Lazio and Lombardy regionals, Fontana: 'I am the president of the Lombards, not of the parties'

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: the center-right wins the Regionals, effectively reinforcing, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni immediately commented, "the action of the government".

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"I am the president of the Lombards, not of the parties":

Attilio Fontana, who has just been reconfirmed governor of the Lombardy Region, clarified this by speaking to ANSA and emphasizing his role in the formation of the junta which "will be the Fontana junta".

The direct election "legitimizes me before the citizens," he added.

The new junta should be ready, considering the technical times, by mid-March and "will be in continuity" with the previous one "in terms of content".

"You have all written that Moratti was the perfect candidate for Lombardy - so

Lazio with a great candidate and coalition fared worse. We've been voting for 30 years and we're unhappy with who we vote for. I've always argued that we vote for the wrong reasons: belonging and fashion. And you only need to look at the abstention to tell. It's the reason we have founded Action. If this morning you want to argue that the vote in Fontana is based on the results of good governance, do so. The voters decide but they're not always right. Otherwise we wouldn't be like this". 

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at the regional ones in Lazio and Lombardy "having swept it means that the citizens are appreciating what we are doing in the government".

A "team" victory underlined the deputy premier and secretary of the League speaking on Aria Pula on 7 Gold.

"The first messages, the ones that gave me the most pleasure - he underlined - are those of Giorgia and Silvio. The commitment to move forward with patience and consistency is mutual".

According to Salvini, the one obtained by the League in Lombardy is a wonderful result.

He explained to Telelombardia that "compared to four months ago, the Lega and the Fontana list have recovered 10%".

"I'm happy for me, for Giorgia, for Silvio. It's a beautiful Valentine's Day" he added, explaining that it will be "

"I don't want to push myself to give Matteo Salvini advice, because I don't think he needs it - said the mayor of Milan,

, commenting on the Lega's result - and he wouldn't accept it willingly. But the Salvini who goes to see the construction sites and gets busy is worth more than the polemical Salvini".

"I try to give him some advice from someone who is twenty years older: perhaps if you work more, do things, get lost less in tweets or tik toks, you can work – he added -. The League held, this is a bit ' a surprise".

On social media, Forza Italia leader

once again comments on the election results and thanks FI's "candidates, militants and managers" in Lombardy and Lazio.

"Their work was decisive," he writes.

"Even the government - he adds - emerges stronger from these elections: the vote of the voters does justice to the attempts to divide our coalition which has been united for 29 years and which is once again rewarded by the vote of the Italians who did not get confused from the artificial controversies of the left and have rewarded our coherence and our determination".

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but, everyone agrees, the internal balance of the majority does not change much.

And therefore the leadership of Giorgia Meloni in the center-right is consolidated.

But the allies are holding - in the case of the League much more than the forecasts on the eve, especially in Lombardy - and are already ready today, it is the bet that many are making, to start over with the small disagreements, with the distinctions, which risk making bumpy road to government.

Hence the need for Palazzo Chigi, we reason in coalition circles, to proceed without "snags" Yesterday as today, in short, it is more the parties that support her that worry the premier than the opposition.

Of course, it is a reasoning that is done in the house of Fdi, the only alternative to this government is the vote and a new passage to the polls, says a party leader " 

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