Rama and Scholz displace Schlein
Joys and sorrows for Elly Schlein. Damato's Scratches
Quite young at 38 years old, almost 10 years younger than Giorgia Meloni who entered politics much earlier than her and therefore necessarily better equipped, Elly Schlein perhaps committed due to inexperience in the crowded Roman Piazza del Popolo last Saturday a mistake that those old scoundrels of his party hidden in the backstage would perhaps have been spared, if only for superstitious reasons. He has explicitly, proudly but also imprudently opened "a new phase" of his secretariat which has not yet even completed the first year celebrated by Meloni at Palazzo Chigi.
SCHLEIN'S AMBITION
Heads of government or party – both in the first and second Republic which we have become accustomed to talking about even with the Constitution unchanged – having ventured into second phases of their adventures have generally ended up bringing closer rather than delaying their epilogue. But naturally there is no rule that does not have its exception, so Schlein could be the first to dispel this legend and to carry out in full the four-year congressional mandate which she has already opposed to those who have proposed its interruption with the results of the European elections in June 2024, if they are not positive for the Democratic Party which currently stands at around 18 percent of the votes. Hot on the heels of Giuseppe Conte's 5 Star Movement at 17, which therefore competes with him for primacy in the construction of the "alternative" to the Melonian centre-right, or right-centre, physically indicated by Schlein herself in the Roman square. At which she showed up – who knows why – in Lenten purple instead of the bright red chosen two days earlier on television to be hosted by Bruno Vespa. And in that square there was also Conte – someone who "speaks a lot and understands little", in the words of Beppe Grillo – not above the stage but among the audience, like the lion in those hours fleeing through the streets of Ladispoli after being escaped from the circus.
SANSONETTI'S THOUGHT
Let's not talk about – speaking of those who wouldn't want to wait the four years of the congressional mandate to get rid of him – my friend Piero Sansonetti. That from the leadership of his newfound Unity he had noisily asked for Schlein's resignation on November 7th to free the party before closing it, or almost so.
Sansonetti in front of the well-crowded Roman square four days later took note, yes, of the public success achieved by the secretary but was equally "astonished" by her scale of values, problems and so on having spoken about Palestine, moreover without a lot of commitment, and also disagreed with his father, only after having criticized the government on the issue of taxation of short-term rentals. And in any case he found – again my friend Piero – those 50 thousand people gathered under the Pincio to be too few compared to the 500 thousand, or 300 thousand according to others, marching in London for free Palestine: hopefully, at least as far as my personal opinion is concerned opinion, also from the use made of it by Hamas terrorists with permission or solicitations, even in NATO – I repeat, NATO – of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Stuff that would make poor American President Joe Biden fall to the ground without even attempting to get on or off a plane, or just quicken his pace on a lawn.
THE “NEW PHASE” BETWEEN SCHLEIN, RAMA AND SCHOLZ
With the "new phase" announced in the gratifying Roman square last Saturday, Schlein has closed in the old one and thrown behind her also the tiring, to say the least, mission accomplished the day before at the congress – or quasi-congress – of European socialists in Malaga . Where not even the prudent renunciation of the temptation felt in the Democratic Party to ask for the expulsion of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for the pact just signed with the Italy of the right-wing Giorgia Meloni had been able to save her a certain isolation, or a certain marginality, on the very thorny issue of migrants. The "outsourcing" of which she complained about in the cryptic language of politics, and which materialized precisely with the Italian-Albanian agreement for the completion of asylum and international protection procedures for migrants rescued at sea by Italian ships, had instead been defended in contradictory almost directed by the German vice president of the European Parliament Katerina Barley.
The early and hasty departure from Malaga so as not to compromise participation in the street demonstration in Rome the following day, prepared with such care by her collaborators by mobilizing 170 buses and 7 extraordinary trains, then spared Schlein the chancellor's spectacle socialist himself of Germany, Olaf Sholz. Who showed up in Malaga to declare verbatim: “We will carefully follow the experiment of the centers that Italy wants to establish in Albania. What matters is to establish a solidarity mechanism in the European Union and not try to overcome the challenges alone."
It was naturally music for the distant ears of both Meloni and, or above all, the Albanian prime minister who had already gone so far as to define the Democratic Party as "crazy" for its criticism of the agreement with an Italy which for him "is neither the right nor the left, but a combination of everything it represents for me and for us Albanians: an extraordinary country with which they are inextricably linked". So "it's always an honor to be able to lend a hand when he asks us." And thank goodness that Rada stopped at "crazy", without calling the Democratic Party, like the piddino Vincenzo De Luca in Italy in other ways, "demented and rude".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/rama-scholz-schlein/ on Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:34:09 +0000.