I’ll tell you about the crisp air in the center-left and center-right
The latest news in the center-left and in the center-right as seen by Francesco Damato
The primaries of the Democratic Party for the candidates for mayors of Rome and Bologna did not spoil the secretary Enrico Letta the fan party for Italy's sprint in the round of 16 of the European football championships, also winning the match with Wales, after those with the Turkey and Switzerland. He himself had admitted, after the flop of the primary in Turin, to risk "the neck bone" in Rome and Bologna, where they went to vote in the gazebos, respectively, despite some disputes, 45 thousand and 25 thousand participants of that that the secretary of the Democratic Party called "the center-left people". That he would have shown that he "was there" and, basically, that he recognized himself in his leadership.
It is unlikely, also given that both in Rome and in Bologna there was no agreement on a common candidate for mayor, that Letta could really speak with conviction of the “center-left people” including the 5 Star Movement. With whom, however, he continues to pursue an agreement in other parts of Italy and above all at a national level. It is a movement on whose evolution, under the leadership of Giuseppe Conte but with an unchanged "guarantee", which is that of Beppe Grillo, the secretary of the Democratic Party has bet a lot, risking his neck even more than in the municipal primaries of substantial ratification of his choices for Roberto Gualtieri in the Campidoglio and Matteo Lepore in the city of the two towers.
In the belief that there has been a movement with which to be able to share the country's government also in the next legislature, Enrico Letta will have found – I assume – the pessimism of a 24-karat liberal like Antonio Martino exaggerated. Who today in an interview with Libero defined that of the 5 Stars "the invention of a poorly talented but very clever Genoese hunter, who created this thing based on contempt for everyone and for everything, devoid of any ideological consistency … A disgusting phenomenon for our country ". He also sent to the Farnesina, where Martino was foreign minister with the center-right, like his father before him with the Pli allied to the DC, "the bibitaro del San Paolo" more suited to "his first profession, in which speaking Neapolitan was more than sufficient to carry out the functions that belonged to him ". This is of course Luigi Di Maio.
According to Martino, the pasta of the League turned out to be quite different, also born amid the sneers and insults of the founder Umberto Bossi, but evolved to the point, by dint of governing with Berlusconi, to be well suited to the single party of the center-right that Berlusconi himself has returned to propose in the perspective of the political elections of 2023, denying that he is encouraged by his children to get rid of Forza Italia. The idea of a single party of the center-right, after all, according to what Martino himself reported as a witness, came to Berlusconi as early as 1997, speaking with the then Spanish Prime Minister Josè Maria Aznar. And now that the League is that of the former Minister of the Interior, what Il Messaggero announced in a title could well have occurred, referring to a meeting that just took place in Arcore between the two with these words attributed to the landlord: " You are my heir ".
Of course, there is resistance on the path so insistently indicated by the former Prime Minister, convinced that he can import the Republican Party of the United States into Italy, hopefully not in the Trumpian style, but it is a bet – at a guess – less futuristic than that made by Enrico Letta on a really new 5 Star MoVement, electorally slimmer but more reliable.
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-laria-frizzantina-nel-centrosinistra-e-nel-centrodestra/ on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:10:49 +0000.