The center-right argues over the Third mandate in Friuli: there is a crisis in the Fedriga government

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Seven councilors from Lega, Forza Italia and the civic list that supports President Fedriga have resigned in the past few hours, saying they are willing to resign from the regional government of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In essence, a crisis has opened up in the region in the government majority, all centered on the hypothesis that Massimiliano Fedriga could run for a third term . In the past few days, the climate within the local center-right has also heated up following an interview given by the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani, from Pordenone, who took offense at the early inauguration of the Pordenone hospital, which he called "a joke". According to the local plenipotentiaries of the coalition, however, those words served to bring out a bad mood that is fueled above all by the third term issue.

When the government challenged the Campania regional law that wanted to extend the number of mandates of Vincenzo De Luca, later obtaining the rejection of the Campania law also by the Constitutional Court, Fedriga said he was willing, for his part, to consider the possibility of running for a third mandate . This is because Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a region with a special statute and the ruling of the Consulta, as specified later, applies only to regions with an ordinary statute. But also because in the meantime the autonomous province of Trento has also equipped itself with its own law to allow the president Maurizio Fugatti, a member of the Northern League, to run for a third mandate.

Except that Fratelli d'Italia, as well as Forza Italia, have always been against the third mandate . And after having received the rejection of the Consulta, they would like the matter to be standardized at a national level. For this reason today the majority is thinking of bringing the challenge against the Trentino law to the Council of Ministers. In order to have the constitutional judges express their opinion also on the regions with special statutes. And thus try to block the road to possible rushes forward, such as that of Fedriga in his region.

For now, however, the president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a member of a party like the League that has recently become a great promoter of the third mandate because "the citizens must choose", has not yet decided what to do. He has taken a couple of days to understand how to respond to the crisis that has opened up in the region. On Tuesday he will also have the opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who will be attending the Festival of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces underway in Venice. Knowing also that, in the event that his majority were to crumble and he were to fall, he could already run for a new mandate, having governed for less than two and a half legislatures.

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