(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 16 – The League party led by Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday held a meeting of the federal council at the end of which it issued a note saying Salvini, Veneto Governor Luca Zaia, a leading member of the party, and the council shared all objectives, that Veneto represented a model of regional government and that a winning team should never be changed.
“Veneto is a model of good government appreciated at a national and international level”, said the note, adding that “you shouldn’t change a winning team”.
The gathering discussed the issue of a third term for governors, said the note.
Regional elections are scheduled to be held this year in a number of regions including Veneto.
Under the existing rules, the League’s highly popular Veneto Governor Zaia faces having to step down.
Salvini and Zaia are staunch supporters of lifting the existing ban on regional governors serving three consecutive terms in office, saying it is a limitation of democracy.
Overall, representatives of Premier Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FDI) party – the main party in the right-centre majority – and of the League’s other majority coalition partner Forza Italia oppose the change, together with the main opposition groups, the Democratic Party (Pd) and the Five Star Movement (M5S), with notable exceptions including PD Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca.
The government has appealed to the Constitutional Court against a regional law passed by the Campania regional assembly last year to enable centre-left Governor De Luca to stand for a third term over its conflict with the national law setting a two-term limit for governors.
After the meeting on Thursday, the League’s whip in the Senate, Massimiliano Romeo, said that, “as a party of the territory”, the League wants to “keep the regions where it governs”.
“And it is in Meloni’s interest, at the end, to find a satisfying solution ensuring that loyal and collaborative allies are satisfied”, he added. (ANSA).
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“Veneto is a model of good government appreciated at a national and international level”, said the note, adding that “you shouldn’t change a winning team”.
The gathering discussed the issue of a third term for governors, said the note.
Regional elections are scheduled to be held this year in a number of regions including Veneto.
Under the existing rules, the League’s highly popular Veneto Governor Zaia faces having to step down.
Salvini and Zaia are staunch supporters of lifting the existing ban on regional governors serving three consecutive terms in office, saying it is a limitation of democracy.
Overall, representatives of Premier Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FDI) party – the main party in the right-centre majority – and of the League’s other majority coalition partner Forza Italia oppose the change, together with the main opposition groups, the Democratic Party (Pd) and the Five Star Movement (M5S), with notable exceptions including PD Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca.
The government has appealed to the Constitutional Court against a regional law passed by the Campania regional assembly last year to enable centre-left Governor De Luca to stand for a third term over its conflict with the national law setting a two-term limit for governors.
After the meeting on Thursday, the League’s whip in the Senate, Massimiliano Romeo, said that, “as a party of the territory”, the League wants to “keep the regions where it governs”.
“And it is in Meloni’s interest, at the end, to find a satisfying solution ensuring that loyal and collaborative allies are satisfied”, he added. (ANSA).
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