I’ll tell you about Schlein’s nightmares
All Schlein's pains in the Democratic Party and in his relationship with Conte. Damato's Scratches
In the disgrace of the defeat in Basilicata, where the center-right famously won by a landslide with the confirmation of the outgoing governor Vito Bardi, the secretary Elly Schlein consoled herself with the almost 14 percent of votes – 13.9 – achieved by her Democratic Party, almost doubling the ally but also competitor Giuseppe Conte's movement, which dropped from the usual two figures in that region to 7.7.
Through the Corriere della Sera, the damsel of the Nazarene sent the former prime minister a "message" defined as "unitary" in another interview, given to the manifesto: "No more mutual vetoes". With whom in fact you always end up losing with a centre-right also expanded to include Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi who are also litigants, brawlers and so on. A miracle, the latter, that only Schlein and Conte together could produce by giving them to Giorgia Meloni's coalition.
However, in this consolation of the secretary of the Nazarene there is something that doesn't work, that doesn't respond to reality. Something that makes Schlein more deluded than consoled. And with her the party that is behind her and from which, at this point, she must expect more and more problems, until the showdown that befell all her predecessors: from Walter Veltroni, the first secretary, to Pier Luigi Bersani, from Matteo Renzi to Nicola Zingaretti and Enrico Letta, skipping the more or less regents Dario Franceschini and Guglielmo Epifani, if I haven't forgotten anyone else.
The vetoes complained of by Schlein were not "reciprocal". They were all or mostly Conte's against the Democratic Party and its candidates: a Conte who, on the occasion of the Sardinian regional elections, said that he had not even had to make a phone call to the Nazarene to impose the aspiring Grillina on the presidency. Luckily for her, she managed to win thanks to the weakness of the candidate opposed by Meloni herself, despite Matteo Salvini's resistance in favor of the outgoing governor. Which in the end was given the final blow by the usual judiciary.
Finally, the consolation of the "5 Meteor Movement" in the ItaliaOggi cartoon also seems illusory to me, perhaps Schlein liked it when thinking about the size to which Giuseppe Conte's party has been reduced in Basilicata, not unlike the Sardinian ones, despite being so generously rewarded by the Democratic Party .
At a national level – unfortunately for Schlein, and her party friends, or comrades, as many call each other while holding tightly in their hands the card printed with the photograph of Enrico Berlinguer's eyes – that devil of Conte still manages to stay on double digits. A SWG survey freshly produced for the 7 news program gives the Pd at 20 percent, with a gain of 0.6 in just seven days, between 15 and 22 April, but the movement of the former Grillino prime minister at 15, 9, practically separated by only four points. A nightmare, I would say, more than a consolation.
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-gli-incubi-di-schlein/ on Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:15:59 +0000.