Ignazio La Russa unleashed: “Here’s when the vote will be”. Then the blast at Vannacci | Libero Quotidiano.it

The legislature “in my opinion can end at its natural expiration, but it could also end a few months earlier. In the logic of legislatures, interruption at four and a half years is more likely than at five years”: the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa said this on the sidelines of the Ventaglio ceremony, speaking with the Parliamentary Press about the upcoming elections. And adding that “in my opinion voting will be 50 percent at the end of the legislature, 50 percent in this period: May, June.”

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When reporters joked that then “La Russa has become a Christian Democrat,” the head of Palazzo Madama ventured: “I give good odds that it will end, I say 51% that it will go to the end of the legislature.” Referring, instead, to a hypothetical election day for political and administrative elections in case voting should take place in spring, and the possible fears that this could penalize the center-right, La Russa said he “is never afraid of recourse to the vote of the electors. All these calculations often backfire on those who make them.”

The President of the Senate then also spoke about the reform of the electoral law saying he has “no fear” about preferences, there are no more “secret votes.” And again: “In the Chamber, of course, there is the final vote. But that is different, one must say yes or no to the law. Each one then assumes responsibilities, different from those assumed with yes or no to an unsigned amendment. Because that amendment was not signed by everyone.”

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A passage also on the violence at the No-Tav construction site in Val di Susa and in Bologna for the death of Fakir: “I saw that from Meloni to Schlein everyone condemned what happened – he said – then the degrees of sincerity I do not have to go looking for, but in politics what one declares also counts. I would not confuse too much with the terrorism of the Red Brigades or the Black Brigades, because I do not believe that can return. Thank God we defeated it, but the exacerbated violence that leads to episodes like the one in Bologna resembles terrorism without being it. As with femicide, we deemed it necessary to focus on a new crime figure to make it clear that the State does not back down in front of those emergencies, I believe we must all study together, possibly, it would be nice if there was unanimity on this, a response from the State to this escalation of violence, not only unjustified but lacking any foundation.” And again: “I do not hide behind a finger and I invite political forces, even in absolute good faith, which I think was the mayor of Bologna, to carefully evaluate an involuntary encouragement or an involuntary offer of a way to hide. Having called a demonstration when there was not even an autopsy yet, when the civilians who helped the police keep the person concerned had not yet been questioned, was a small gamble. I understand good faith, I understand good will, but it is a gamble.”

Finally, commenting on the recent statements of Roberto Vannacci, La Russa emphasized: “In the race of who is more right-wing, I do not say I win hands down because I would be presumptuous but I say it does not exist.” And he also specified that “it has never been good to say that you are the ‘real right,’ it has happened many times. Also with Rauti when An was born, with an important result: making the center-right lose many constituencies and making the left win. Then Storace arrived, with the torch of the Youth Front, he had a good success, 2.5% with Santanchè as presidential candidate. But I would be careful about a party and a general, whom I respect, following this trend because from a statistical point of view it does not bring much good.” And to the question whether it is better to have Tajani or better Vannacci in the majority, he replied: “I never throw Tajani from the tower, the answer is simple.”

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