We're returning from a long weekend, on the cusp of social obligations and Christmas shopping, and today you'll hear that polls indicate PP voters value the president of Madrid, Díaz Ayuso, more than the party president, Núñez Feijóo. But while daily life dictates their immediate agenda, the underlying current is very strong, so strong that it's already shaping the immediate agenda. We are witnessing a changing of the guard. Just read the news story that opens our front page today:

Andrea Rizzi (Rome, 1975) is a journalist and global affairs correspondent forThe Country and author of The age of revenge (Anagrama), an essay that manages, in just over 150 pages, to conduct an exhaustive analysis of geopolitical transformations, the structural problems of our societies, and the future scenarios they may entail.

The Italian Parliament has passed into law a decree promoted by Giorgia Meloni's government that modifies the process for recognizing Italian citizenship. The Tajani decree—named after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani— limits the blood vessels (right of blood) to two generations of foreigners with Italian ancestry; that is, from now on only those who have parents or grandparents born in Italy will be able to receive a passport. Until last week, the legal principle of blood vessels included the descendants of anyone born in Italy after 1861, the date of the unification process. The news has fallen like a bucket of cold water in Argentina, where some 25 million people—more than half the population—have Italian surnames, and where it is estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 applications for citizenship will now be discarded or, at least, put on hold.