The last act of Enrico Letta in the Pd
What happens in Letta's Pd. Damato's Scratches
Without going to the usual ruthlessness of Maurizio Belpietro, who on his Truth confessed that "little pain" that Enrico Letta causes him, it must be recognized that the secretary of the Democratic Party also had bad luck in the metaphor with which he wanted to conclude the last meeting of the national assembly of the party led by him, and yet "constituent" of the new one. Of which it is not yet known whether it will keep the same name or how it will change it. so much so as to make Repubblica the owner of the "leaf of the name", in fact.
Enrico Letta's unfortunate metaphor, mercilessly reproached by the Secolo XIX, was that of the early conclusion of winter and the beginning of spring on the coldest day in Rome. Where the assembly discussed and approved a new "manifesto of values" in three hours, however dismissed as a "small thing" by the candidate ahead in the polls on the race for the secretariat: Stefano Bonaccini.
"A manifesto of values without value", added Antonio Polito in an interview with Libero, Corriere della Sera editorialist, also sure – like many others – that it, already admittedly provisional, could be further modified by the new party assembly , was devised as a pretext to allow the return to the Nazarene of Bersani, D'Alema, Speranza and others who left in 2017 to escape from the then secretary Matteo Renzi, already weakened by his own due to the defeat suffered in the referendum on his constitutional reform .
In such and such an obvious abuse of words such as "new party", "refoundation" and the like, "the funeral of the currents " announced or celebrated by Repubblica is also somewhat exaggerated. With the new "manifesto of values" which openly "does not repeal" the previous one, in the hope of avoiding splits on the right threatened by the post-Christian Democrat component of the formation founded by Veltroni in 2017, one can speak more realistically, and modestly, of an elevation of the match. Or a roof terrace, perhaps to host who knows how many votes, recovering at least a part of those lost in recent years, but some other stream, in addition to those that have shared "the company" and have perhaps suggested the usual, very happy cover title dedicated by the poster to the actors and protagonists of the drama of the Nazarenes : “Spartiti”, in fact.
In this context, the San Paolo, quoted by Enrico Letta in his farewell speech from the outgoing national assembly, knows more about the heroic than about the resigned, to say, "bitterness and generosity" aside, to be locked away in a drawer in the attic of his home: "Fought the good fight, finished the race." Corriere della Sera with this quotation somehow paid him the honors of the title even though it was not flashy on the front page.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/lultimo-atto-di-enrico-letta-nel-pd/ on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:09:09 +0000.