The avalanche from Rome rolls toward Sicily: the center-right trembles, no one is safe on the Island.

The avalanche that started in Rome could also overwhelm Sicily. After the defeat in the referendum on justice, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni demanded a change of pace: out goes Undersecretary Andrea Del Mastro, out goes the chief of staff of Minister Nordio, Giusi Bartolozzi. Also out is the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè, although the latter incredibly still resists despite the public request for her to step down from the President of the Council.

From Sicily, particularly from Fratelli d'Italia, there is now a watchful eye on what will happen in the coming hours in the Capital with ambivalent feelings. Part of the Sicilian party expects that the general cleanup will also cross the Strait, while another part looks on with anxiety and a certain worry at the unfolding events. Because - this is the reasoning being made off the record in Meloni's circles on the Island - "if Santanchè also falls, all territories with unpleasant situations will be involved in cascade.” 

The unpleasant situations in Sicily for Fratelli d'Italia are called Elvira Amata and Gaetano Galvagno. The former is facing an accusation of corruption and a request for indictment from the Palermo Prosecutor's Office, on which the judge will rule on April 20. In the meantime, however, for the other party involved in this affair, in the role of corruptor - the entrepreneur Marcella Cannariato who has chosen the abbreviated trial - the magistrates have requested a sentence of two and a half years. The decision for her will also arrive on April 20.

A date that is influencing the reshuffle of Renato Schifani's council. But the events of the last few hours could also impose an acceleration on the stagnant Sicilian political world. "Certainly - comments to La Sicilia the commissioner of Fratelli d'Italia in Sicily, Luca Sbardella - if the electorate wanted to send us a message, it is right to take it into account. But the connection with the Santanchè affair I would say is forced, we will wait. At the moment I have no sense of a change in direction on the Island.” 

Where the other big name that could become expendable is the president of the Ars, on trial for corruption after choosing immediate judgment. As is known, Galvagno has in his fellow townsman Ignazio La Russa his staunchest defender in the Roman corridors. The president of the Senate is also the main cause of Santanchè. Thus, with the largest dam fallen, no one in the territories would have the strength to say no to any requests for backtracking. "What is happening in Rome is just an intermediate step," reasons a Sicilian meloniano from the very beginning - If it has been decided to give such a strong directive act, it will end up having repercussions even in the territories." And on the Island, no party in the majority can consider itself safe, given the judicial proceedings and investigations that have spared no one.

That is why the  "Sicily case" is constantly used by the opposition to poke Meloni on one of the founding themes of Brothers of Italy: legality and transparency. This obviously happens in Sicily, where the latest to press has been this morning Ismaele La Vardera: "Giorgia Meloni - says the deputy of Controcorrente - knows that in Sicily there is a request for indictment for corruption hanging over one of her assessors? Why does she use the rod in Rome and cotton wool in Sicily? She should have the courage not to apply double standards and to be consistent. President Schifani used like a doormat by Rome does not have the courage to kick Amata out because she is evidently protected by Brothers of Italy."

However, this is happening more and more often, even on a national scale. All the more so today after the outcome of the referendum and the first resignations. Last night, the leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte, a guest on Di Martedì on La7, reminded us: "In the face of the Sicilian cases of Brothers of Italy, are we waiting for another democratic vote?"

"As long as it was a confined case, it could be downplayed as local - reasons a Sicilian meloniano - but when it becomes a national weapon, it is easier for intervention to occur. Moreover, the Sicilian data from the referendum, even more disastrous than the national ones, facilitate this reasoning.