On the one hand the tradition, on the other the novelty.
About thirty kilometers separate Pontida from Monza in Lombardy and there today, at the same time as 10, Lega and Pd will compete at a distance.
On the "sacred soil" of Bergamo chosen by Umberto Bossi in '90 for the meeting of the Carroccio that he was, Matteo Salvini will return after a silence of 3 years.
At the same time, Enrico Letta and the Pd of Mayors will be in Monza snatched in June, surprisingly, from the center-right.
The 'captain' throws it on irony and hospitality, ready to offer his rival bread and salamella if he wants to make a leap: "We can't offer him the sciccherie of Capalbio, we are good people but that is".
And then he reserves him a half jab on the numbers: "We in Pontida will bring a few tens of thousands of people,
So for the first time in this election campaign, the competition moves from the Letta-Meloni duel to the Letta-Salvini one.
The relationship with Mario Draghi clearly puts them in contrast, especially after the lashes that the premier reserved especially for the League yesterday, in his very long press conference.
Letta has no doubts about the support for the former banker: "Yesterday he didn't miss one: from the puppets to all the other things he has faced".
At the antipodes and more bitter Salvini: he says he has not heard the Prime Minister.
Then he attacks him on the dear bill, a real emergency, in his opinion.
Meanwhile, on the two demonstrations there is silence from the Nazarene, if not the 'call to arms' that the leader of the Democratic Party has anticipated to his 'his' in recent days,
Read therefore does not deny coincidence, on the contrary it makes it a strong point.
"We will be in a city where we have won, overturning all the predictions - he underlines - A choice with which the Democratic Party intends to point out the differences with the right".
In short, no northern derby.
Neither ampoules or folklore, but only tricolor bands and many concrete ideas born from the experience of mayors who, having left the restricted perimeter of the LTZ, now administer many small municipalities.
Certainly one week after the vote, between the squares of Monza and Pontida it will be a visual test of strength.
For the League, in reality, the meeting, stopped by the covid for two editions, has been announced for months.
In recent days, only the thrill of the coincidence of Queen Elizabeth's funeral (later scheduled for September 19) has made some fear that her majesty could overshadow the Northern League appointment.
For the Dems, on the other hand, the choice is dictated by the elections: those in June which overturned the first round of the municipal councils by stopping the outgoing mayor of the center-right, Dario Allevi in favor of the high school teacher Paolo Pilotto.
And now the policies of September 25th.
So in full electoral tour the idea "The Municipalities for Italy" was born in Monza: about fifteen mayors will alternate in Piazza Roma,
from Beppe Sala of Milan to the Florentine Dario Nardella from Gori from Bergamo to Tommasi of Verona, passing through Antonio Decaro, national president of Anci.
In closing, Letta will speak.
Same scheme, more or less, in Pontida.
On the stage placed on the historic pratone there will be governors, ministers, parliamentary group leaders of the party with Salvini's final seal, expected at noon.
"Pontida is the largest mass and people's initiative of this electoral campaign", he says proudly.
And he foretells "hundreds of buses, trains, people arriving by plane, columns of bikers and people arriving by bike".
The Senatur, Umberto Bossi, is also expected.
For the Lega it is a great return.
In the archives, the gathering is still on September 15, 2019.
national president ANCI.
In closing, Letta will speak.
Same scheme, more or less, in Pontida.
On the stage placed on the historic pratone there will be governors, ministers, parliamentary group leaders of the party with Salvini's final seal, expected at noon.
"Pontida is the largest mass and people's initiative of this electoral campaign", he says proudly.
And he foretells "hundreds of buses, trains, people arriving by plane, columns of bikers and people arriving by bike".
The Senatur, Umberto Bossi, is also expected.
For the Lega it is a great return.
In the archives, the gathering is still on September 15, 2019.
national president ANCI.
In closing, Letta will speak.
Same scheme, more or less, in Pontida.
On the stage placed on the historic pratone there will be governors, ministers, parliamentary group leaders of the party with Salvini's final seal, expected at noon.
"Pontida is the largest mass and people's initiative of this electoral campaign", he says proudly.
And he foretells "hundreds of buses, trains, people arriving by plane, columns of bikers and people arriving by bike".
The Senatur, Umberto Bossi, is also expected.
For the Lega it is a great return.
In the archives, the gathering is still on September 15, 2019.
expected at noon.
"Pontida is the largest mass and people's initiative of this electoral campaign", he says proudly.
And he foretells "hundreds of buses, trains, people arriving by plane, columns of bikers and people arriving by bike".
The Senatur, Umberto Bossi, is also expected.
For the Lega it is a great return.
In the archives, the gathering is still on September 15, 2019.
expected at noon.
"Pontida is the largest mass and people's initiative of this electoral campaign", he says proudly.
And he foretells "hundreds of buses, trains, people arriving by plane, columns of bikers and people arriving by bike".
The Senatur, Umberto Bossi, is also expected.
For the Lega it is a great return.
In the archives, the gathering is still on September 15, 2019.
Ten days earlier Salvini had left the Viminale after the distrust of Conte and the Conte bis had just been born.
On stage, a 'captain' a little weakened by disappointment had promised revenge from the "lazy and traitors" as he had called Conte and Luigi Di Maio.
Now, however, he is preparing to govern Italy with the center-right.
"For five years," she promises.