From the restaurant in RomeTrevi Fountain area, one restaurant in Fiumedinisia few steps from the now famous Urigu streamwhose waters “inspire” the political moves that matter from the South to the North. It’s all there Cateno De Luca in this parallelism between two moments, two meetings, which say or will say a lot about the next steps of the current mayor of Taormina and his movement, which is going through, there is little doubt about this, one of the most delicate phases since it was born (first as True Sicily, today as South calls North).
In that restaurant in the capital De Luca met, last week, an unspecified “Lady X”, whose name is not mentioned, but who according to many is Arianna Meloni, the sister of the prime minister. A meeting that would be part of the new strategy that has made feasible what until yesterday seemed impossible, that is, an alliance with the centre-right, albeit a “new” centre-right, with many ifs and buts, this time. Even today, observers are divided between those who believe that this surprise move is yet another provocation to “flush out” the center-left and those who, instead, think that ultimately the center-right area, at least conceptually, is the one that most naturally it suits De Luca’s political path.
And who knows, maybe the new allies have a hand behind it Raffaele Lombardo (the leader with whom De Luca entered Ars for the first time in 2006) e Gianfranco Miccichèwho just in recent days have formed a new alliance with the mayor of Palermo, Roberto Lagallafor a sort of fifth column within the center-right in an anti-Schifani key.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that last night, during a live social broadcast broadcast at Palazzo dei Normanni, De Luca presented himself together with the “hardbacks” of Ismaele La Vardera, the last to abandon the South Calls North ship ( and precisely for the hypothesized turn to the right announced last Saturday), and of Raffaele Lombardo himself.
In these evocative symbolisms and artfully created misunderstandings De Luca knows how to move like few others, because ultimately doubt plays a role, in a phase in which, however, the former mayor of Messina must stem as much as possible an exodus which, otherwise, risks to become dangerous. In September two years ago, South Calls North could count on eight deputies at the ARS, two parliamentarians in Rome and, within the borders of Messina, after the election of Federico Basile in the first round, on the famous twenty “plus VAT” councilors.
Two years later, in Palazzo Zanca there is no VAT and the councilors who remained faithful to the cause remain thirteen (at least for now), in Rome the sensational farewell of Dafne Musolinoarrived at the court of Matteo Renziand above all at Ars the group has been reduced to three members, including De Luca himself (the others are the very faithful Pippo Lombardo and Matteo Sciotto). So few as to put at risk – unless exceptions are made by the presidency – the very existence of the South calls North group in Sala d’Ercole.