All about the alliance-jumble built by the Democratic Party
Center-right and center-left grappling with electoral programs and candidacies. Paola Sacchi's note
Alliance hodgepodge in the center-left. With the aim of preventing "the government of the right, after the Draghi government", says the secretary of the Democratic Party.
Calenda's declaration has a demonizing flavor for the center-right, moreover with a narrative corresponding to reality: "Choice of field between Europe and Italy allied with Putin and Orban".
It is the political essence of the agreement found in extremis between Enrico Letta and Action by Carlo Calenda.
Front hodgepodge with the usual left-wing scheme of alliance against more than for.
This time, in the anti-center-right front we go from the radical left to former Azzurri ministers, such as Maria Stella Gelmini and Mara Carfagna.
The agreement is reached on the fact that "divisive personalities" will not go to single-member colleges.
70 percent of the colleges in the Democratic Party, 30 percent in Action and + Europe by Emma Bonino and Benedetto Della Vedova.
For now, the program reads points such as "strong anchoring to Europe, minimum wage, tax wedge cut".
While Luigi Di Maio presents his new party "Civic Commitment" together with Bruno Tabacci.
Matteo Renzi: “As a gift to the right, Iv now has the courage to go alone”.
Hard comment by Giorgia Meloni: “The Pd-Action alliance sheds light on the forces in the field. The usual left will compete with the center-right and FdI. The Democratic Party, the extreme left and Action, the rib of the Democratic Party chaired by the MP elected to the Democratic Party, Carlo Calenda. Ends the story of Action moderate party, an alternative to the left all taxes, welfare and enemy of the productive class ”.
Antonio Tajani (number two of Silvio Berlusconi) is tranchant: “Calenda fifth column of the Democratic Party”.
After all, the reckless operation Letta had said was to bring together "all souls from those of the most left to liberal, reformers".
And the center? In reality, the "center" understood as liberal and anti-tax policies has long since ended up in Forza Italia and in the Lega itself, a post-ideological, pragmatic party of the entrepreneurial middle classes but also of workers.
Despite the accusations, the center-right all together with Giorgia Meloni's FdI has always voted yes to sending weapons to Ukraine, unlike, for example, Fratoianni, although the League then insisted on the need to open a peace negotiation, but "always on the side of the West", Matteo Salvini remarked in recent days.
The permanent table for the center-right government program kicks off yesterday. It starts with the "total sharing" of FdI, Lega, FI on three points: Italy's commitment to support Ukraine, the constitutional reform to transform Italy into a presidential Republic and the approval of the differentiated autonomy of Regions. The technical discussion on the colleges, on the other hand, should resume today with a meeting between managers, excluding the leaders.
During the meeting of about two hours, "satisfaction with the unitary climate encountered" was recorded – reads the joint note -. He continues: "The coalition that shares values, ideas and identity battles has placed at the center of its political agenda the emergencies affecting the Italian economy, such as inflation, the international crisis at the gates of Italy, the energy crisis, rising prices the costs of raw materials, and the measures to be implemented immediately ". "Total sharing" was expressed – it is specified – in "reaffirming full compliance with Italy's international commitments in relation to the war in Ukraine, presidential reform, autonomy".
The new meeting of the center-right will be above all technical and aimed at defining the details of the agreement reached last week by the party leaders on the subdivision of candidates into the single-member constituencies envisaged by the Rosatellum. The agreement provides for 98 colleges in FdI, 70 in the Lega, 42 in Forza Italia and 11 in Noi with Italy and Coraggio Italia. FdI should 'take charge' of the latter, while Lega and FI should divide the colleges destined for the UDC, but this last piece has not yet been put down in black and white. “On the left they argue over alliances but agree to raise taxes and introduce property. The center-right, on the other hand, wants a fairer and lighter tax, will defend the savings of the Italians at all costs ”, Licia Ronzulli, vice president of the Forza Italia group in the Senate, commented last night. And Antonio Tajani, vice president of FI: “We want to lower taxes, Letta instead wants assets. A sad spectacle from the left ”.
Salvini: "" While an indecent spectacle comes from the left, we propose concrete things to the Italians and we have started the program table: no to the assets of the Democratic Party, Cime Lega in the meantime we ask for the cut of the VAT on foodstuffs, the scrapping of the tax bills ".
In the proposals then: "Extension of the flat tax to all workers, definitive stop to the Fornero law with the launch of quota 41 and illegal immigration control, the League at the Interior Ministry has shown that it can be done".
The Northern League leader then on Mps: "Closures and layoffs: the European Commission's plan is a further blow to Monte dei Paschi after the tragic mistakes of the Democratic Party".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/centrodestra-centrosinistra-programmi-governo/ on Tue, 02 Aug 2022 05:13:27 +0000.