«If the centre-right candidate is not Renato Schifani, it is not a given that the replacement will be from Forza Italia. Even the Brothers of Italy have men and women ready to take the field to win the regional elections”: the statement that Luca Sbardella, commissioner of FdI, delivered at lunchtime to Tgr Sicilia, transformed the conflict that had opened between the Berluscones after the elections into a poker game between the leaders of the majority. And what is at stake are the Palace of Orleans and early voting. It is a challenge that was played on multiple tables, the public one and the one behind the scenes. So Sbardella’s words can also be read in two ways: one is the claim to the president’s seat for Giorgia Meloni’s party, which lost it in 2022 to the advantage of Forza Italia.
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