The right-wing populists are likely to be on Sunday the regional election in Sardinia. The election is considered a test run for a new coalition in Rome. Italy moves to the right. Bernd Riegert from Sardinia.
Pop music booms through the marketplace of Sassari. On the brightly lit stage of the political pop star in Italy, Matteo Salvini, with his back to the audience. In the Arm he is holding a young man and makes him a Selfie photo. In a long series of the followers of the radical right-wing politician, to come to the stage. Even including a dark-skinned family with a recognisable migration background. Every 30 seconds, Salvini turned, smiling a souvenir photo. Two hours this goes. This Selfie-Sessions are the hallmark of his election campaign. In the meantime, he pulls a cigarette or one of the present television journalists to Interview. From his pocket a small Teddy bear that a fan gave to Peeps.
The Minister of the interior has made with his hard-hitting style, and his hard stance against migrants popular. In opinion polls he is ahead. He would resign today, the eight-month-old coalition with the populist “movement 5 stars” in Rome, he would have a good chance to be after the elections of the next head of government of Italy. According to the regional election in Sardinia on Sunday and the European elections at the end of may, in which Salvini, with its “Lega”party victories could be, he will feel strong enough to take this step, suspect the political commentators in Italy. A test of choice in the Abruzzo Region prior to 14 days had won Salvini already. There is a Neo-fascist of the “brothers of Italy” President of the Region.
In the election campaign, but is in solidarity with the “little people”. He promises low taxes, better pensions
Salvini holds covered
On the question of the DW, if he wanted to because soon to be Prime Minister, on laughs but short. Then he answers: “I am the Minister of the interior. I have no intention to be Prime Minister. I take care of the public security, the Mafia, the smuggling of people, drugs, terrorists. It is an honor for me to do this Job. I’ll keep it for a long time.” Six days long toured the interior Minister previously by Sardinia and stylized the be held on Sunday the regional election to the mood test for the whole of Italy. “You have only the choice between the Lega and the Left, the choice between the future and the downfall. We get rid of the Left!”, Salvini called out to his cheering Fans at the fish and vegetable market in the coastal town of Alghero. With the Left of the right-wing party chief, not only now on the verge of insignificance around rocking the social Democrats and the Communists, the populist “5 star movement”, the unloved coalition partners in Rome.
In his short speeches Salvini against Migration, … a withdrawal of the pension reform and more respect for the Nation’s promises. “We have a flag, a language, an identity, a history, a Tradition, a culture, we have to live. A tree that has no roots, it will die.” His opponents, of which only a few are protesting on the market, he calls out to the cheers of the crowd, the people, the “everywhere the fascists and Mars, people see”, he could not take it seriously.
Clean Morittu: “And then he looks good!”
His followers wish for Salvini as Prime
Clean Morittu, a vegetable seller in Alghero, Matteo Salvini as head of government. “That would be great!” And she is sure that at the latest after the European elections in Italy’s political landscape, something will change. “This will happen very soon.” Earlier clean Morittu has sympathized with the “5 stars”. “But you have made a lot of mistakes. In the case of Salvini, however, you can see that he tackles the things. Besides, he looks good,” says the seller, and tackled courageously Clementines for a customer, who nods in agreement. Meanwhile, Salvini makes more incessantly Selfies on a small Podium in the crumbling market hall of Alghero. He takes a lot of time, hugging, joking, talking. On the question of why he’s posing for hours, says the Minister of the left: “I listen to the people, because people listen to me.”
Salvatore Manca: “Salvini government should be boss”
The Pensioner Gavina is excited by Salvini. She sets her shopping bags, a show of hands and underlines, with sweeping Gestures, your words: “He is the Only one that makes something Tangible and will deliver on its promise. The One And Only!” The Lega-the chief benefit of holding particularly the radical shift in migration policy. He had closed the ports for migrants. Refugee ships should no longer create calls Salvini. The people cheering.
Coalition with Berlusconi and the Neo-fascists?
The fishmonger Salvatore Manca is convinced that Matteo Salvini provides order and security. “He loves the people. The people and the police like him,” says Salvatore Manca of the DW. “He should go with the ‘brothers of Italy’, and then the Prime Minister,” wish for a fish merchant in the market hall. The “brothers of Italy” is a neo-fascist party, which could form the Lega Salvini’s and the Forza Italia of Ex-Prime Minister and media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, a right-wing populist coalition. The extreme nationalist party, head of the ‘brothers of Italy’, Giorgia Meloni, has offered in an Interview for possible early elections as a possible partner in government. Also the 82 years of Silvio Berlusconi, is not averse to an Alliance with the radical Right.
Antonio Di Rosa: “In Italy, total confusion reigns”
“Salvini is a strategist”
“Italy is confused and is drifting to the right”, says the election campaign in Sardinia, the editor-in-chief of the great Sardinian newspaper “La Nuova Sardegna”, Antonio Di Rosa, in an interview with DW. Di Rosa has a long talk with Matteo Salvini and is convinced that he is very smart and a clear Plan is followed. “He is a strategic politician, but he is without a culture and without a deeper Knowledge. He makes, what good is it without Beliefs behind it,” warns Di Rosa. The populist “5 stars” stuck in a deep crisis, because you always said no to everything. “I think that Salvini will lead to the European elections, national elections and then a new right-wing coalition forging. After these elections we will have a new government.”
Posters to stick for the test election: polls predict a victory of the right coalition