Because the third term is shaking the Democratic Party
Not only in the center-right but also in the Democratic Party there is discussion about the third mandate for the presidents of the regions. Bonaccini-Schlein tensions. Damato's point published in the newspaper Libero
No. This game of the third term, let's call it that, thinking now of the presidents of the regions and then of the mayors, was not played badly by Matteo Salvini. Or as bad as it appears from the own goal that wanted to remedy the situation in the Senate commission by having the opposition and its own allies vote and reject the proposal to unblock the two mandates.
Even without finding the saint in heaven who blinded the opponents on the issue of the bridge over the Strait of Messina by directing them towards a judicial battle, once the political one was lost, Salvini solved the problem – I repeat – of the third mandate by himself by astutely investing more in the weaknesses others than on one's own strength. Or on the interest, which they rightly contest against him, of wanting to have his friend and party colleague Luca Zaia confirmed as governor of the Veneto in his position, so as not to then find him in the way as a competitor at the helm of the Northern League.
A moment after having received the shrugs of the allies for his apparent own goal in the competent Senate commission, determined or resigned, according to taste, to face the second half of the match in the chamber, possibly after the European elections in June, in a clearer picture of the balance of power in the government coalition, Salvini was able to enjoy the revolt that exploded in the Democratic Party against Schlein. At which for the first time, if I remember correctly, the former competitor and now president of the Democratic Party Stefano Bonaccini, governor of Emilia Romagna certainly no stranger to the hypothesis of a third mandate, accused the secretary Elly Schlein of failing to respect of commitments evidently made not in the sense of a vote against. Which, moreover, once again linked Schlein herself to Giuseppe Conte. Who from Beppe Grillo, guarantor and at the same time paid consultant, inherited a Movement where the third mandate is experienced in many aspects, personal and political, as a tragedy. A monster to be afraid of day and night.
When the match resumes, already in the Senate chamber or in the training sessions that precede it, Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, or vice versa, as you prefer, may find themselves in better conditions than Schlein and Bonaccini. The rebalancing of local power relations, at various administrative levels, is much more difficult and risky in the Democratic Party than in the center-right in general, or among some of its components in particular.
Let's not forget that it was Massimo D'Alema in the PDS-former PCI who warned and feared the overwhelming weight of the administrators, dismissing the mayors as "caciques". Compared to which the governors, or whatever they prefer to call them the constitutional wigs, have become even more cumbersome. And also rude, as the president of Campania Vincenzo De Luca demonstrates every time he speaks, it doesn't matter whether about adversaries or allies. Meloni is still waiting for an apology for the "asshole" not even whispered in the corridors of the Chamber by De Luca, who came to Rome to lead the revolt against differentiated regional autonomies. Which, moreover, were established by the left itself with a constitutional reform approved at the time in the vain illusion of averting the return of Silvio Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi to the alliance interrupted at the end of 1994 at the urging of the then head of state Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Who greeted Bossi at the Quirinale, every time he passed through the door, like a liberator.
I understand the fear expressed here by Daniele Capezzone of some misunderstanding in the Sardinian votes of what happened in the Senate commission on the third mandate, with a split government coalition and an apparently united opposition. But I think I know the Sardinian voters of my land, after that of birth and professional adoption, well enough not to wrap my head around it before it's broken. No. This time, I repeat, Salvini played his game well.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-il-terzo-mandato-sta-squassando-il-pd/ on Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:36:33 +0000.