Borgonzoni way. Red Bologna, Northern League mother, tax credit war. Portrait of undersecretary

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When she talks about herself, as undersecretary at the MIC, and the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, Lucia Borgonzoni paints pictures of idyllic harmony, glossing over the events of the last ten days, not to mention the resignations of the president of Cinecittà Chiara Sbarigia and the general director of Cinema and audiovisual at the MIC Nicola Borrelli, two circumstances that had, so to speak, confirmed the suspicions that at the MIC the idylls were science fiction. However, she, Borgonzoni, undersecretary for the League who has held that role since the times of the yellow-green government and the red-yellow government, finding herself more at ease with the minister of the red-yellow times (Dario Franceschini) than with the one of the yellow-green times (Alberto Bonisoli), and then also landing in the Draghi government, today speaks in the plural when mentioning the bête noire of these days, the tax credit, shouting "the Villa Pamphili tragedy has brought to light what we have long been denouncing", and speaking of "new rules wanted by me and Minister Giuli, already applied, aimed at increasingly raising the bar of controls on the provision of funding to cinema". And never mind if there are those who see Sbarigia and Borrelli as the fallen heads as long as Borgonzoni remained, and never mind if there are those who speak of a direct or indirect intervention by Salvin to keep the undersecretary firmly at the top. The battle is a battle, that's the concept. And to think that, not many years ago, at the end of 2019, in the black autumn of post-Papeete and post-fall of the Conte I government Lega Nord discontent, the mother of all battles, for Borgonzoni, was not the tax credit, but the conquest of Emilia-Romagna, in view of the pre-Covid Regionals that led to victory for the second time by the dem Stefano Bonaccini, despite the effort of Salvini himself - too much in person, it was said, because the overflowing of the leader did not make the electoral sea sweet for the candidate, a candidate who boasted a Lega Nord mother, a Bonaccini father, a former partisan grandfather who was perhaps a friend of Renato Guttuso, experiences as a bartender in red Bologna and even redder loves that never chased away the very green adoration for Alberto da Giussano. Six years later, Borgonzoni is where he wanted to return and stay, that is, at the Mic, overseeing the tax credit reform and organizing other "listening tables" with the workers, despite the fact that during the Sangiuliano era the entire Mic had been subjected to accusations of procrastination that was harmful to the sector, denied by calling other tables. The fact is that the undersecretary took with a smile, they say at the Mic, the plural phrase uttered two days ago by Giuli, even after the resignation of Chiara Sbarigia, who was considered Borgonzoni's advisor: "Before our intervention, Cinecittà was like the Soviet Union", the minister said during the "Piazza Italia" demonstration, organized by FdI at the Eur: "Suffocating bureaucracy, slowness, Pnrr funds at a standstill. Today, thanks to an intelligent government and working side by side with the undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni, Cinecittà has been reborn and full of productions". And in short, the woman that the League strongly wants at the door of the audiovisual sector, has learned to navigate the world of cinéphiles that listened to her alarmed (if not indignant) when, then forty-three-year-old undersecretary in the Conte I government, Borgonzoni discussed films as an ordinary occasional multiplex visitor would do on the launch that, in the rain, among Chinese, French and Italian producers, took her back to the Lido of Venice after an event. Not for this reason did the undersecretary feel the burden of the newcomer complex, perhaps because of her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (thesis in Phenomenology of Styles) or her previous profession as an interior designer. Experiences not capable of supplanting the call of the League stage: already in the years in which Sergio Cofferati was mayor, in fact, Borgonzoni, in the center of Bologna where he lived for a long time, proposed putting a cap on the number of shops for foreigners. Having landed in Rome, instead, in the early yellow-green days, the future undersecretary animated the so-called “group of forty-year-olds” of the Northern League with Nicola Molteni and Stefano Candiani, dreaming of revolutions in the name of “we will give work to those who deserve it, those who are better and not those who are friends of the Democratic Party”. The common thread, who knows, that leads straight back to today, and to the days of passion over the tax credit.

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