Pd, who is counting on Conte’s takeover bid?
Incredible but true: Giuseppe Conte has demanded the resignation of Enrico Letta from the Democratic Party. And the dem Bettini… Damato's Scratches
In that Enrico Letta who "retires" and Giuseppe Conte who "widens" in the headline of the Fatto Quotidiano on the effects of the electoral results, evidently considered more important on the opposition front than on the center-right government, there is the whole paradox of the political situation. Which seems to have suddenly gone back 13 years, when Beppe Grillo tried to join the Pd in the summer by joining the Sardinian section of Arzachena to even climb the secretariat abandoned by a Walter Veltroni too besieged by the usual currents.
The Democratic Party, then run by Dario Franceschini awaiting a congress that would be won by Pier Luigi Bersani, strongly rejected the Genoese comedian. Who reacted by improvising his 5 Star Movement, bringing him to Parliament four years later, humiliating Bersani in an attempt to form a "minority and fighting" government with the help of the Grillini and finally winning the subsequent elections, in 2018.
It seems incredible, but history somehow repeats itself with the substantial takeover bid just launched by Conte on the Pd demanding the resignation of Enrico Letta, obtaining it and putting himself at the head of an opposition "not hard but very hard", waiting to judge the " new leadership group ”of the Nazarene and to decide – practically – whether to condition it from the outside or vaporize it. And all this, again by Conte, with a stunned Grillo who certainly did not consider him capable of that much, at the head of a movement that came out of the polls more than halved compared to the previous elections., Having lost almost six million votes along the way. And a Democratic Party that, although shabby, for heaven's sake, is placed better than the pentastellati.
The incomparable Goffredo Bettini, who from within the Democratic Party had already promoted Conte last year to "the highest point of reference" for progressives, warned in an interview, naturally at Fatto Quotidiano , "editorial groups and salons" not expect to choose their new secretary for them. Could perhaps be enough and the Count himself advances.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giuseppe-conte-dimissioni-enrico-letta-pd/ on Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:21:07 +0000.