The parallel competition between Conte and Schlein
The Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement are separated by less than two points in voting intentions. This explains the growing tension between Schlein and Conte. Damato's Scratches
In a survey just conducted by Alessandra Ghisleri's Euromedia – but valued by the Press for the most obvious and obvious result such as that 56.8 percent convinced that corruption has remained unchanged in the last ten years, despite being marked by multiple government majorities – it is it emerged that the Pd and the 5 Star Movement are separated by less than two points. The first is at 19.7 percent of voting intentions, the other at 17.6. It is a prison distance that explains the tension that has grown, and not at all unmentioned, now also on a personal level between Elly Schlein and Giuseppe Conte after a long season of meetings, casual and otherwise, in the square or at conferences, complete with images that represented them more or less mutually attracted, sometimes even too much so, with the hands of the former prime minister on their mouths as if to hide the perhaps too cordial words that he let slip.
A distance of less than two points in a poll can frighten those ahead and excite those behind. An overtaking for Conte would mean, in the field of the alternative to the center-right dreamed of with daydreams by the usual Pier Luigi Bersani, a greater hope of returning to Palazzo Chigi, if and when the center-right were to give up politically.
WHAT CONTE SAID
In admitting and explaining this desire that everyone has understood, even the most naive in the Democratic Party, Conte has just said, interviewed by La Stampa , regarding the recurring accusation of his opponents of having ruined public finances with building bonuses, as well as than with citizenship income: “If I had been in place of the Draghi and Meloni governments, I would have held press conferences with data in hand to monitor the costs step by step. And I would have informed citizens about all the still undisclosed data on direct, indirect and induced returns. Unfortunately we will have to wait a long time to have them: in fact, we will have to return to the government." With him at Palazzo Chigi, in fact, and with his press conferences day and night, indoors and outdoors.
THE PD'S RESPONSES
The punctiliousness, the insistence, the animosity of Conte's rise to primacy in what should or should be the common field with the Democratic Party, as wide or narrow as it can be or become, are making him unpleasant even in sectors of the party of the Nazarene who seemed better disposed towards him. “Irritant”, for example, has just had its moralizing claim recognized by Massimo D'Alema.
“In relations between allies – Rosy Bindi observed or warned in an interview, optimistically taking for granted an alliance at least every other day or in alternate areas – the only competition allowed is that of who is more unitary, not more divisive”, as Conte instead decided to be.
The most lenient remains Agazio Loiero, among the still pleased founders of the Democratic Party, writing in the Quotidiano del Sud of Conte's aspiration to return to Palazzo Chigi as "an ambition, certainly not a crime".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-concorrenza-parallela-fra-conte-e-schlein/ on Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:57:13 +0000.