Gentiloni in Schlein’s place in the Democratic Party?
Sensational background today from Corriere della Sera on the future of the Democratic Party between Schlein and Gentiloni. Damato's Scratches
He is leaving us – I fear – the almost centenary Giorgio Napolitano, the last president emeritus of the Republic registered, so to speak, of the Senate after the disappearances of his predecessors Francesco Cossiga, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, in the order in which they preceded him to the Quirinale. Disappearing with him is a very proven politician who mixed towards us journalists – I don't think I'm revealing any sensational facts, much less obscenity – a mixture of respect, at times even admiration but also distrust, like another who passed before him at Quirinale and equally proven in his long political militancy: Sandro Pertini. Who once said affectionately to my wife, at a dinner, that journalists could never be trusted because they were incapable of keeping a secret. Whether it was true or presumed, Napolitano said for his part, often concluding the reading of an article that surprised him with this question: "Is it true?", exactly.
Grappling with his last and very natural struggle, no longer helped in his breathing but with his heart still beating, Napolitano was able to save himself from hearing from his wife, who often used to read him the newspapers since her husband's eyesight had worsened, a background story offered to us today by Corriere della Sera on Paolo Gentiloni, former Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister, now European Commissioner for Economic Affairs in Brussels on behalf of the Union, for goodness' sake, but also of Italy which at the time designated him without thereby taking away from him the passport.
WILL GENTILONI REPLACE SCHLEIN IN THE PD?
Under the title "The Democratic Party, Gentiloni and the future role" the most widespread Italian newspaper informs that, although he says he is busy as European commissioner "until November 2024", when the carousel in Brussels could change under the aegis of a renewed Parliament, Gentiloni "is the idea for the post-Schlein" at the top of the Democratic Party. Which – it may be said incidentally – even the former secretary Nicola Zingaretti believes that he is destined not to leave the polls next year, in the European vote, above 17 percent. Therefore risking being overtaken by the grillini of that Count indicated by Zingaretti himself still at the Nazarene as the largest, strongest and yet another "point of reference for the progressives" in Italy, above and below his Volturara Appula.
THE ATTACKS OF THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
Therefore, if Meloni is "in Caporetto", as Piero Sansonetti describes her today in Unità , Schlein would be even worse off and Gentiloni could become – again in the words of Corriere della Sera – "the putty to glue all the pieces", even of the left. Vast programme. And to think that only a few days ago Gentiloni himself, accused by Meloni, Salvini and others of the government and the majority of not taking enough care of his Italy, as other commissioners do for their respective countries, appeared offended. He is perhaps too concerned with it, but in a completely different sense, he is more interested in the opposition than in the government.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/gentiloni-schlein-pd/ on Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:38:17 +0000.