Fallen Conte, Zingaretti hunted: Pd between a losing competition and the renunciation of the majority vocation
It was all too easy to predict, even for someone like myself isolated in his Bolognese study, that the aim pursued by the "madman of the day", Renzi, went far beyond the eviction of the people's lawyer from Palazzo Chigi. Of course, quite sure that Mattarella would not have dissolved Parliament – for a political intuition that some other leader, intent on stirring the bugbear of "everyone at home", should envy him – Renzi wanted above all to prevent Conte from strengthening himself as the sole referent of a 5 Star-Pd alliance, which would have cut him out, squeezed between a compact center-left and center-right. But there was more: to obtain, by killing Conte, the weakening of a peaceable Zingaretti, who, in the aftermath of the Renzian coup, boasted of having made it fail, for having managed to keep together that alliance assumed as the only and only alternative, albeit at the cost of watering down the programmatic identity of a party with a reiterated "majority vocation".
It was not difficult to imagine that Conte, bitten by the tarantula of power, would not return to the sweaty cards: having lost the office of President of the Council of Ministers, he would no longer be able to exercise the role of mediator between 5 Stars and the Democratic Party, but he would have found himself open only the point of reference of the 5 Stars, making them competitive with respect to the Democratic Party. The constitution of the Draghi Government, with an almost general "let's love each other", accelerated the internal crisis of the 5 Stars: Conte's call back into service – by a Grillo who turned into an astronaut – as a "man alone in command" , with a completely predictable consequence, the massive drift in favor of the 5 Stars of the Dem electoral base, as fully confirmed by the poll on the La7 news on Monday evening.
Conte took time to manage the definitive transition from movement to party, where it is clear the abandonment of the original anti-institutional radicalism, with his residual prophet Di Battista, but not the landing point, regardless of the parliamentary conversion , that is, of the egalitarian and environmentalist left or of the moderate and liberal center. Pending the squaring of the circle delegated to Conte, Zingaretti is the object of a real assault, cultivating the not unfounded but belated suspicion that Renzi himself is the inspiration; who, while saying he wants to be a point of attraction in the center, always cultivates a desire for revenge, to which the dream of being recalled by the fury of the apparatus, if not of the people, to save a Pd in the process of evaporation is not extraneous.
That Zingaretti feels hunted is confirmed by his attempt to seek refuge in the statute of the party, having been elected with the primary in 2019, it would not be possible to question him before the next primary of 2023. Only that – as well exemplifies the contemporary evolution dei 5 Stelle – the Statute is the last defense of the status quo , destined to be overwhelmed by the acceleration of politics, especially if it finds expression in significant electoral deadlines. And the administrative ones of large cities are upon us, even if they can be postponed to autumn, where, to take for granted the revival of the alliance, but with the 5 Stars strengthened by a revived Count, it will be necessary to see which choices of the candidates will have to swallow Zingaretti and what electoral percentages he can bring home. And this on the eve of that election of the new President of the Republic who, according to Zingaretti himself, had constituted one of the two fundamental reasons for launching that kind of unnatural creature constituted by Count 2: to avoid a consultation that would have opened the doors to a populist and sovereign right; install a cross-eyed President of the Republic in favor of the left, like all his recent predecessors.
It will not be enough to emphatically affirm that you are pro-European, given that the “Ursula” Commission has completely failed in what was supposed to be an enterprise coordinated by it, complete with a bombastic joint inauguration, with a first injection on 27 December 2020. It has been said that this coordination – with a single central to take charge of the conclusion of supply contracts with Big Pharma – would have protected the smaller countries, but these have begun to call themselves out, turning elsewhere (Hungary, Austria and perhaps even Denmark). Nor will it be enough to solemnly claim to be Atlantic, equal to the US, without having a European military force, so as to be completely dependent on the mythical "sixth fleet" for the regional wars that broke out in our backyard.
Once the "resist, resist, resist" tactic has been exhausted without luck, once the Democratic Party has been forced to participate in the sacred union imposed by Mattarella, the question of strategy remains completely open, which certainly cannot be resolved in the mere terms of a democratic alliance. , celebrated in a self-referential form. If, yesterday, the identity challenge was all in favor of the Democratic Party compared to a 5-star still confined to half a ford, tomorrow, with a Count provided with a blank proxy, it will no longer be, with the risk that the Democratic Party will be forced to adapt its identity in a residual function with respect to that adopted by the 5 Stars. Whether the latter is of moderate left or moderate center, however, it will force the Democratic Party to overlap in the same area or to move even further to the left, with the alternative of making a losing competition or giving up the majority vocation.
Good morning Pd, it is now late in the morning.
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