All the contradictions of the colorful war machine of the Democratic Party
Here are the latest news from the center-left and the center-right. Paola Sacchi's note
From the former yellow by Luigi Di Maio, combined with the sprinkle of centrist white by Bruno Tabacci, to the deep red by Nicola Fratoianni, with the radical environmentalism of Angelo Bonelli, up to, if we also understand the agreement with Carlo Calenda, to the former pale blue of the ministers Maria Stella Gelmini and Mara Carfagna who left Forza Italia.
Here is Enrico Letta's colorful war machine of the Democratic Party. That with Fratoianni and Bonelli only makes "an electoral agreement, not a government agreement", assigning them, together with the civic commitment of Di Maio and Tabacci, 20 percent of the single-member constituencies of the Democratic Party.
Letta also embarks on the electoral left in order to stop "the right, prevent Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni from overturning the Constitution in the event of victory". But the whole colorful war machine, including the programmatic agreement with Calenda, is explicitly an alliance against, which follows the almost thirty-year pattern inaugurated with the first machine, the joyful one of Achille Occhetto, routed by Silvio Berlusconi.
An a priori approach, declared delegitimization of the political opponent, treated each time as the enemy and against which the left launches what Letta himself calls "alarm".
With Fratoianni and Bonelli it will also be just an electoral agreement, but it is clear that the contradictions are destined to explode sooner or later. How to reconcile the program signed with Calenda to lower taxes with the opposite line not only of Fratoianni but also of Roberto Speranza of Article One? How can we reconcile the Western positioning, the attacks on the "right" defined by Calenda himself as "Orbanian and pro-Persian" with Fratoianni who has always spoken out against sending weapons to Ukraine?
Matteo Renzi immediately puts his finger in the sore and attacks the Democratic Party: "How can you promise a reduction in taxes if Letta then first proposes the assets?". So confirmed: Renzi will race alone with his Iv for that third pole to which he had called Calenda, who will now have to curb the discomfort of his jagged world of Action where the former FI ministers are also. Last night there was talk of a certain agitation around Calenda.
Hard thrust of the president of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni: “A bandwagon. An agreement without any common vision is not an agreement to govern a nation for 5 years. 'To save the Constitution' they say, it seems to me only to secure the seats. Don't be fooled ”. Meloni, in an interview with the US channel Fox , says that she could be the "first female premier" in Italy.
Sferzante Salvini: "I am without shame, agreement only to divide the seats". As claimed also by the Northern League members Claudio Borghi, Alberto Bagnai, Stefano Candiani who denounces that this agreement "creates a situation of chaos". Salvini, in fact, rejects the same Latvian method: "This shows that he does not want to respect the people who, on the other hand, will be the only ones to decide". And Giorgio Mulè with Licia Ronzulli (FI): "Agreement only to divide the chairs, the agreement reveals all the desperation of Letta".
The center-right prefers to talk about the program he is perfecting in 15 points, entitled " Italy tomorrow ". Berlusconi proposes a flat tax for everyone at 23 per cent, Salvini observes that in the meantime, "workers' bonuses, overtime, salary increases could immediately be de-taxed". Opposite visions are those between a compact center-right and a center-left which, however, also has opposites within itself. Just to beat "the right", without ever mentioning the word center.
The Democratic Party should appear in 58 percent of single-member constituencies, 24 percent should go to Calenda and + Europe, 14 to the Greens and Italian Left, 4 percent to Di Maio and Tabacci's civic commitment. Will Calenda agree that until last night he was silent and the day before yesterday bombed via Twitter the possible agreement, later reached by the Democratic Party, also with Fratoianni and Bonelli?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-contraddizioni-della-variopinta-macchina-di-guerra-del-pd/ on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 06:04:13 +0000.