The regional president and Luca Zaia’s successor, Alberto Stefani, had promised the Patriarch of Venice and Salvini’s party that he would stand firm. In the end, the end-of-life bill was passed, and within the party there is talk of a ‘U-turn’. 

The regional president and some of his close allies in the Lega continue to disavow the Doge. The formation of a new group in the Regional Council is a real possibility: ideally, reviving that famous ‘Zaia List’ invoked during the election campaign