for the holding the National Congress.” An extension that sounds like an invitation to hold a true Congress, open to all sensitivities, in response to Tajani’s requests. Furthermore, a measure to keep the real game open, that of the provincial congresses, where The count will be made for the election of delegates who will vote in the national assemblies. The proposal comes after the announcement by the national membership manager, Tullio Ferrante, deputy closest to the Cav partner: «We are a living and vital party, the membership has tripled. We went from 6 thousand in 2022 to almost 18 thousand in 2023.”

Source: IL Tempo

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