Ceccanti and the great unfinished of the Democratic Party
Facts, names and controversy on the lists of the Democratic Party. Paola Sacchi's note
Nicola Fratoianni in Pisa in the college where Stefano Ceccanti was elected. The radical left of the SI leader, who also voted no to the enlargement of NATO to Sweden and Finland, undermines the Catholic reformism of the constitutionalist dem, exponent of "Equal Freedom". It was also the association of the "best" former PCI Emanuele Macaluso. We are not at the Bologna congress in the early 1990s, where the current of those who in the PCI and substitutes, then Achille Occhetto's PDS, were heavily marginalized. And dismissed, in private conversations, with a touch of contempt like the group of "friends of Bettino Craxi" (Macaluso was actually a friend of Rino Formica, Gerardo Chiaromonte instead was closer to the leader of the PSI). But we are in the bunker of Enrico Letta's Pd lists.
Between then and now, however, the data seems constant: reformism, the most advanced points of the attempts made in this direction, in the context of a post-communist or post-left DC culture, as in the case of Ceccanti, remains the great unfinished Pd. Party that has bypassed the liberal-socialist culture by never becoming social democratic, never making a Bad Godesberg, thinking of finding an identity in the US dem model, from which it took its name. And above all, never dealing with the judicial liquidation of Craxi's PSI.
Ceccanti, the pd constitutionalist, with refined readings and informal ways, empathetic even with political opponents, a discreet and precious weaver for his party in the days leading up to the re-election of Sergio Mattarella, comes from the reforming Catholic culture of Roberto Ruffilli, the constitutionalist , Ciriaco De Mita's adviser for institutional reforms, killed by the Red Brigades. But guaranteeism has always united him to the reformist culture closest to the PSI. Ceccanti voted three Yes in the referendum on justice, going to the merit of central issues, such as the separation of functions, without paying attention in an ideological way to the fact that the main promoter of the consultation was the League of the much demonized leftist Matteo Salvini, together with the Radicals .
This obviously does not mean that Salvini is not a political opponent for Ceccanti. But the approach was precisely that of the merit of the reforms on which we can also converge with the adversary and not with the enemy. Ceccanti, although at the same time in favor of the Cartabia reform, was followed in his three Yes by a small group of other exponents of "Equal Freedom" such as Enza Bruno Bossio and Enrico Morando. The line of the Democratic Party was officially to vote No, while leaving freedom to vote, but in reality it resulted in abstention. There were also the Yes of the mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori and of the economist Tommaso Nannicini, whose candidacy remained in doubt until night. Both Gori and Nannicini were personally in Hammamet on the occasion of the initiatives for the twentieth anniversary of Craxi's death organized by Forza Italia senator Stefania Craxi and by the president of the Foundation named after the socialist statesman Margherita Boniver. The Democratic Party, unlike the League, did not send an official delegation. Paradoxes of history.
Until now that gives us the "photo" of the head of the deep red left in Pisa in place of the Catholic reformist Ceccanti. Eloquent image of a left left in the middle of the ford. The identity of which, more than in the programs, is "in the clash" with the enemy, as Silvio Berlusconi says in an interview with "Libero" yesterday.
Ceccanti is given at night as recovered in fourth place in the proportional in Florence, Pisa. But the constitutionalist himself tweeted around midnight: "I read with amazement, but the news is devoid of any foundation, as Letta well knows, tomorrow (today ed) I will explain in detail". The curtain of the mid-August night falls on the Nazarene bunker.
Among the novelties of the lists: the microbiologist Andrea Crisanti , famous TV face of the days of the lockdown for Covid. Few seats, many personalities to be nominated, after the cut of the parliamentarians that will start the next legislature. Letta says she "has a great weight on the heart". The weight is on the Democratic Party and a left that seem to have remained in the bunker of failed reformism.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ceccanti-e-la-grande-incompiuta-del-pd/ on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 04:37:48 +0000.