Il Foglio pampers Schlein’s Pd too much?
Are we really sure – as Giuliano Ferrara del Foglio writes – that there is a sharing of anti-Russian intentions by Schlein's Pd with the Meloni government? Damato's Scratches
All taken to "chat" – Giuliano Ferrara recently protested in his Foglio – "about the gaudy Santanchè case", to which was added the forced indictment of the Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro for disclosure of official secrecy denied by his minister Carlo Nordio , the greater and more comfortable reality of Italian politics would have escaped us.
There will also be in government – explained the founder of Il Foglio – a right-centre coalition and no longer a centre-right, there will also be an "imperfect bipolarity", of which the second pole, the opposition, lives in a state of confusion greater and worse than the other, but thanks to the international problems that hang over us with the war in Ukraine we would have the advantage – a huge advantage – of living in the shadow of a strong “majority against Putin”. Which includes "Meloni and the Democratic Party", even if both "don't dare say so", with the addition of a presumably more credible or calm Forza Italia, despite appearances, after the death of Silvio Berlusconi. Who, although ignored this time by Ferrara, on the war in Ukraine and Putin's responsibilities did not quite have the same ideas that Meloni matured as she climbed Palazzo Chigi already from the opposition.
THE CONCESSIONS TO THE PD OF SCHLEIN DEL FOGLIO DI FERRARA
But in addition to ignoring – this time, I repeat – the late former Prime Minister, in whose first government he was the minister for relations with Parliament, Ferrara has generously granted the "Elly Schlein's Pd" – he wrote – a practically unlimited continuity compared to Enrico Letta's Democratic Party. For which on the eve of the last political elections Giulianone announced with frankness and pride that he had decided to vote, practically advising his readers to vote for him too, returning as that Pd was from participation in a government chaired by Maro Draghi. Of which the photo with the French president and the German chancellor on a rail journey in solidarity towards the Ukraine invaded by the Russians has remained memorable.
SCHLEIN AND UKRAINE
Yes, I know very well that Schlein, barring some dissidence that exploded in her parliamentary groups in Rome and Strasbourg, has not or has not yet spoken out against the continuation of Italian military aid to Ukraine, even at the cost of disappointing that Giuseppe Conte who he chases almost everywhere, between squares, bars and conferences, hoping sooner or later to restore the alliance relations with the grillini interrupted by his predecessor at the Nazarene after the Conte himself had decided to pull the plug on Draghi. Who reacted by preferring early elections with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to any attempt at even a short survival at least apparently claimed by the force supporters who, in retaliation against his unavailability, also dismantled the socket from which Conte had pulled the plug.
I may be mistaken in my pessimism of reason, or of suspicion, opposed to the Gramscian optimism of Giuliano Ferrara, never like this time, but Schlein's relationship with anti-Putin's firmness seems to me substantially similar to that always assumed by her when faced with recourse to the waste-to-energy plant in the Rome submerged in waste decided by the Piddino mayor of the capital Roberto Gualtieri when Enrico Letta was still in the Nazarene. And at Palazzo Chigi the aforementioned Draghi, who had laid the foundations for it in a desired and passed regulation despite Conte's protests and threats, who made it a reason even greater than that of military aid to Ukraine to start or proceed more expeditiously on the road to the crisis.
It is an "inherited" decision, Schlein said of the waste-to-energy plant in Rome, almost apologizing to Conte. A bit like – I repeat – the decision to give military aid to Ukraine, even at the cost of prolonging a painful war like all wars that that indomitable people – far from "Nazified", as Putin claims – prides itself on facing risking only the his own life, without compromising that of the peoples and governments that help him.
A "shadow majority against Putin" such as the one boasted by Ferrara in the Foglio, and opposed to the "imperfect bipolarity" to be exported to Europe around which political reporting would lose its time, it seems to me rather – due to the mists that have arrived or increased in Pd with the election of Schlein as secretary – a shadow of the majority. It is a bit like the dilemma that the announcement of the formation of a shadow government now also poses in England, where the formula or the institute was born. Which in fact turns out to be only the shadow of a government. And with shadows with a perverse charm, you never go very far.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-foglio-partito-democratico-elly-schlein/ on Sat, 15 Jul 2023 05:14:58 +0000.