In Leopard Sicily it also happens that there are two tables, one from the centre-right and one from the centre-left, and that there are those who, despite not formally sitting at either of those two tables, end up becoming protagonists. Direct or not. The subject is always Cateno De Luca, who with enviable ease goes in the space of a few hours from talking with Mirello Crisafulli at the Festa dell’Unità in Enna to posing smiling in a three-way selfie with Renato Schifani and Gaetano Galvagno, from meeting Ignazio La Russa in Rome, perhaps Arianna Meloni and who knows who else, to receiving the endorsement of the most Renzian of Renzians outside here on the Strait, Davide Faraone. The broad camp argues about many things and among these one of the diatribes concerns the veto of De Luca (but also the ambitions of Ismaele La Vardera). The centre-right must understand how to deal with the Vannaccia wave and, for this reason, it deals with movements and small parties with the “carpets” of constantly updated polls: anyone today who exceeds 1% becomes a privileged interlocutor, because with the new electoral law they cannot afford any luxury.
The movements within Forza Italia
Tommaso Calderone’s move from Forza Italia to Vannacci has not gone unnoticed and could accelerate a process that was already at the center of several plots last summer: the political “takeover bid” launched by the Genovese family on an increasingly weakened Forza Italia. The hypothesis of a place in the sun in Parliament for the current president of Ast Luigi Genovese, with the “blessing” of the increasingly powerful Calabrian governor Roberto Occhiuto, is increasingly less far-fetched. And it would significantly change the balance within the center-right of Messina, and beyond.