Schlein’s advances and recoils
Schlein in the symbol of the Democratic Party? The abandoned project and the controversies. Damato's Scratches
But how, Elly, blessed girl, even if a little grown up. Why did it occur to you to put your name in the party symbol – like Silvio Berlusconi in his time and still today, after his death, with his – just after having registered "the company", as Pier Luigi Bersani called it, to the good soul by Enrico Berlinguer? Of whose unmistakable eyes, paradoxically mixed with sadness and joy, PD members this year find the photo on their membership card , perhaps destined to survive in the collection with the subsequent and previous ones.
It was a decision, this one on the use of Berlinguer's image on the 40th anniversary of his death, which also cost the secretary Piddina a lot of controversy in the post-Christian Democratic area, but not only, who hastened to book a compensatory holy card for the next few years, to chosen between Don Luigi Sturzo, Alcide De Gasperi, Aldo Moro. But also – why not? – Amintore Fanfani.
I won't go as far as Giulio Andreotti in the Pantheon of the Democratic Party partly to avoid making him turn over in his grave and partly to avoid that on this occasion a fatwa from his former great accuser still on the scene with articles and interviews. It is naturally Gian Carlo Caselli, convinced that the former Prime Minister accused of mafia was not a full but a half acquittal, mixed with an unamendable prescription. And never mind if in the meantime the so-called superior jurisdiction has warned not to mistake the statute of limitations for conviction, and practically warned other courts from repeating the mistake to which the former head of the Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office remained attached like ivy to a wall. And he polishes it himself every time some controversy offers him the opportunity, removing the dust of time from it.
Another surprising aspect of the temptation felt by Schlein, perhaps to stand the comparison with Giorgia Meloni, the antagonist with whom we are all still awaiting the direct confrontation on television promised by both, is the contradiction between the personalization inherent in the name printed in the symbol and opposition in principle, of an almost constitutional nature, to the so-called premiership being examined by the Senate, on the initiative of the government in office. Or, alternatively and even in addition, as Meloni recently said, presidentialism understood as the direct election of the President of the Republic.
Nothing personal, for goodness sake, regarding personalization, but certain things should be explored and clarified, before getting involved in controversies and political adventures of which one is then forced to always recognize the mistake too late, when it is no longer possible to remedy it for the effects it has already produced. This time, thank God, the change of heart about the symbol came quickly, but the transition remained unhappy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/avanzate-e-rinculate-di-schlein/ on Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:35:25 +0000.