The identity crisis of the Democratic Party guarantees the duration of the Meloni government
What does the Democratic Party say what it does not do. Paola Sacchi's note
If the game of the deputy ministers and undersecretaries being completed will serve to stabilize even more the compactness of the Meloni government, if the alarms launched from the left on the "danger" of the center-right's victory gradually break all of reality (interview of the premier yesterday with NATO secretary general Stoltenberg after the one with Biden; Berlusconi reaffirming the Euro-Atlantic axis), nothing new on the PD front.
Returning to the opposition after almost 11 years, the dem, which yesterday brought together the secretariat and today will bring together the management, are thinking of congress and primaries in March, an infinite time in politics, with the aim, announces Enrico Letta of "a new Pd ". But without a real analysis of the reasons for the defeat, continuing with the themes and approaches of the electoral campaign, as if it were not over.
While Giorgia Meloni "begins the challenge to revive Italy", as she writes on social media, the Democratic Party remembers the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome, with the appeal that reads "to never lose freedom again". Sacrosanct appeal, but with the risk of reacting to defeat by waving the specter of fascism that no longer exists against the new center-right government. A spectrum on which the premier in the Chamber has pronounced clear, definitive words, after the turning points made by Gianfranco Fini, who wanted her to be the leader of Youth Action in An, after the words of reconciliation by important leftists such as Luciano Violante.
This does not mean, of course, that the loss of freedom with the fascist dictatorship should be forgotten. A historical exponent of the right like Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, second office of the state, gives reason to Letta: "Never again loss of freedom … I would be willing to give my life for freedom".
But, the Democratic Party appears turned backwards. And this, moreover, in a climate in which serious incidents occurred at the La Sapienza University of Rome against a conference of FdI youth and a speaker such as Daniele Capezzone, former radical, right-wing liberal, author of the book “Per una nuova Destra” (Piemme), in which the ruling coalition is also invited to have a better approach, on the Anglo-Saxon model, to the issue of rights combined with the duties of individual responsibility.
The point is that the Democratic Party seems to no longer have any other tools of analysis other than the recourse to the dramas of a past that no longer exists to react to its own defeats. Matteo Renzi the day before yesterday in the Senate, for the vote of confidence in the government, had an easy game to slap his former "comrades" of a left that for years has not addressed its number one problem: identity. But identity cannot fail to go hand in hand with the issues on the country's agenda.
An agenda that has the center-right in hand and the Democratic Party is unable to decline with its real project. Hence the demonization of the opponent treated as an enemy that has lasted for 28 years, from Silvio Berlusconi to Matteo Salvini to Giorgia Meloni. Thundering tones, accusations, "bewilderment" about the raising of the cash ceiling , proposed by the Northern League economist Alberto Bagnai, welcomed by Meloni, relaunched yesterday by Matteo Salvini, who already wants it in the next maneuver. Even if the blue Giorgio Mulè says it is not a priority.
The Northern League leader, meanwhile, proceeds swiftly to work in his new role as Minister of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility. He is accelerating on the new procurement code and congratulated the new Minister of the Interior, Prefect Matteo Piantedosi, formerly his head of cabinet and proposed by him for the Interior Ministry, for the application of the line of his safety decrees against landings illegal immigration.
In short, if the government, after the trust of the parliament, begins its journey, with the emergence of expensive bills on Meloni's table in the first place, if the center-right is perfecting its compactness, moreover already consolidated by four governments together and by leadership of 14 Regions out of 20, the left appears paralyzed. Goaded and displaced by Renzi, who tries to act as a tip of the balance in a framework, however, different from the one he had aimed at. Renzi also lost the eternal bet of taking the votes of Forza Italia and above all that of provoking the non-victory of the center-right to go to a Draghi bis. But on the other hand, Giuseppe Conte is holding the Democratic Party with a pincer. Trouble and divisions on the left and its surroundings are a guarantee for the duration of the Meloni government.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-crisi-didentita-del-pd-garantisce-la-durata-del-governo-meloni/ on Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:25:01 +0000.