I’ll tell you about Enrico Letta’s first flops in the Pd
Enrico Letta's first lost bets as secretary of the Democratic Party are at least two. The Scratches of Damato
Two months have not yet passed since his election as secretary of the Democratic Party, last March 14, hastily recalled from his academic "exile" in Paris to replace Nicola Zingaretti, red with shame declared for the chair to which he had reduced the party, and Enrico Letta already appears more worn out than his predecessor. He lost both bets made with some imprudence on his return from France.
The first bet was that against Matteo Salvini, proposing to contest him up to provoking his exit from the emergency majority made by Mario Draghi, on the impulse of Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale, after the self-sinking of the second government of Giuseppe Conte : other than the conspiracy lamented by the professor's nostalgics.
In his anti-law obsession, Letta has come to be more realistic than the king on the objectively unpopular terrain of defending a curfew that Draghi was the first to warn could change even shortly, as is about to happen.
I find particularly effective the review of the verbal clashes between Letta and Salvini that Mattia Feltri offered today to the readers of the Stampa , and of the XIX Century , to conclude with a "fantastic demonstration of how to want to stand out at all costs, it ends up not you can see the differences ", confusing the clothes of the Democratic Party secretary for sweatshirts, generally more sober and less militaristic or gymnastic than those of the" captain "of the League.
Letta's other bet, even more ruinous than the first, is that of Giuseppe Conte's ability to re-establish the 5 Star Movement on a personal assignment by Beppe Grillo, but at least to restore some order and moderation. in that mess – excuse the term – that it has become, worsening after the family difficulties of the "guarantor", "elevated" and so on.
The latest rip-off, let's call it that, Conte gave it to Letta not supporting but relaunching Virginia Raggi's re-nomination as mayor of Rome for the autumn elections. Yet the secretary of the Democratic Party had gone so far as to practically offer the presidency of the Lazio region to the grillini in exchange for the passage of the current president Zingaretti to the Capitol, however, imprudently assuming the consent of the voters for granted.
The setback inflicted by Conte on Letta on the Capitoline steps, and destined to have repercussions in the other cities where the vote will take place in the autumn and the secretary of the Democratic Party was thinking of making agreements with the grillini, emboldened the Raggi to such an extent as to make her say in an interview today to the Press who will be, verbatim, "the candidate of all, including those who vote for Pd". And he should instead vote for Letta's basically makeshift candidate, who is the former Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri, already threatened in his area, let's call it that, by the very active Carlo Calenda.
If this is not a debacle of Enrico Letta, we are very close, objectively. And to make his hair stand on end, he doesn't even need to go back to bothering that impertinent Matteo Renzi to invite him to "stay calm", as he did at the end of 2013, preparing to undermine him from Palazzo Chigi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-i-primi-flop-di-enrico-letta-nel-pd/ on Tue, 11 May 2021 05:41:21 +0000.