Because the pulping of the 5 Stars also earthquake the Democratic Party
What will be the effects to the left of the rifts in the 5 Star Movement? Paola Sacchi's note
From the "League rib of the left" to the Five Stars they too conceived in the same way, always as a force to be hegemonized. Indeed, with the Movement the left had seen the undertaking much easier, since the 5s were not a real party structured like the Lega, first North, then national.
But the attempt by the Democratic Party and the whole left, in its red and pink shades, to hegemonize the 5s, as a reflection of an ancient "vice", is the other great loser on the desolate field of confusion and "rubble" of the clash Grillo-Conte. Now, instead of with an ally, Enrico Letta's Democratic Party will have to deal with what remains at the parliamentary level of two allies in fierce struggle with each other.
The Democratic Party, which had gradually become more and more radicalized also in order evidently to absorb a part of the Grillino electorate now, as Enrico Letta himself admitted, risks giving the center-right a decisive role for the first time in the election of the Head of the State. And if the election of Romano Prodi or other center-left exponents was in the dem objectives, now the enterprise seems really impossible. For the race to the Colle the center-right of both the government and the opposition becomes central.
As for the Draghi government, the role of main shareholders of Lega and Forza Italia is strengthened. An increasingly strong discontent winds through the dem ranks, since the new secretary, returned from Paris, "instead of working to give the Democratic Party the profile of the main guarantor of the Draghi government, he launched on divisive issues, radicalizing the conflict, relaunched the majority instead of going to work for the proportional ", so argued, worried, in a low voice, some members of the Democratic Party even before the" explosion "of the Five Stars.
But the plans of the Democratic Party at the table on the "home" of others, such as that of trying to break Forza Italia to go to a sort of Italian-style "Ursula" majority in view of the election of the Head of State, always seems to have prevailed over the project and the accounts to be done with oneself for the construction of one's own identity.
The five-star earthquake removes further centrality from a Democratic Party and a left accustomed to having the snitch of political games and levers of power. Appointment now for administrative elections that acquire even more a strong political significance not only for the left but also for the center-right.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-lo-spappolamento-dei-5-stelle-terremota-anche-il-pd/ on Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:33:57 +0000.